In a short video that has gone viral, Egyptian filmmaker Sharine Atif shares the story of Nora Labib, an Egyptian woman and how she stood up to a sexual harasser with a boldness that left the harasser unsure of how to respond. Labib begins by pointing out that “women are the most shy hearing ‘dirty’ words [and] are also the ones who hear the most ‘dirty’ words in the street,” highlighting the double standard of sexually harassing women in a conservative society. She then tells the story of how, when a man in the street told her “I want to f*** your t***,” she responded by telling him to take off his pants and “show me what you’re going to f*** them with … because I have the right to pick.” “He moved back, turning yellow, red and green. I said, ‘Weren’t you seven men in one a minute ago?'” Labib then goes on to say that she was not ashamed of her reaction and that the harasser’s words to her “did not make [her] feel dirty,” and claimed that women should react to harassment by taking their rights…
‘Show Me Your Cucumber’: Egyptian Women Who Confront Sexual Harassment Celebrated in Video Series
June 2, 2016
