“How do men respond to these idealized versions of sexpots? As it happens, not very well. This attitude drips down to a street level. Catcalling happens everywhere, but there is a huge difference between leering and hollering like a hyena. Every dude who comes here seems to think it’s okay to act like a royal douche to everyone he encounters, women especially. More than once, I’ve been asked, ‘Oh, you’re from Las Vegas? Were you on a stripper scholarship?’ Because so many girls living in this shitty excuse of a city actually strip to pay tuition. As a kid, I remember driving past billboards featuring vacant-eyed, bobble-headed women with advertising copy that read: ‘OUR GIRLS DO IT ALL’ and ‘LOOSEST SLOTS AND SLUTS IN TOWN.’”