Readers React: Catcalls don’t deserve a response from women

To the editor: Meghan Daum’s response to the “catcalling video” of a normally dressed woman verbally barraged by “appreciative” men on the streets is remarkable. Her take on it is that the woman was too aloof by ignoring them. (“The other thing the catcalling video shows: Our detachment issues,” Op-Ed, Nov. 5)

I’m all for a less detached society, but since when does that mean anyone has the right to yell out to a complete stranger their approval with what they look like?

Public judgment implies power — at the least a psychological ownership, because you can loudly declare something desirable.

If women are no longer men’s property, how are they honored and not made to feel vulnerable if it’s OK that a man publicly judges them as desirable? Who the heck gives anyone that right?

Suvan Geer, Santa Ana

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