Code for wolf whistling
July 29th, 2012 at 10:07 am by David FarrarBeck Eleven at The SST reports:
Wolf whistles from building sites might seem long gone, but workers have developed a new code to alert each other to passing women.
The classic “whit-woo” indicating a female passer-by is an industry no-no, with wolf-whistlers given warnings and moved to other sites.
But workers, who declined to be named because their contracts forbid them speaking to the media, have confirmed codes exist to communicate the presence of women walking past.
“We might yell something like, ‘Wayne’s at the gate’,” one said.
Another identified “Anyone got a spanner?” was their code.
Wolf whistling is rather primitive and aggressive, but I don’t think you are ever going to stop blokes alerting other blokes to the presence of an attractive person. And if it is done in a non-obvious way, I can’t say I see any harm.
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July 29th, 2012 at 10:20 am
“Wadya got in your nail gun”
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 10:22 am
How is it different than Ladies Nights out? Ooogling the Chippendales.
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 10:27 am
Let me get this straight. A nice looking woman walks past a construction site and instead of a complimentary whistle, she gets a “Anyone got a spanner”? thrown at her?
How demeaning to the fairer sex.
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 10:34 am
“Wolf whistling is rather primitive and aggressive”
Spoken like a true pussy whipped urban liberal eunuch.
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 10:39 am
I even agree with Red. What bollocks.
Women love compliments, it can hardly be threatening when the whistler is 4 levels up on a construction site.
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 10:43 am
“Spoken like a true pussy whipped urban liberal eunuch.”
Redbaiter whips his dick out in public and openly masturbates when he sees someone he considers attractive.
It is his highest form of compliment and anyone who disagrees is a marxist.
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 10:44 am
Nothing wrong with the friendly whistle or comment, but some blokes spoiled it by being rude and crude so now, in banning the practice altogether, the “baby’s been chucked out with the bathwater” as they say. Typical.
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 10:53 am
“Wolf whistling is rather primitive and aggressive, but I don’t think you are ever going to stop blokes alerting other blokes to the presence of an attractive person.”
I love the politically-correct gender-neutral ‘attractive person’.
Vote:Chomsky was right…
The one who “owns” the language of public discourse ‘owns’ the politcal debate.
July 29th, 2012 at 11:03 am
o a
I picked that too.
Personally I consider the practise down right rude. It’s like staring,rude.
Vote:There are certain races and cultures where physical assault like bum pinching,touching,elbowing etc on the fairer sex is seen as OK,
Egypt and Italy are said to be right up there.Wolf whistling is on the same continuum,just further down the scale.
July 29th, 2012 at 11:06 am
There must be something we can do about this.
Vote:Regulate ,that’s it, regulate.Lets ban wolf whistling.I mean someone may take offence and we can’t have that.
The anti wolf whistling law.
Come to think of it lets ban waving.Or smiling.
Plenty of possibilities.
July 29th, 2012 at 11:16 am
Kowtow- “Personally I consider the practise down right rude.”
Plain old “rude” just don’t cut it these days K.
If you can’t work the politically correct angle, you won’t get anywhere.
ie aggressive, primitive, offensive, and of course, (as others have pointed out), attractive person
Sickening.
PS, thanks for the laugh Owl. So true.
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 11:18 am
I’m with redbaiter, kowtow, other_andy and all the other troglodytes on this one.
How dare anyone stop us objectifying women. Its not like they’re real people, is it? Just a life support system for a cunt.
Do these “people” have mothers, sisters, daughters? I doubt any of those knuckle draggers have ever had a decent relationship with any woman. All of them would be well at home with Islam.
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 11:19 am
While working on a construction site a worker wolf whistled at a women walking past.
Vote:He was instantly dismissed for sexual harassment.
July 29th, 2012 at 11:24 am
“I love the politically-correct gender-neutral ‘attractive person’.”
Isn’t every man regularly on the receiving end of public wolf-whistles and only-half-joking sexual badinage from fecund, firm-breasted young women?
No?
Just me then.
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 11:26 am
It should really be called samizdat, since it has been created for much the same reason.
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 11:27 am
Red is right at 10.34.
I reckon most of the noise about wolf whistles is made by the bull duke lesbians who are so jelous and will never get a compliment unless it comes from another mac truck lookalike
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 11:27 am
That’s funny coming from the kind of Marxist who has over the last few decades so denigrated the role of motherhood that the birth rate in western culture is at crisis point.
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 11:28 am
“Just a life support system for a cunt.”…mirror.
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 11:35 am
Sorry-
my comment at 11:27 was in reply to Luke Mutton’s at 11:18.
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 11:43 am
Whistling is a compliment paid mostly by men to women who have made an effort to look good.most women try.
It is not much differant than people clapping after a good performance or speech.
The only people who would be complaining about this are feminists or the males who are lead around by feminists – the public service metrosexuals.
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 11:45 am
Red you are so much nicer when on occasions you are right.
The reason its died out is that men don’t learn to whistle anymore.
The men who went into the army all learnt to whistle on route marches and their sons born after the war and before IPods etc used to whistle as they worked having learnt fromn their Dads.
Seldom do we hear that now as most have fucking ipods stuck in their lugs listening to shit rap or so called music.
Occasionally I will go to a house and in the background there is someone happy in his work whistling. Always its an older guy. Always.
Pity really because guys that whistle are almost invariably happy doing what they are.
Even I still whistle when working (not tuneful) but a display of feeling happy at work.
Try it.
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 11:49 am
@wat
“Just me then.”
How do you put up with all the attention from the ‘fecund, firm-breasted young women’?
Vote:It must be a real burden.
July 29th, 2012 at 11:57 am
Kowtow – “Personally I consider the practise down right rude.”
I agree. It can be very embarrassing on the receiving end, particularly with the sort of comments and behaviour that often accompanies it.
It’s a shame that rules have to even be considered to limit this sort of behaviour, peer pressure would be a much better way of dealing with it.
It’s worth noting there are far fewer rules against polite and decent behaviour.
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 12:04 pm
Youre so boring PG..borriinngg! I bet you reuse teabags .
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 12:08 pm
I don’t drink tea. And speaking up against boorish behaviour isn’t boring, some boofhead will usually oblige.
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 12:12 pm
What a joke.
Society is going down the tube spiritually, morally and economically in a manner that emulates the Titanic disaster, and some people are getting all twisted out of shape over wolf whistling.
Jesus this liberal/ progressive syndrome of the last forty years has so totally fucked up the western world.
Do the commies writing here realise there’s a very real possibility you’ll be fighting each other for a loaf of bread in a decade or two?
Or maybe even sooner.
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 12:16 pm
PG#
“…..It can be very embarrassing on the receiving end, particularly with the sort of comments and behaviour that often accompanies it….’
That’s a differant matter again.
“…..It’s worth noting there are far fewer rules against polite and decent behaviour…”
That PG goes to the heart of the matter – some women like having doors opened for them and some don’t.Likewise, some women like being whistled at and some don’t.Neither, in their own ways, are abusive.
For the feminists and nancyboys to suggest that whistling is a form of verbal abuse – like fowl language – is ridiculous.The only reason these people come to this conclusion is that whistling is from the likes of a construction site, or a motor vechical, both of which are transient in nature and consist of males who are not products of feminism – metrosexuals: people who use and in some cases reuse teabags!
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 12:17 pm
I worked construction for 20 years ….
Vote:A group of guys holding up score cards were thrown off a job …. it was a very attractive young lady that complained…
Ya just cant please em!
July 29th, 2012 at 12:30 pm
I personally like “I’ll buy that for a dollar”, but I do watch too many 80s flicks.
I had a car of 14 year old girls going to a hockey tourney the other week. They were talking and referring to themselves and other girls as chicks. I mentioned that when I was young in the 70s we called girls chicks but the word was deemed to be offensive and objectifying to women and had largely fallen out of fashion. They said “That is so 80s. So gay” I couldn’t have agreed more.
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 12:33 pm
I don’t whistle at chicks, I just simply make eye contact and smile whether in a bar, party or in a shopping mall. If she smiles back, then I sensed that may be she’s quite friendly. If she kept the eye contact back, then I’ll walk up and say hi & start chatting her up. Sometimes, after chatting her up, she said she’s married or waiting for her boyfriend at a shopping mall. Sometimes a smile at a chick at I get finger back. I find that the ugly chicks who usually give me a finger. Perhaps, in their mind, they think I was joking of having them on, perhaps since they’re undesirable, it would have been a miracle if a guy smiles or winks at them.
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 12:52 pm
What a load of rubbish.
Vote:Called Newspaper Padding when their is nothing more to put in.
July 29th, 2012 at 2:01 pm
this was worth a news story / blog post
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 2:10 pm
Primitive? C’mon DPF, you need to leave Wellington more often.
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 2:37 pm
Yep Paulus.
Vote:I suspect very few people wolf-whistle.
However, this is just a reminder from some of the politician-journalist-blogger-commentators to show how enlightened, intellectually morally and socially superior they are. The plebs and the hoi polio need to be reminded that they are knuckle dragging Repuglian and backwards thinking idiots that can’t be trusted to do the right thing.
This is why the enlightened and intellectually morally and socially superior politicians-journalists-bloggers-commentators don’t trust ‘the rest’ to make the right decisions.
They flood the domain, steer the discussions, filter the facts and, when the hoi poloi doesn’t want to budge, legislate to make sure that they don’t have a say. The intellectually morally and socially superior politician-journalist-blogger-commentator knows what is best for you.
Resistance is futile.
July 29th, 2012 at 3:25 pm
wat dabney:Isn’t every man regularly on the receiving end of public wolf-whistles and only-half-joking sexual badinage from fecund, firm-breasted young women?
I get public wolf-whistles and similar behaviour, usually from schoolgirls.
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 4:23 pm
We used to have a secretary who was pretty good. we called her spanner face.
Everytime you saw her face your nuts tightened…………………
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 5:27 pm
I think it was Deborah Coddington who said that at her age every wolf whistles a compliment. As a guy I have received the odd saucy comment from Women in public…..and grinned like an idiot for the rest of the day.
……the “Nice bum!” I got years back when helping some older ladies load their shopping into their car still warms this Scorned heart in wistful nostalgic moments…
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 5:36 pm
+1
Vote:July 29th, 2012 at 6:45 pm
Viking2
Vote:My 21 yr old son whistles a lot. I am not sure where he picked it up. He always sounds happy when whistling.
July 29th, 2012 at 8:31 pm
For me its a personal thing. Some like it, some love it, some hate it. And as such, we should err on the side of caution. Me, I love it.
During my last overnight run, I was changing out of shorts and into tights, in what I thought was a quiet back stretch of road, leaning up against an old building. Because of disorientation and being on the road for a couple of hours, things were taking longer than usual. Was in the process of hauling tights on up sweaty legs, always bloody hard, when car with two women in it pulled in, around 2AM – I was literally caught in the headlights.
One leaned out the window, whistled and clapped, and then asked if I delivered.
I didn’t stop smiling as I ran through the night, for around 2 hours I reckon
Vote:July 30th, 2012 at 2:28 am
your column used to have some relevance Farrar,
Vote:now it is yellow rag trash
July 30th, 2012 at 7:28 am
Hey pq —> doors that way. Feel free to fuck off
Vote:July 30th, 2012 at 9:44 am
SHOW US YER TITS!
Vote:July 30th, 2012 at 10:10 am
Hmmokrightitis….
PQ is sort of correct. For a serious blog one wonders if catering to the wants of the worlds airheads is really smart. If that keeps up then the relevance of the site sorts of drops off – fast. It sort of starts to enter into the realm of places like red alert etc – which are mostly full of shit and only good for a laugh or to feel insulted………..
Vote:July 30th, 2012 at 10:28 am
Years ago, I used to work at an iconic (now defunct) fast food chain.
The front counter had 4 shared cash registers – they were labelled 1A/1B, 2A/2B, etc
A call from the back of the pie bin of 1B Four Nine [Register, Place in Queue, Score], would bring many a leering teen forward for a better view of said hottie in the queue.
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