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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Salma Hayek tells of being sexual harassed in Egypt
2009-11-13
Ahahahha...
Reminds me of a bit in a teevee documentary about an older "french" algerian guy returning yearly to the old country to see how the home he had being built for his retirement was going (nowhere, materials were being stolen, work was substandard, etc, etc...)...
And how his westernized adult daughters REALLY didn't like going back to algeria even on vacations, because the area boyz & men (even older ones) would follow them in packs, making lewd comments and trying to coarsely "pick them up", almost just one step short from gangrape, as soon as they'd put a foot outside...
Basically, those nice northern african Youths were "like dogs" and they fended them off each time by finally "throwing stones at them". Comedy gold.

Those wimmen were muslim arabs or arabized berbers, no wonder the gypsos (egypt is supposedly more backward than algeria) went apesh9t over teenaged Salma...
Posted by:anonymous5089

#8  IIRC PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > SURVEY: MAJORITY OF WOMEN FEEL UNSAFE IN NEW DELHI.

As for SELMA, the protection of her bodacious Hollyw bosom clearly warrants/demands a case for War!

But, I digress ...
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2009-11-13 22:11  

#7  Actually, she was harassed as a non-descript teenaged wide-eyed tourist came to visit the Mysterious Muddle East, back when she was unknown.
Wonder if she will catch some flak for that? (Quite some years ago, Cameron Diaz made a stir in the french media when she let it slip that she didn't like Paris, because, far from its glamourous image, it was too Diverse™ even for her brazilian taste... I remember how the PC temple guardians went ballistic with that unfortunate, if candid and IIUC quite true, utterance).
Posted by: anonymous5089   2009-11-13 17:45  

#6  Dancing at the "Titty Twister" in From Dusk til Dawn will give a girl a rep... even in Egypt.
Posted by: Capsu78   2009-11-13 16:32  

#5  What would end this nonsense quickly would be a grassroots women's movement with a simple idea: women and girls must be armed with a bladed weapon in public, and use it if assailed by a man.

The idea is to adopt this as a cultural norm, enforced by women on other women. That to be out in public without a knife or edged weapon, even a sharp piece of metal or glass, is as unthinkable as going out naked.

At first some men will be cut, and some women will be beaten, or even killed. But women are beaten and killed right now. But men will quickly learn that they don't know if a woman is armed or not, and this will give them pause before they assail them.

And most of the time, this pause alone will convince them to *not* assail women, for fear that they might get cut. This psychological change happens quickly and pretty soon men will only behave badly in isolated rural areas.

It is called the "social sanction", and I read about a version of it happening in the Philippines, on a different subject. But within a week or two, suddenly a popular behavior turned into a strong taboo across most of the country.

Hopefully if women carrying a bladed weapon caught on in a single country in the Middle East, it would spread over the entire region. Politicians are always on the lookout for new social trends like that, so after they happen on their own, they often follow them up by making written law to enforce the unwritten law.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2009-11-13 13:32  

#4  Its like one of those princess stories where the princess sneaks out of the castle to see what is really going on, and reality ensues.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2009-11-13 12:25  

#3  sometimes not at all

Almost never.
In Egypt, the Demographic Health Survey in 2000 revealed that 97% of married women surveyed experienced FGC.3 Another study, carried out by the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population in 2003, reported that 94.6% of married women had been exposed to FGC and 69.1% of those women agreed to carry out FGC on their daughters.
Posted by: ed   2009-11-13 11:37  

#2  uh, welcome to Egypt. where men come first and women, sometimes not at all
Posted by: 746   2009-11-13 10:32  

#1  What does it matter - women are chattel, property of a man who claims them. The Prophet sez so.
Posted by: Ahab the Arab   2009-11-13 09:12  

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