Why do men feel like they can taunt, whisper at, and follow any woman (or girl) who passes their line of view? We need to talk about violence against women in MENA It is a threat, a label, another way to dissect the body from the woman who owns it. Pretty is no longer a compliment when it is breathed down your neck by a man who hasn’t even looked you in the eye. You can’t single-handedly rid the world of misogyny, but you can at least make sure your adolescent daughter isn’t the next target of its over-sexualised, paedophilic design. "Being told to wear long trousers or cover my shoulders – usually by people who mean well – only served to over-simplify the complex and multi-faceted reality that I could not walk down the streets of Casablanca without tensing my body and washing my face of any sort of emotion" But watching their daughter come home in tears from being harassed at the shopping mall or beach naturally made them wary of the “source” of the incidents. They knew it wasn’t my fault that men would stare, stalk, and smirk. They aren’t conservative, but rather, feared the reactions my outfits would implicit. My parents were always wary of what I wore when I left the house during high school. I did not even deserve to be addressed in complete thoughts – although the words they did use were never any better. How fitting, that as a teenager, grown men looked at and called to me as they would an innocent, small, homeless creature. In Morocco, “psst psst” is also used to beckon over a curious street cat.
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