at Mohamed Mahmoud Street Tahrir Square, Cairo, Cairo (30.044360 31.235850)
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اثناء تواجدي في ميدان التحرير للتظاهر يوم الثلاثاء..اردت الدخول لشارع محمد محمود..كان معى صديق لي..اثناء الدخول للشارع الناس كانت بتقوله بلاش تدخلها الشارع جوة..كنا فاكرين قصدهم انهم خايفيين عليا من ضرب النار او قنابل الغاز..كان بسألني عاوزة تدخلي الشارع وانا بقوله اه..انا مش خايفة من القنابل ولا ضرب النار..لما بدأنا ندخل الشارع كان هو قدامي علشان يوسع الطريق ليا وليه..بدات اشعر بناس بتلمس جسمي..كنت بقول ده اكيد من التزاحم..مع الوقت بدأ اشعر ان في حد قامgrabbing my back..and trying to finger my ass..in this moment i just realized that this wasn't because of the crowed..or that guys didn't mean it..but it was actually sexual harassment in the middle of a war zone against police and army force..this was shocking..in this moment i screamed and told my friend..i want to leave..on my way back to tahrir square my friend realized from my reaction that i might faced harassment in Mohamed Mahmoud square..so he was behind me trying to protect me..we kept on hearing comments insulting him and me..accusing him of bringing me to the street to have a chance to be behind me and molest me..they started to insult him and me as well..
i took a decision i will never go to the square again with large numbers although this might be safer for us against the police and army..yet ..i must confess..i can face the army..i can face the police..i can handle tear gas bombs and bullets..yet i can't handle sexual harassment
this is a very devastating experience for me..i am shocked..ashamed..and disgusted..for the 1st time in my life i wish i was a man instead of a sex object letting men abusing me
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