‘Catcalling’ now academic course

Catcalling now is being studied at a university alongside physics, English, economics and philosophy.

At St. Louis University, a Catholic institution no less.

The report comes from The College Fix, which explained the new course will include current efforts to make catcalling a crime as well as “how public streets are shaped by white privilege, feminism, imperialism and intersectionality.”

As part of the unversity’s required volunteer program, the class spends eight weeks examining societal influences on public streets, four weeks on catcalling and four more weeks on urban policing and riots.

The instructor, Candis Bond, told The College Fix that catcalling is “whistling or saying something unwanted” toward a woman in the street.

See what American education has become, in “Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children.”

“A serious academic endeavor?” questioned the publication.

Bond said, according to the report, that the topic has been examined by legal scholars, and women and gender studies professors.

“A lot people write about street harassment from the perspective of the law because a lot of people are trying to make a lot of actions actually illegal so they would hold up in court,” she said.

She said catcalling is all about sexism.

“They see catcalling as a symptom of living in a patriarchal culture that makes women’s bodies sexually available whenever they’re in a public space; so that’s kind of where they’re coming from,” she said.

The report said the course reading includes novels and looks at the concepts from a literary perspective.

It teaches the streets are “a violent place shaped by societal factors, which are often not seen by those with ‘privilege,’” the report said.

“As walkers and users of public urban space, it is easy to overlook the shaping influence of the street, especially if we hold a place of privilege within society,” according to the syllabus. “Yet, the streets are not innocent: they disseminate – if quietly – the values of our culture, the laws of our institutions, and the perceptions and beliefs of individual users.”

Bond explained the topic comes out of her own experience living in different cities.

“Basically, the idea is that the streets are public space [and] are not neutral. So, they are political constructs in the sense that there are different institutions or social structures that influence the physical shape of our streets,” she said.

See what American education has become, in “Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children.”

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