I like to run in my town, and it’s a relatively low-class, rural, hillbilly type place. Perhaps a few degrees above Deliverance.  The least that has happened that would be considered “catcalling” at all would be the number of men that honk their horns when they pass me. I consider it a compliment (and sometimes I honk at runners for comaraderie’s sake, so not all honks are considered equal).  Once I passed a disabled person in a wheelchair on the sidewalk. I slowed to a walk when we passed, and he asked how I was. When I replied, “fine,” he said, “I can see that!” It made me laugh. The worst thing that happened was two teenage boys pulled over and blocked my way on the sidewalk. When I approached them, they asked me to get inside their truck to go have some “fun.” When I said “I’m old enough to be your mother,” they replied they “liked moms.” Eww. That was halfway, sort of, kind of scary. I didn’t fear any real danger, but I seriously didn’t know how to handle the situation - that one was one in a million.  I’ve got years of running in this area, one stretch of which is on one of the busiest state highways in the region, and this is all I can come up with. I don’t dodge male advances left and right and there has, at least not yet, been a rapist behind every bush. And I promise, the men around here are generally not the brightest bulbs and they don’t mind to spend the night in the county jail for a misdemeanor. I think more than a few aren’t frightened of felonies. But they somehow don’t, as a whole, bother women. My worst experience was with the redneck equivalent of Beavis and Butthead, so there’s that.  So where are all these men who anecdotally harass women all of the time? Not just the fatties, but ANY woman? Where are they? I want to see them in action! I only used my town as an example because it’s so blue-collar and one would suspect that sort of shenanigan would be rampant here. I’ve run all over my tri-state region - 99 percent of which I did completely alone and probably 40 percent in the dark - and my biggest problem has been, and always will be, finding good tunes.