I have been tweeting about sexual harassment (SH) on and of for sometime; specially when the horses ass MP Azza Al Garf was advocating the abolishment of the SH law, bec its our fault since we dress so provocatively; apparently ever single woman in Egypt any age is provocative. Any way Azza isn't the main topic here; this honour goes to SH. Sexual harassment (SH) is an extremely big issue here in Egypt and I don't think there is one woman in Egypt who can say that she hasn't suffered from it in one form or another
So, what exactly is SH?
1- Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical
conduct
2- Any form of Unwelcome sexual attention.
Where can it happen?
SH can happen anywhere for example on the street, at work or even in a shop; SH is not restricted to a single place.
There are 3 types of SH these are:
1- Verbal SH
2- Non-verbal SH
3- Physical SH
What is verbal SH?
Its comments about clothing, personal behaviour, or a person's body, whistling at someone and catcalls.
What is Non-verbal SH?
Looking up and down a person's body; derogatory gestures or facial expressions of a sexual nature, following a person or deliberately blocking someone's path.
What is physical SH:
This one is pretty self explanatory but just to make it clear physical SH includes: assault, inappropriate touching of a person or a person's clothing, standing close or brushing up against someone.
Now you know all the different types of SH and I dare whoever reads this classification to deny that they have suffered from even one form of SH before. And I'll be the 1st to admit that I have suffered from all 3 but mainly the 1st 2 types the last one thankfully happened to me only once. I have been cursed, propositioned and followed around at one time or another and its nothing that only started happening recently; it has been going on for years and I'm 20 so you do the math. But, what I am sure of is that its not my fault that I have been sexually harassed this is the work of a repressed sick mind; and what I wear doesn't figure into the equation; you can dress in a sack if you want and you'll still be harassed. So, if some sick person tells you its your fault because of the way you dress, or because you were walking in a side street or even because you were on the street late at night you can simply tell that person "GO TO HELL IT'S DAMNED WELL NOT MY FAULT". You are free to go where you want when ever you want to and wear what you want and this doesn't give any one the right to harras you.
Now the really important question is how to deal with SH, we mostly tend to ignore the harasser like our parents told us don't respond or he'll think you like it or if you respond it will only be worse just be passive and it'll be over soon. I just have a question has being passive helped you at all? don't you notice that more women and girls are being harrased? more and more every day instead of declining the rate of harassment is steadily rising. I'm not implying that this increase is due only to our passivity a lot of other things factor into the equation but our passivity helped a great deal.
So, the next time you are harrased you answer back when someone insults you yell and tell him to behave himself, when someone dares to touch you you yell and slap him make a scene so people gather and teach him the lesson of his life. If we fight back enough times the harassers will think twice before harassing anyone else. Its a start and even if it doesn't achieve the result you want it feels damned great when you fight back don't give someone the chance to degrade you and force you to feel revulsion and force you to hate yourself.
So, what exactly is SH?
1- Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical
conduct
OR
2- Any form of Unwelcome sexual attention.
Where can it happen?
SH can happen anywhere for example on the street, at work or even in a shop; SH is not restricted to a single place.
There are 3 types of SH these are:
1- Verbal SH
2- Non-verbal SH
3- Physical SH
What is verbal SH?
Its comments about clothing, personal behaviour, or a person's body, whistling at someone and catcalls.
What is Non-verbal SH?
Looking up and down a person's body; derogatory gestures or facial expressions of a sexual nature, following a person or deliberately blocking someone's path.
What is physical SH:
This one is pretty self explanatory but just to make it clear physical SH includes: assault, inappropriate touching of a person or a person's clothing, standing close or brushing up against someone.
Now you know all the different types of SH and I dare whoever reads this classification to deny that they have suffered from even one form of SH before. And I'll be the 1st to admit that I have suffered from all 3 but mainly the 1st 2 types the last one thankfully happened to me only once. I have been cursed, propositioned and followed around at one time or another and its nothing that only started happening recently; it has been going on for years and I'm 20 so you do the math. But, what I am sure of is that its not my fault that I have been sexually harassed this is the work of a repressed sick mind; and what I wear doesn't figure into the equation; you can dress in a sack if you want and you'll still be harassed. So, if some sick person tells you its your fault because of the way you dress, or because you were walking in a side street or even because you were on the street late at night you can simply tell that person "GO TO HELL IT'S DAMNED WELL NOT MY FAULT". You are free to go where you want when ever you want to and wear what you want and this doesn't give any one the right to harras you.
Now the really important question is how to deal with SH, we mostly tend to ignore the harasser like our parents told us don't respond or he'll think you like it or if you respond it will only be worse just be passive and it'll be over soon. I just have a question has being passive helped you at all? don't you notice that more women and girls are being harrased? more and more every day instead of declining the rate of harassment is steadily rising. I'm not implying that this increase is due only to our passivity a lot of other things factor into the equation but our passivity helped a great deal.
So, the next time you are harrased you answer back when someone insults you yell and tell him to behave himself, when someone dares to touch you you yell and slap him make a scene so people gather and teach him the lesson of his life. If we fight back enough times the harassers will think twice before harassing anyone else. Its a start and even if it doesn't achieve the result you want it feels damned great when you fight back don't give someone the chance to degrade you and force you to feel revulsion and force you to hate yourself.
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