Let me holla at ya: the decline of flirting etiquette

When did taunting a woman as she walks by pass for flirting? What women swoon over men who yell backhanded compliments out their cars as they creep by?

I'm under no delusion that men have ever exercised the best etiquette when it comes to flirting. Part of the problem is that few fathers ever take their sons aside and teach them the proper ways to approach women. Growing up, I admittedly even remember seeing guys whistle at women from a distance. Still, the conversational skills of the average man seem to be at an all time low. This realization became all too clear last week when two groups of men attempted to pick me up by shouting at me.