You miss the point. No one claims that the whistler had a sincere sexual interest in Curie. Such wolf-whistling is disruptive because it is a reminder, to both

You miss the point. No one claims that the whistler had a sincere sexual interest in Curie. Such wolf-whistling is disruptive because it is a reminder, to both the men and the women in the room, of the social status of women and men. Even if you think that era of objectification and oppressionf of women is largely over (I don't), we're only in the first few decades of relative equality after centuries without even a pretense of it.