A video of a woman beating a taxi driver after he allegedly placed his hand on her leg and sexually harassed her has gone viral in Egypt on social media. The footage showed the woman slapping the taxi driver on his face, forcing him to give her the keys to the taxi so he cannot escape. The taxi driver said that “he didn’t mean to” and then denied placing his hand on her leg altogether when confronted by other members of the public. In the video, the woman insists the taxi driver goes with her to a police station so that she can file a report against him. However, a police car shortly passes by and the woman explains the situation to them. After insisting the taxi driver goes to the police station with the to file a report against the driver, “Are women cheap?” the women repeated throughout the video in response to the man’s defense. It is unclear from the footage whether the policemen took any action against the accused. Despite many people on social media hailing the woman as brave, other appeared to ‘victim-blame’ by questioning why the woman would…
