Sexual Harrasment and religion
I came across this while surfing:
In the Middle East, as elsewhere, it's not the clothes women wear that makes them liable to harassment – it's men's attitudes
By Faisal al Yafai from Guardian.co.uk
I think this article is excellent and a nice change from the recent victim blaming horrors we've had of late in the British press.
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Oh. Wow. I can't believe the lollipop analogy. 'Cause women are candy and attract flies...
No reference to the fact that any harassing-minded man will do what he's doing the minute he gets you alone, with "wrapping" or without. As one poster so aptly pointed out when discussing date rape, it's about treating women like public toilets. At the very least, harassment stems from a combination of opportunism and feelings of entitlement - and at worst, from a deliberate desire to hurt, intimidate, subjugate and violate.
It isn't what a woman wears. It's how the man chooses to see her. How many times will this have to be repeated before the judges finally get it??