There was a time when this was a compliment. For you how does it feel ? Disrespectful? or a compliment?

@PoetryNEmotion Actually the manners thing is not entirely accurate, it is often more a case that men are too scared to make a comment for fear of ending up ina court.
Manners as a whole across the world seem to be on the wain, I find younger people are far more rude and disrespectful.

@Longleggedlady Cat calling is not desirable to me. I cannot speak for women who need that attention. I would rather a man say that I look beautiful then to whistle and to yell.

@PoetryNEmotion I wasn't referring specifically to those forms, I too prefer the gentleman to say that I look nice the point I was making is that it is getting to the point where they no longer even do that for fear of it being read as harassment.
I had a young woman working for us at one stage that one of the electrians old enough to be her dad complain that he had harrassed her all he had said was that she had nice hair.
I actually heard the man say it, to her. She wrote a complaint form out and gave it in to me and I tore it up and put it in the wastepaper bin.

@Longleggedlady People take offense where there is none. It becomes ridiculous. The world is in chaos.

@PoetryNEmotion Manners don’t exist now. They are an abominable mess & this applies to both genders

@xbandoleerx People forget the basics work. They are the foundation. The building blocks. I care not what others do. I have manners. I cannot change others.

@Longleggedlady thats the way to go. The right way to handle non-issues.

@PoetryNEmotion I am sorry for I should have been clear to mention that i was referring to the upcoming ones.
I believe we could not deliver ourselves in the right manner

@Longleggedlady I consider being whistled at extremly disrespectful and I would not feel comfortable at all same goes for any random compliment of a man especially when the age difference is big. Especially if it's just based on looks which is kinda superficial.

How someone perceives such interactions depends on personal history (maybe with pushy men or even sexual harrassment). I just think men shouldn't give random compliments or catcall women.
In a world in which femizides and domestic violence still occur far to often (each time is too much already) and in which partriarchal structures still exist (in some countries more in others less) men should be able to life with the fear that some women might not take kindly to random compliments.