10 Women Explain How It Feels To Get Cat-Called On The Street

'It can be either annoying or terrifying.'

Whether you’re walking down the street, cycling or out for a jog, cat-calling is a depressingly regular occurrence for most women.

It doesn’t matter where you are, what you’re doing or what you’re wearing, it happens.

Movements such as Everyday Sexism, an online collection of sexual harassment stories, and a collection of viral catcalling social experiment videos have raised awareness around the severity and widespread nature of the issue, but nothing’s changed.

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