Bad Apples
Here I've been thinking that Arabic culture is highly respectful of women (aside from modern-day slavery, of course, as well as Islamic regimes that execute rape victims, treat females as chattel, and sanction the blowing up of schoolchildren, because what society doesn't have its warts?). But now comes the news that two-thirds of Egyptian men admit to harassing women. All it takes is a few million bad apples, I suppose.
Ah, but now that I read the article more closely, I see the men aren't to blame. They blame the women.
Posted by Woodlief on July 17, 2008 at 03:31 PM