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Everyone Loved the Warm Weather This Week, Including Creepy Dudes

By DNAinfo Staff | March 12, 2015 3:30pm
 Visitors to Washington Square Park soak up the warm weather on the first day of spring, March 20, 2012.
Visitors to Washington Square Park soak up the warm weather on the first day of spring, March 20, 2012.
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NEW YORK CITY — Like daffodils that sprout through the snow at the first sign of spring, so does the winter thaw welcome back another rite of the season: catcalling.

Ladies who have shed heavy layers in the warm temperatures this week took to Twitter, welcoming in the spring weather while calling out men for the ramp up in street harassment. 

There's not much research out there about street harassment, but studies suggest that about 65 percent of women experience it at some point in their lives.

"Harassers do, of course, work year round," wrote Hugo Schwyzer, an author who focuses on gender equality, in an essay about street harassment for Jezebel. "But at the same time, most of us recognize the harassment seems to get much worse when warm weather hits and women's fashions become more revealing."

Last fall, legions of commenters came out for and against the infamous street harassment video that recorded a woman's experience of getting cat-called over 10 hours of walking New York City streets.

Could this season's predicted pollen vortex will keep the creeps at bay? Not likely, but we can hope.

Have you already witnessed street harassment this season? Tell us in the comments.