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It would be startling if the number were less than 70%.

I was gonna say, regardless of the reason, I've never met a woman who hasn't been harassed in some way or form while jogging/running/working out.

Or just walking. The number of times I get harassed when wearing “lounge clothes” is astonishing. It doesn’t matter what we do or what we wear men think we want their commentary on our looks at all times. I’ve changed my route many times bc of creeps.

Walking onto a plane, going through the first class cabin

Why do you run alone? In unpopulated remote areas where there are no other people WHEN this keeps happening over & over ? I don’t get it

1) women should no be obligated to live in the buddy system. 2) who said anything about unpopulated remote areas? I run in New York City and am catcalled every time I exercise. Witnesses are no deterrent.

In my experience I'm more likely to be harassed when running on a treadmill at a gym than running in the park - sure, there's coyotes and rattlesnakes and a mountain lion there, but after 8 years they've been more respectful of my desire not interact with them than human men.

Seriously. The more men there are around, the more likely you are to be harassed. There are a lot less people period out in the sticks.

What’s startling about this is that people are surprised.

I was going to say, startling for who? People that don't talk to women?

We should not be harassed, but why we pick the loneliest street, the deepest forest, the latest and darkest hours to jog and run, when by now we are aware we at the top of the food chain for human animals and even wild animals.

And if we;re on a crowded street, we get harassed by packs of men, in broad daylight. It's NOT the location, the activity, the clothing, the numbers: It's the MEN WHO BEHAVE BADLY. AND it's the men who don't notice the others doing this, and don't call it out.

And the men who keep protecting the men who harass and catcall and intimidate women. It doesn't matter WHERE I run; it doesn't matter what I wear. Also, a quiet running trail has fewer catcallers, just saying.

Yeah i run during the day in my city on routes with plenty of other runners. This is safe enough, apart from the occasional catcallers and men coming up to cycle next to you very slowly to leer that I’ve learned to ignore. Whenever I get to run in nature it is blissfull peace.

I walked to the corner store and back while wearing a shirt that said "I took a good poop today" and someone still made noises at me like they were sucking my breasts while they drove around the corner at a stoplight.

Is it really that hard treating women with basic dignity and respect? Am I secretly amazing at something that takes me literally no effort to do, or do we men just suck as a baseline and I happened to land on the high end of that particular spectrum?

Odds are you were taught to respect women. My Dad was. My husband was. I have a LOT of dude friends and they were. It has to be a conscious teaching because society doesn’t encourage it.

I'm sure that's at least part of it. But, as far as I'm concerned, I just treat women as human beings equal to myself, and if I happen to find them attractive, good for me, I keep that to myself unless directly asked.