This Playboy Guide To Catcalling Someone Is Actually Pretty Spot-On

Who would have thought that the most legit advice on how to catcall someone would come from a magazine founded by a creepy old guy and best known for its nude centerfolds?!

This 2014 chart from Playboy, which resurfaced this Thursday on reddit, walks men through a series of questions to help them figure out whether or not they should catcall a woman.

Basically, unless you know the woman personally and you've both consented to shouting sexually suggestive comments at each other in public — OR if the female in question is a cat — don't catcall her.

Here's the breakdown:

That wasn't so hard, right?

As ATTN notes, catcalling has been deemed a form of street harassment. According to a 2015 study from an anti-street harassment organization and Cornell University, 84 percent of women are catcalled by the time they turn seventeen (!) and 13 percent of women have been catcalled since before they turned ten (!!!).

“People don’t want to recognize that this starts really young,” said Debjani Roy, deputy director of the organization, in an interview with the NY Daily News. “The emotional impact it has as girls develop is quite significant.”

At best, street harassment is obnoxious and gross, but at worst it can be deadly. Just this January, a woman going home from a Pittsburgh bar was shot in the chest and killed by a man after she turned down his advances. And in 2014, a Detroit woman was shot three times after she refused to give a man her phone number. She later died from her injuries.

"(Street harassment) is annoying. Sometimes it's terrifying. When it's been threatening enough times ... the benign annoying (feeling) begins to elicit the same physiological response as the threatening, "I'm going to be gang raped in this alley" type," one female reddit user wrote in the thread below the chart. "Even though your intentions are funny ... for some women it can be downright panic-inducing."

Other female — and even some male — users agreed.

"I've never been catcalled as a guy by a woman, but if it happened I wouldn't care because most women don't pose a threat to me physically," one guy wrote. "But if a guy did it, I'd have a frisson of concern how this could escalate. I'd hate it to happen to me all the time in that case."

"When you have men muttering/yelling degrading things like, 'Bet you could suck hella dick with those lips' (which I have experienced), that is not a compliment," another female user wrote. "Making a comment of 'Wow, you're beautiful' is more like a compliment, but women can't even say 'thank you' without some men taking that as an invitation to harass them even more."

"This is something that needs to stop, and the only way it will stop is when other men call these 'complimenters' out on their shit," she added.