I was walking to the train station after work today and I heard a guy’s voice shouting:
“Hey! Hey pretty, you’re so pretty, come here!
Come here, aren’t you going to give me a kiss? Yeah, you, come on and give me a smooch, you pretty thing!”
Disgusted, I turned around, ready to knock some heads together, and saw he was talking to a tiny French bulldog being walked by another man.
And it hit me, with sharp clarity, just how much a man catcalling a woman sounds like a man talking to a dog.
There’s literally no distinction.