Really important: in all cases, react to a mistake with grace. You have learned you didn't read the situation right. That doesn't necessarily mean you've done anything terrible, but it means you didn't get this one right.
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I am really into responding to catcallers, advisable or not. Responses have included: yelling at them, cursing at them, loudly saying, "I don't like that" or "don't do that", asking them nicely to stop, stopping to have a conversation, using an airhorn.
In one of my mutual support groups recently we were talking about good verbal ways of responding to inappropriate behaviour. My suggestion which I still quite like is to just get really good at saying "What are you DOING?" in a tone of mixed horror, disgust, and bafflement.
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(In context this was actually about men responding to inappropriate behaviour from women, which we felt there were fewer good scripts for, but I think it works more broadly)
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I like it, but don't usually want to start a conversation or open the door for one in this specific case. I like it for bad internet compliments, though!
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