One might think that classy events attract only classy people but, sadly, that is not the case. Recently, I was photographing a wine tasting event in Austin, TX. I was trying to cover an overall room shot to show how many people were attendance but I kept encountering this obstacle: a young man repeatedly made lewd remarks directly at me. Aside from the fact that this douchebag was being rude and offensive, he was ruining my shots! I had to keep reshooting it until he got bored and stopped!
This experience reminded me of something that happened a couple weeks ago. I went to a photography opening in New York City where I expected to meet lots of fabulous, cultured people. I did, in fact, have a conversation about art with a nice woman until we were interrupted. Two German men came up to us and started talking to us in the middle of my sentence. He was clearly a little drunk and said, "What are you two lovely ladies talking about?" I responded, "We WERE talking about art." He vaguely apologized but then continued to interupt our conversation. We finally decided to go to the bar to get a drink in order to get away from them. I was clearly going to need a drink if I was going to enjoy this event.
After a whole series of older men hitting on me and various other woman (in only pathetic, not offensive ways) I accidentally walked by the two German men again. They called out, "hey there baby!", and as I walked quickly passed them, pretending to look at the photography they hollared, "see anything you like here!??? I got cat called in a "classy" photography reception! I thought about taking their picture for this blog but I couldn't risk any extra attention it might draw.
At the end of the reception I walked out with a fellow photographer who happened to be male. It didn't stop the same two men from yelling at me again after I walked out the door. They were sauced and standing outside right by the door harassing me and probably multiple other woman. UNREAL!
Please, if you have any cat call stories or photos of these ridiculous people, please submit them to this blog! Thanks!
