A WOMAN FIGHTS BACK.

I read this in Reuters today - i am not sure if this is a victory or not - but I often wonder as I am getting whistled at and crude things yelled at me, two things. 1) Why do men think they can do that to women? and 2)What do they expect the outcome of their hollering to be?

I have never stripped, but i have approached groups of men yelling and whistling and simply inquired, "were you trying to get my attention? Do you have something to say to me?" The response is usual diverting eyes and discomfort - I think this perhaps is the phenomenon of "mob mentality". I approach them, forcing individuals to be identified, and the strength of their actions is instantly diminished....hmmm....

Woman strips after wolf whistle
Thu May 22, 2008 12:56am BST

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Road workers in a small New Zealand town got their wish granted when a woman stripped saying she was fed up with their wolf-whistles.
The Israeli tourist was about to use an ATM in the main street of Kerikeri, in the far north of the country, when the men whistled, the New Zealand Press Association reported.
She calmly stripped off, used the cash machine, before getting dressed and walking away.
The woman told police she didn't take too kindly to the whistling from the men repairing the road.
"She said she had thought 'bugger them, I'll show them what I've got'," Police Sergeant Peter Masters told NZPA.
"She gave the explanation that she had been ... pestered by New Zealand men. She's not an unattractive looking lady," Masters said.
"She was taken back to the police station and spoken to and told that was inappropriate in New Zealand."
(Reporting by Adrian Bathgate; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)