I am familiar with my own experience, but I needed some outside perspective. The women spoke to me about 'priopos', a cultural concept that includes flattery as part of the culture without the taint of disrespect. The women also felt that the disrespecting of women by men, sometimes their own men, was a problem that we have to live with. If we ignore the men then we are called snobs, if we respond then we are loose. Socialization rewards aggressiveness in men and passivity in women.
Society has no compunction about prostituting women to sell products.
Society then rewards women monetarily, but we all suffer. A woman is important in terms of her parts, legs, breasts and thighs, sort of like a chicken. This compartmentalization of a human being can only lead to the devaluing of that woman. Here is what the men I spoke to had to say for themselves. They thought it inconceivable that we would not find their hoots and hisses complimentary.