Anonymous asked: In response to john-roman, you said: "Creepiness happens when etc...". I may be wrong, and correct me otherwise, however your list sounds an awful lot like people on the autistic spectrum. It seems you're implicitly conflating a willful ignorance to sexism with a genuine inability to understand social cues, the latter of which is extremely distressing to a person on the spectrum. I think you need to be clearer on that. I'm by no means excusing sexism, I just thought I'd point that out.
It wasn’t my intention to conflate the two; thanks for pointing it out. Note, though, that I wasn’t trying to say that sexism and creepiness are always the same thing. Someone can come off as creepy simply because they continually stand too close for comfort, reapproaching every time you try to back away - I once had a boss who used to do that, for instance. It wasn’t a sexist act, just an extremely discomfiting one. Neither am I saying that ignorance of sexism is always willful - most of the time, in fact, I’d argue it’s subconscious. Men don’t catcall to be sexist; they genuinely think it’s appropriate behaviour. The whole problem with sexism being unconscious is that nobody, regardless of their views on gender, goes around boasting about being sexist: rather, we simply fail to make the connection between our beliefs and actions and gender bias.