Women: Cover yourselves or be raped!

[cyranothe2nd]

  This is from an Egyptian ad to encourage women to cover themselves to prevent rape.

Comments

[rosicrucian]

To be fair, men in Egypt really are terrible about fetishizing women. Really. I cannot emphasize this enough.

They are really lewd if you're a white girl.

[rosicrucian]

http://middleeasternaffairs.suite101.com/article.cfm/egypts_rise_in_sexual_harassment

etc.

I don't think they are trying to guilt women or force them to veil, but I do believe they are trying to protect them from the harassment that is just horrifically prevalent in the country. They are less likely to do it to you if you dress very modestly. Like I said in the previous comment, if you are a foreign, non-veiling girl in the country, you are pretty much going to be harassed constantly. Especially if you are wearing tight clothes.

So it really is a case of men behaving in a manner that it has become almost globally infamous.

[mothwentbad]

Then how about they show one picture of some a scumbag feeling up a woman, and another picture of him going to prison? Or would backing that up take more effort than a quick reminder that it's your fault if you get raped?

[bill_sheehan]

What bugs me is that so many women drape themselves in furniture dust covers rather than delivering a good swift kick where it will do the most good. I guess they like being treated special...

[mothwentbad]

I believe kicking a man is an actual crime against a legally-recognized person that can be punished by law, while sometimes rape isn't. But nice victim blaming there. I'm sure you're an expert on how trivial it is to change an entire culture by just doing what you feel like and hoping for the best.

[bill_sheehan]

A long time ago, cartoonist Mike Peters drew a ditsy-looking stenographer over text that read something like, "This is Mary. She's underpaid, harassed, and stuck in a sexually stereotyped job. Yet she's against the Equal Rights Amendment. Why? She likes being treated special." Which is what flashed in my mind when I saw this offensive picture of lollypops and flies, poised to unzip if a woman shows an inch of skin.

I certainly did not mean to incur your dudgeon.

[mothwentbad]

Deciding not to wear a veil isn't always something one can do in the safety and privacy of a voting booth isolated from bullying from family, friends, and strangers. And that's not even touching on how someone generally internalizes what they're brought up with, or how some people, like nuns, might have decided independently that that's how they wanted to dress anyway. It's not the same thing as safely pulling a private lever when no one's looking saying that you want to be worth half as much as a man.

[skittish_derby]

is it weird that the picture made me think of circumcision first?

[cyranothe2nd]

his libido can't go another day without him needing to get laid, the next best thing is marriage...

Yeah because women don't have sexual desire. And also because a married woman can't say no, ammirite? This attitude sickens me.