I´m sexy and I know it, egyptian style.

Never there was so much fuss about sexual harassment and security in Egypt, particularly in the beloved jungle of Cairo. 
Women everywhere - including me - started to openly talk about the TORTURE they have to endure every time they DARE to walk in public spaces as well as both sexes mention different kinds of security - or lack of it - related situations that we never heard of before.


I cannot complain - thanks God - for the security question as I did not experience anything negative in this regard and still feel safe anywhere I go in Cairo. The same cannot be said about the sexual harassment. 
As I endured an early bird visit to one of those burocratic place for dancer´s paper work (which is a tedious, depressing enough experience in itself) I realized three different attitudes can be traced out of this sexual harassment craze:




1.The men who keep their disgusting sexual remarks to themselves, saying it in a low voice (which, thanks to my blessed ears, I can listen to anyway) and staring blankly at you with the same expression of those long term lunatics who have passed through different mad houses and resisted to all kinds of treatment, without hope or cure.




2. The ones who TRY to be "religious" and, therefore, run away from the pecaminous sight of a woman as vampires run away from garlic. Their eyes get stuck on the floor and you can see them sweat, suffering in an internal debate between Light and Darkness. 
A woman´s BODY is perceived as "fitna" (something than can challenge the order and path of God, a temptation, potential reason for the FALL of all virtues) as well as a SEXUAL OBJECT. Male´s bodies are seen as PRODUCTIVE, POLITICAL, SOCIAL items but not FEMALE bodies whose functions seem to be resumed into serving men both in the sexual and procreation area. Any woman who dares to show her body - even if covered with cloths - in public is harassing men or so they think. Isn´t it crazy? The sexual harassers consider themselves victims of the FEMALE BODY and their enticing flair! 
Talk about crazy town.




3. The openly assumed SEXUAL PERVERTS who will throw pornographic remarks at you, try to grope you or even worse feeling no shame for those acts. These are the same who will enter a mosque and call themselves religious. In their heads, it is their RIGHT to harass you because YOU are the criminal, not them. Who the hell you think you are to go on the street and walk freely without a male owner (brother,father, husband)?!

Does this deserve any further comment?! I´ll leave that to your consideration.