This girl took selfies with her catcallers and they still didn’t take a damn hint

Maybe it's a whistle and a "hey, baby," or maybe it's a full-fledged profession of love. Either way, getting catcalled is enough to make you want to dissolve off the face of the planet and rip a man's throat out at the same damn time.

You want to say or do something to tell the stranger who yelled at you to fuck the fuck off. But you also don't want to put yourself in a dangerous situation. Noa Jansma, a 20-year-old student in the Netherlands, found another way to send that message: She created an Instagram account, @dearcatcallers, and documented incidents with a selfie beside the man (or men) who bothered her on the street.

Over the course of 30 days, Jansma took 24 pictures documenting 24 incidents of street harassment.

In many of the pictures, the catcallers are grinning or waving at the camera, but Jansma is stone-faced in every single shot.

“They honestly think that they're complimenting me,” Jansma told Buzzfeed News. “They really didn't care about me. They never realized that I was unhappy.”

Jansma also added that she declined to take pictures of certain instances when she was harassed out of fear for her personal wellbeing. “Of course, my safety is more important than this project," she said. "I didn't take photos when I was catcalled in the dark, in little streets."

Now that the 30-day project has come to an end, Jansma hopes to pass the account on to other women so that they can document their own experiences with street harassment.

“To show that it’s a global phenomenon and that this art-project is not only about me, I’ll pass-on the account to different girls around the world,” she wrote in her final post to the account.

This is not the first time that someone attempted to combat street harassment by documenting it and posting the results online.

In 2014, a video titled “10 Hours of Walking in NYC as a Woman” went viral. The clip is a supercut of various men approaching a woman as she walks through the streets of New York.

Though it received criticism for showing a disproportionate amount of men of color approaching the woman in question, it was widely commended as a realistic look at the harassment women face in public spaces.

Unfortunately, the people this message, that catcalling is a real and persistent problem, resonates with the most are also the people who already knew that: women. Until the men who catcall are able to examine and fix their own bad behavior, the #dearcatcallers tag that Jansma started will remain all too active, flush with pictures of men smiling and flashing the thumbs-up sign.

@k80way