Sunday 18 September 2011
Tuesday 6 July 2010
Street Harassers, Creepers, and Lurkers.
Street harassers, elderly creepers, pervy lurkers, you are the bane of my life and a pain to women everywhere.
Waiting alone outside the Strada restaurant for some friends when I was 15, some perverted twenty-something trolloped up to me, winked in a grotesque manner and addressed me as “alright sexy?!”.
Now, regardless of the obvious paedophilic connections in a man calling a 15-year-old girl “sexy”, why did he do it? Did he think that I would be so overwhelmed with passion upon him addressing me as “sexy” that I would immediately run away with him forever? Does he really think that this is an attractive way to talk to a woman?
Believe it or not, women do have the right to this CRAZY idea that we can exist in public spaces. No, it’s not up to women to “dress modestly” or not to “provoke” old pervs, it’s up to said pervs to “control their desires” and, say, NOT randomly harass women.
Not even just women – it is highly inappropriate to talk to ANY stranger like that. So, guys and girls, if someone harasses you in the street or you witness harassment in the street, please do something about it! If we make people aware that it’s completely NOT OKAY to verbally abuse random women in the street, hopefully there will be less and less cases of harassment.
Waiting alone outside the Strada restaurant for some friends when I was 15, some perverted twenty-something trolloped up to me, winked in a grotesque manner and addressed me as “alright sexy?!”.
Now, regardless of the obvious paedophilic connections in a man calling a 15-year-old girl “sexy”, why did he do it? Did he think that I would be so overwhelmed with passion upon him addressing me as “sexy” that I would immediately run away with him forever? Does he really think that this is an attractive way to talk to a woman?
Believe it or not, women do have the right to this CRAZY idea that we can exist in public spaces. No, it’s not up to women to “dress modestly” or not to “provoke” old pervs, it’s up to said pervs to “control their desires” and, say, NOT randomly harass women.
Not even just women – it is highly inappropriate to talk to ANY stranger like that. So, guys and girls, if someone harasses you in the street or you witness harassment in the street, please do something about it! If we make people aware that it’s completely NOT OKAY to verbally abuse random women in the street, hopefully there will be less and less cases of harassment.
Tuesday 20 April 2010
Thursday 15 April 2010
Racism is a strange concept.
It's strange that people have chosen to discrimate on grounds of skin colour, and not, say, eye colour. Or favourite colour. Or something.
Aren't we all one race? The human race?
It's like saying, "you've got blonde hair, I've got brown hair, therefore we're completely different culturally and inherently."
Racism will be a problem for as long as we see different colour skin as COMPLETELY different. It is strange. It's as ridiculous as not wanting to be friends with someone because, say, they have brown hair. That is ridiculous.
Aren't we all one race? The human race?
It's like saying, "you've got blonde hair, I've got brown hair, therefore we're completely different culturally and inherently."
Racism will be a problem for as long as we see different colour skin as COMPLETELY different. It is strange. It's as ridiculous as not wanting to be friends with someone because, say, they have brown hair. That is ridiculous.
Wednesday 14 April 2010
"A woman is staring at a blank piece of paper. What is she reading?"
"Her rights!"
Seriously, what the hell?!
That was a "joke" told by a GIRL on a facebook discussion page.
Maybe we should rephrase it, and say to her, "You are staring at a blank piece of paper. What are you reading? Your rights!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAOLOLOLOLOLOL HOW FUNNY!!!!"
Picture from cartoonstock.com
Seriously, what the hell?!
That was a "joke" told by a GIRL on a facebook discussion page.
Maybe we should rephrase it, and say to her, "You are staring at a blank piece of paper. What are you reading? Your rights!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAOLOLOLOLOLOL HOW FUNNY!!!!"
Picture from cartoonstock.com
Tuesday 13 April 2010
IT IS BECAUSE OF ATTITUDES LIKE THIS....
THAT I QUESTION HUMANITY.
What gives people the right to believe that....I am respectful of other people's opinions, but when they're based on shit like this I find that difficult.
I am absolutely speechless at how a group of people can be so hateful.
Thursday 8 April 2010
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