{"id":32875,"date":"2017-05-04T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T09:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/?p=32875"},"modified":"2017-05-03T12:12:31","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T16:12:31","slug":"catcalling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lovejoyfeminism\/2017\/05\/catcalling.html","title":{"rendered":"No, Mentioning Being Catcalled Is Not a “Humblebrag”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

During a conversation about oversharing on Facebook, a friend sent me a link to an article titled 7 Ways to Be Insufferable on Facebook<\/a>. I didn\u2019t agree\u00a0with everything in the article\u2014I thought the author was a bit hard on people at times\u2014but I found it an interesting read. It\u00a0made me think about the purpose of Facebook posts\u2014how do we decide what we post, and why? But then a section brought me up short.<\/p>\n

1b) The Undercover Brag<\/strong><\/p>\n

Description:\u00a0Like the blatant brags above except behind a frail disguise. This includes all\u00a0humblebrags<\/a>, indirect brags, brags disguised as a rant, etc.<\/p>\n

Examples:<\/p>\n

\u2014Apparently they now give PhDs to frauds and drunks. What a time to be alive!\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

\u2014I\u2019ll be traveling for the summer if anyone knows someone looking to sublease a Soho apartment in July and August.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

\u2014On my walk home from work, I was whistled at twice, honked at twice, and one car almost caused an accident slowing down to stare at me. Sometimes I really hate men.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Core reasons for posting:\u00a0Image Crafting, Jealousy Inducing<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What. The. Hell?<\/em><\/p>\n

I hadn\u2019t checked who wrote the piece, so at this point I scrolled up. Tim Urban. The website\u2019s about section uses he\/him pronouns. It figures.<\/p>\n

In case you\u2019re not following, have a look at the last example Urban uses of what a humblebrag\u2014an indirect brag\u2014might look like when posted on Facebook:<\/p>\n

On my walk home from work, I was whistled at twice, honked at twice, and one car almost caused an accident slowing down to stare at me. Sometimes I really hate men.\u00a0<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do you know what this means? It means if Urban saw that posted on Facebook, he\u2019d think it was a humblebrag. The frustrating thing is that I can imagine any one of a number of my Facebook friends posting exactly that, in complete seriousness. Being catcalled isn\u2019t fun. It\u2019s scary. When women vent about being catcalled, that is what they are doing\u2014venting<\/em>. They are not bragging!<\/p>\n

But\u2014apparently\u2014Urban honestly does not know that.<\/p>\n

And that, to be frank, is scary, both because it means that Urban likely engages in catcalling himself and because it means he wouldn\u2019t step in to stop it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not that I didn\u2019t know this was an issue. Clearly, I did. There are many many many men out there who think that catcalling a woman is the same as paying her a compliment. There are numerous awareness-raising campaigns that have focused on changing this perception, but there is still much work to be done. I suppose it just struck me because I wasn\u2019t expecting to be smacked in the head with this when reading an article about Facebook and social media posting.<\/p>\n

I have a <\/b>Patreon<\/b><\/a>! Please support my writing!<\/b><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not that I didn’t know this was an issue. Clearly, I did. There are many many many men out there who think that catcalling a woman is the same as paying her a compliment. There are numerous awareness-raising campaigns that have focused on changing this perception, but there is still much work to be done.<\/p>\n

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