Thank god I don't have a sister to worry about in Cairo. I was appalled, like many others, by the mass-sexual harassment that took place in downtown Cairo last Eid (feast). Just seeing those sexual predators preying on two women in that youtube video made my body shiver and my blood pressure hit the ceiling.
Now I now that everybody has already tore this subject apart and discussed reasons and solutions, and that everybody cursed those bastards with all the obscenity possible. But I see that people are forgetting, and as usual, letting it go, as if nothing ever happened.
Today the police decreed that there will be no more dancing in front of movie theatres, as if that was the reason all that happened. Although some would like to believe it. But sexual harassment has always been in the undercurrent of the thread of Egyptian society. And even all the way here in Miami, I still feel worried and aggrevated.
I have not known one single girl/women in Cairo that has either been approached, groped, molested, abused verbally or physically, been called a whore/bitch, looked at lustfully or ass-grabbed.
When this first started, everybody was infuriated, and some certain bloggers were aiming to start a national awareness campaign, but I don't see any action, and the candle has faded.
Without any further commenting on this subject, I'm going to post these two links for people to remember.
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