To think that wolf whistling wasn't such a bad thing?

I don't think it's necessarily a generational thing. I'm a boomer and I've never thought it was acceptable. My friend who is two years younger thinks women distressed by unwanted male attention are "snowflakes". And yes,, before anyone asks, I did challenge her. She also thinks many women who report rape are lying.

Girls in riding gear ( close fitting so as not to rub) also do not want to be catcalled.
It’s not appropriate and Intelligent men who have emotional intelligence wouldn’t do it.

Have we got to the bit where women share how old they were when first wolf whistled while crossing the highway to buy mum some milk?
I was ten.

I worked somewhere where wolf whistles escalated to threats of anal rape for me at work... which I tried to ignore till it got too much.
When I reported it, I had fully grown men calling me a b!Tch in their 50s saying they get the sack caused of me.

Forced me out of a job I'd just got promoted to and left the company because I didn't feel safe.

So no, I don't agree.

No, it was creepy and gross.
Men don't have the right to 'judge' women in this way, to harass women this way, to intimidate women this way, and that's what they're doing. Treating women as lesser beings to be judged by men as 'worthy sexually' to men or not.

That whole mindset can only exist built on foundations of agreeing that a woman's purpose is for the benefit of men, for decoration and sexual gratification. Whether taking it as a compliment or slappling the unwanted hand away, the idea that it "isn't too bad" requires all women to be second class citizens whose acceptability and power is graded according to appearance, whilst men (the real humans) get to thrive or not on the basis of intelligence and talent.

Definitely.
He was on his own in the car as well, so not even saying it to be funny to another man.

Not so great for the 10, 11 and 12 year olds who wear dresses or leggings and crop tops though, is it?

99% of 'boomers like this' pushed back, got page 3 banned, got things like the Considerate Construction code off the ground, went to work in construction (though not enough of us to be fair) and told enough men to fuck off that wolf whistling has now become largely a thing of the past.

Joanna Lumley doesn't speak for me or for most people our age.

I tried to report sexual abuse in school to my male head of year.
I ended up having to spend the rest of the day in the corridor as punishment for using inappropriate language (wank) while trying to describe what this man had done with his hand.
I didn't report it when it happened again.

I never minded the wolf whistles, I never had any "get your tits out" comments because I've always been pretty much flat chested and the only actual comment I remember was "marry me!" from one builder. But I was in my late teens/20s when that happened, not a young girl and I didn't get any disgusting or inappropriate comments made by the whistlers.
I hated the unwanted hand on bum and leg thing though, haven't thought about it for decades but it happened so much you sort of got used to slapping men's hands away. Fortunately for me none of it was threatening but of course it's better to live in a society where women shouldn't have to deal with unwanted attention from men and men should never feel they have a right to touch a female without her permission.
I get what Joanna Lumley is saying because presumably she herself didn't mind and had no negative effects from it. However if she thinks her attitude should apply to all women then she is completely wrong.

It was bad. It was relentless. Being bothered, leered at, constant commentary, eugh!

Women had the shit knocked out of them back then as well.

You know what it means. If not, google is free.

Men do not think any better of you, and will not treat you any better, just because you pander to them.

Or a product of the misogynistic world we live in. I know better nowadays and we have a duty to teach the next generations better. As a teenager I thought "Love Actually" was romantic. As an adult i recognise it as the misogynistic claptrap it is.

This is very much the point. JL doesn’t mind? Great, good for her. If she stops to think about the hotel cleaner in your example then hopefully she’d think twice about creating a society that accepts that type of behaviour.

Men feel constrained that they can't sexually harass and assault women? Is this a joke?

Absolutely incorrect.
Wolf whistles can be harmful. It can make women fearful of walking past certain areas because of the unwanted attention, for example.
Receiving wolf whistles at 14 by big burly blokes on a building site was intimidating. I had to walk past them to get to the bus stop as there was no alternate route. Being hounded every single day made me stop wanting to go to school.

In those days you could slap a man for inappropriate behaviour but these days he'd retaliate and you'd come off far worse so reporting it is the only safe route now.

There's such a chasm between what boomers like this and millennials like me (albeit elder millennial) think and have experienced. I find them difficult to relate to at all. At a certain point you have to accept that your way of thinking has been totally superseded.