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watching this report on sexual harassment in egypt and im caught between laughing and crying because of how absurd it is

interviewer says, “what kind of clothes would make you NOT harass a woman?”

men say, “well if she’s wear a loose abaya or a loose shirt or something.”

interviewer says, “well what if i tell you women in niqabs have been harassed?”

man says, “oh, you know, sometimes they have makeup on their eyes -” makes motion to indicate winged eyeliner “-like here and—”

other man interjects, “like when some niqabis are wearing pants underneath their niqabs and it flaps open—”

interviewer, “you have time to analyse the makeup in her eyes?!”

man, looking hurt, “well, it’s the only thing that shows!!”

actual quote!!!

“the only time i regretted harassing this girl on the bus was because she looked pretty so, you know, i harassed her and then afterwards someone told me she was crying because of it so i went and apologised”

“so why did you even harass her in the first place? was her clothing inappropriate?”

“no, she was wearing a abaya but she was pretty!”

im dead oh jesus christ

“they say harassment occurs because men are not married, is this true?”

“well we thought it would stop when we got married, but it didn’t. we’re still boys at heart.”

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PATRIARCHAL

SOCIETY

AMAZING IT WILL LITERALLY WIPE THE COMMON SENSE FROM YOUR BRAINS

OMG Deena…

wait here’s the clincher that literally had me pulling at my hair

“what if a woman insults you or hits you?”

“i’ll hit her right back”

“you would hit a woman?”

“i would, it’s just like - a natural reaction, I mean, it’s self defense.”

“well how else is she supposed to defend herself from you?”

“she can go and bring me a man and he can have his beef with me.”

[interviewer voice over] “it is now clear to me that these men don’t consider that women even have the right to defend themselves.”

Deena, I love you and I love your country but maybe my Dad has it right when he throws a fit whenever I mention about visiting Egypt this summer.

ahahaha well while i’m on this strain of thought a page on facebook posted statistics to sexual harassment in egypt (“80-93% of women in Egypt have been sexually harassed”) and about half of the comments were men asking “why is this infographic in english? you’re going to scare the tourists away.”

sigh 

Just watched this report too, find it here , I found those guys incredibly annoying, it’s the whole, “she provoked me with her clothes/make-up” argument, so basically they don’t realise what they are saying is that they can’t control themselves. It’s obvious when you think about it, that guys doing this are not just going to automatically stop when they get married, but it sickened me as I’d never considered it before. Imagine, leaving your wife at home, and then going and making slimy comments to girls in the street. I’d feel disgusted to the core if my husband did that. May Allah guide Egypt back to the straight path, ameen.