Catcalling seems like something that would vary by culture. If some cultures consider it a standard form of compliment, is that ok?
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and further; if we fail to acknowledge this, are we being ignorant and discriminatory against people from those cultures when we judge them?
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It's easy to marginalize most sexism and racism and -ism as cultural differences. Fine line, slippery slope.
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Many cultures disrespect,discriminate against women often to extremes.Should we accept that behavior in our culture?Catcalling is disrespect
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many cultures consider the total subjugation of women to be standard practice...
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I would think if catcalling were equally utilized and accepted by both sexes in a culture, that makes it ok.
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ironically, yes. difference is the culture that does catcalls is dudebros, and no one likes them.
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I feel like everyone missed your bigger point here—that maybe sexism isn’t an objective standard that US feminists have the rights to
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I would say it depends on how the culture handles it. If it's a standard thing and everyone is used to it then I see no problem with it