welcome welcome ya gameela

reuters today published a story saying that two-thirds of egyptian men harass women. and i'm leaving off the question mark that they used in their headline because... there's no question about it. is the question mark supposed to be some kind of cultural sensitivity? don't lie for the sake of sensitivity, that's just stupid.

well, it's not really news to me that two thirds of egyptian men harass women. the most upsetting part of the article was:

Some 53 percent of men blamed women for bringing on sexual harassment, saying they enjoyed it or were dressed in a way deemed indecent. Some women agreed.

"Out of Egyptian women and men interviewed, most believe that women who wear tight clothes deserve to be harassed," the survey said. It addehttp://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gifd most agreed women should be home by 8 p.m.

The survey said most of the Egyptian women who told of being harassed said they were dressed conservatively, with the majority wearing the Islamic headscarf. The harassment took place on the streets or on public transport, as well as in tourist destinations and foreign educational institutions.

i'm sorry, but what are women supposed to do? people walk around wearing the hijab and still get harassed. my roommate's teacher who wears hijab got flashed in a supermarket once. like full-on flashed.

i wear my ipod as my armor, then i can't hear them.

on the other side of the women's dress question:

A Veil Closes France's Door to Citizenship

is anyone really surprised? i'm not gonna say anything because i don't think i actually understand anything about france and its laws, but i really hope/don't think that kind of thing would fly in the US.


anyway, my life is good. i am coming home in less than a week for the last week of july and whole month of august! yay!

tonight - well actually in 10 minutes - i am going out to dinner at a yemeni restaurant in doqqi with a bunch of casa people and then to watch caramel, this lebanese movie that is pretty exciting, at tim's. i've never had yemeni food before so i'm excited to find out what that's all about. i spent all day trying to do homework with joseph and t, but it turns out that doing homework with them/other people in general turns into exactly the same kind of mess that ben and ryan (and sometimes sarah) and i always got ourselves into and so we wound up talking about israel and boys.

i miss amer's.

oooh i get to have amer's in a week! oh my god so much honeycup mustard.