Women have gathered at Perth's Scarborough beach with signs of encouragement and empowerment for women, in response to a group of men who gathered nearby earlier in the week holding up signs to rate female joggers out of 10.
The men's actions prompted outrage around the country after a video by jogger Elizabeth Carr -- showing three men sitting on deckchairs holding up whiteboards with rating scores for passing female joggers, and yelling and whistling – was posted online.
Organisers Darielle Bown and Jody Carmichael said they wanted to raise awareness and "do something positive" after the video circulated on social media.
"I think we have all been cat-called or felt uncomfortable because there's like a group of men saying something or a group of men looking, whistling, chatting about the way that we look," Ms Bown said.
"It's a common feeling that a lot of women have when walking past or running past groups of men.
"There is like a little bit of a fear of firstly, fear of safety but then secondly, a fear of judgement."
Ms Bown said they wanted to make sure passers-by were given a "confidence boost" by their group.
"We had a lot of actually older women come up to us and say 'you are doing an amazing job'," she said.
"A large majority of people gave us like some sort of positive feedback. A bunch of people said 'you've made my day'."
Some onlookers told group to bin signs
But the response from the public was not all positive.
Participant Amelia Smoker said the group was approached by a man on a bicycle who criticised the group for their actions.
"Within three minutes of us arriving [a man] rolls up on his bike and starts a dialogue with us," she said.
"He said, 'when women wear that type of clothing, don't you think that they open themselves up for that' [type of behaviour from men]?
"I couldn't believe it. I thought he was having a laugh, trolling me, but then I realised he was serious," Ms Smoker said.
Ms Carmichael, a sales representative at a Western Australian beer company, said the video had created tension within her industry.
"Unfortunately, [there were] some inappropriate comments made on the [original] article by people within the hospitality industry," she said.
"I received a lot of backlash for calling those people out and it has been a rough couple of days, so I was stoked to get the girls together and end with week with some positivity.
"As long as some people's days were made, I'm happy."
