I'm editing a reply I gave in another thread (in response to the lowest ranked comment) ... I'm honestly curious about the various Pills' takes on the cultural aspect of cat-calling:

I've lived all over the US, in both rural (southern Illinois) and urban (Manhattan and Jersey City) areas. [Cat-calling generally] doesn't happen in rural areas, but think about why - there isn't nearly the amount of foot traffic in those areas. There's also a homogenized culture that tends to discourage it in men (anglo chivalry).

In urban areas, [it happens frequently]. I was catcalled daily - especially in Jersey City, which had a huge Hispanic population (for whatever reason, certain Southern and Central American cultures, among others, are way more accepting of this behavior).

But it wasn't limited to there - send any somewhat attractive 20 something woman on a walk past a construction zone, and see what happens. On the subway, on the PATH, on the street. That's not even getting into places like bars, where it's somewhat expected.

A big part of it was that I didn't own a car in the city, so if I wanted to go somewhere, I was a pedestrian. I had to come into closer contact with other people just to get to work.

The other part is that urban areas don't have that homogenized culture, so you're interacting with small groups that have totally different ideas of "acceptable" behavior.

All of that is not to say that I think all men, or all minority men, are catcalling douchecanoes (one of my fondest "strangers are nice" memories is of two gentlemen on the subway who managed to get my attention and let me know that a guy standing over me was taking pictures down my blouse. I snapped his flip phone in half). It's a small segment of the male population, albeit a very vocal one.