Sunday, July 14, 2019

Why should we support harassers?





Since 2014 I’m interested in women rights and that was by an accident I didn't mean to pay attention for this type of human rights specifically.
  
But something attached me to that matter, as I’m a woman also, living in a conservative community who's firmly attached to religions specially Islam, and is submitting to wrong definitions of topics related to women.
  
For many years as an ex-conservative I believed in their point of view that women shouldn't wear what they want or travel and work as they want, and men have the upper hand to control their lives as - they supposed- to be the most intelligent, smartest and the best to control everything.

Day by day I found that this is injustice matter, I read many sources in religion and how conservative communities think and I found that most of these thoughts have no base they are just put by men to control and eliminate women's passion and success.

The most popular problems over the last 10 years were harassment and sexual abuse. Many shocking and different studies said that 1 out of 3 women faced at least one type of sexual abuse from a husband, father or a brother or even strangers in streets.

After 2011 revolution thousands of girls started feeling freedom, they were ready to face the community with their choices for their lives, and honestly it wasn't that easy at all, many of them found massive rejection from their families and the community as well, people in streets and public transportation punished and violated girls who were wearing short dresses and unveiling their heads.
  
Thanks to efforts of the civil society violence has been eliminated but not as much that we desire, but day by day girls and women's awareness is increasing and they create their own supportive communities to recover themselves.
  
Though this awareness but many celebrities and society men still have that old fashion, non modern and conservative point of view that see women as only a body for sex, cooking and cleaning and still considering sexual abuse as a funny or ordinary thing with no respect of needs of women.

The only benefit Egypt gained from supporting the footballer Amr Warda who has been accused for harassment of an Egyptian model living in Dubai, is that people talked about Warda as the reason of the failure of the national team because of what he did, shaming and labeling him massively as a harasser was the purpose that many workers of civil society and women rights wanted.

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