In through one ear and out the other

Last night, I watched a segment about the "Respect Yourself" or "E7terem Nafsak" anti-sexual harassment campaign by Kelmetna Magazine on "el 3ashera masa2an" show along with millions of other people. It resonated with me as I'm sure it did with many other girls around Egypt particularly since the segment adamantly placed emphasis on the fact that it's not the girl's fault and unlike what people believe, it doesn't simply boil down to the way she's dressed.

So I decided to check out the campaign's facebook group and you'll never guess what I found people arguing about for pages upon pages.

Actually, you probably can

Lo and behold, people were still arguing about clothes and the way girls are dressed.

I'm stunned that so many people are simultaneously naive and hardheaded. Note to the public : covering a girl from head to toe has been done and it doesn't desuade macho-men with inferiority complexes walking through the streets of Cairo from running their mouths and possibly drooling to the extent of needing a bucket tied around their necks (and this has been supported by research).

Before anyone flames me, I'm not advocating that women walk around in the skimpiest of outfits but basically I believe in two things :

a) Regardless of religious beliefs, I don't think it's particularly intelligent of a girl to emphasize her body over everything else she possesses be it intelligence, talent, humor..etc.
b)However, I do believe in personal freedom.

Another reason why the whole clothing issue is so completely redundant to me is that saying a women is "asking for it" by the way she dresses is basically proclaiming that the majority of men in Egypt are decerebrate animals with absolutely no control over their actions who are simply being driven around by their hormones and desires. I find that both lame and unacceptable. Seriously, people have to come up with a better excuse than that.

To further explain my point; let's use the open door analogy Egyptians seem so fond of. We like to say that if a door of a house or a car is left open, surely this will lure a theif.
Well, yeah..except that means that 90% of the Egyptian male population have suddenly become degenerate theives and women (pssst...those are the houses/cars...ooh..and their skimpy clothes are the open doors!) have suddenly become walking targets.

I don't know about you but that's just insulting to both sexes .

I don't want to live in a place where that analogy is an accepted fact that applies to the vast majority of the population especially in this day and age.

You know what the real problem is? It's apathy. As cliche as that sounds, it's the truth. Nobody gives a damn any more. It's just another day and another chick getting hit on by some moron, maybe violently, maybe not. Ho-hum well what's new and what do you expect me to do, lady?

I'd go as far as to say that some people enjoy seeing other people's misery. After all, it makes for awesome small talk!


listening to: Robyn-Bum like you

Down with the females?

I don't know why, but it seems as though most professors at the faculty of medicine, Ain Shams university, really ..I dunno..um..have a deep hatred for women?
They're always making' jokes about us, about how we'll get married later than all the other girls , that we're studying while they're raising kids, that we don't compare to them in looks, how we're all hogging the credit from the guys and how they need the higher ranks because they're the ones who will actually need to make money in the future.
They always refer to us as 'females' ,too. Never as women or girls. Like we're barely eligible as females because of that annoying extra X chromosome lurking in our cells.
One of the professors in particular, the one who gives us the "private" lesson (common practice in Egyptian medschools among others..long story) who goes by the name of Dr. Usama seems to hate women with a passion...as well as children..other doctors...students...well, let's just say he's not a big fan of life in general. Now he doesn't even call us females, he refers to us as "hareem" . Like we're a herd of cattle or something. He's always mumbling "if the hareem would just stay at home and spare us the headache" bla bla bla. The guys love his jokes, too. They always respond in a mighty, rumbling laugh. Just yesterday he asked them if they agreed
that it would be better if we weren't there and won't ya know it, they all responded in unanimous , billowing agreement.

OMG, You f*cking douchebags!?? What are you so pissed about? It's not like they give up their seats to us when it's too crowded in class , or wait for us to see a specimen or a patient first before they go in for the attack(I'm still bitter about what the male I identify only as "lamp post" did to me in the morgue in our first yr). It's not like if we didn't exist some guy who barely passes is suddenly going to get high scores. If you're stupid while we're here, you're still gonna be stupid if we disappear.
O and don't you get me started on these males who complain about what we look like . You see, thee guys in my class seem to be stuck in an awkward stage between manhood and boyhood and aren't exactly "Mcdreamy's" (I can't believe I just said that *groan*) .They should really buy mirrors, as in the real type not the type you see in fun houses that might make them appear mildly more tolerable to look at than their current pitiful state.
And that pick-up driver disguised as a doctor who teaches us should know better. I don't give a sh*t if he's joking or serious but it's pretty damn irresponsible of him to spout out that crap like there's no tomorrow infront of a bunch of impressionable 21 yr old guys who seem to idolize him f0r some bizzare reason. Chicks have it hard enough as it is in this country, ok?
Besides if girls did stop going to med school, his income would be approximately reduced to half the original number.
After all, our money doesn't have the annoying extra X on it.