“Everyday sexism” is a must-read and a very important book as it tackles a very stressing yet unacknowledged problem that women regularly face and have to deal with during their everyday life. But first, let me tell you the story behind the book.
Women, especially in Egypt, don’t only suffer from verbal and physical sexual harassment on daily basis but also weird and extraordinary behaviors that makes feel uncomfortable and vulnerable; behaviors like being followed by men during walking in the streets, or men making sexual gestures while looking at them, or receiving sexual comments from their supervisors, seniors, and colleagues who’re trying to constantly intrude in their personal life.
For many, those weird behaviors are seen as an “ordinary” part of women’s daily life that they don’t think there’s even a problem to protest against.
Laura Bates, the book author, realized that despite the surprisingly wide scale of the problem, it remains invisible, unspoken and unacknowledged one. Laura found that -and without any doubt- women in today’s society are facing a problem of inequality and pattern of casual intrusion whereby women could be leered at, touched, harassed and abused, it’s a problem of “Everyday Sexism” against women.
So, Laura Bates decided to take action and as a start she created a very simple website under the name of “Everyday Sexism” where women can share stories from their daily life; stories that range from the small normalized ones to the outrageous offensive ones. The aim of website is very simple, to collect all those women’s stories in one place so that those who hadn’t experienced the problem first-hand could read them and begin to realize what is really happening to women on a daily basis.
No wonder that the website went viral, thousands of stories were added and tens of thousands of people viewed them. Women are suffering from sexism worldwide whether they’re living in a developed or developing countries, women suffer literally everywhere. In addition to the website, the author created a Twitter account “@Everyday-Sexism” so that people can discuss this phenomenon in addition to reading the stories shared by women. Later on, the press and media began to feature the project helping it to spread more and more in many countries all around the world.
Through the chapters of this very great book, the author tackle every tiny aspect of the problem using stories she received from women everywhere as examples and evidences. This is a one great story of a powerful project and a smart great woman behind it. Use the link below to check the project and you have to read the book.
Finally, to all the men -me included- out there, you not being a harasser doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re not a sexist and that’s why you have to monitor EVERYTHING you say and EVERYTHING you do whenever you’re around women because women badly suffer during their daily life because of “us”.
Read this book to realize how big the problem is, read it to realize that we’re the sole and biggest reason of the problem, read it to realize that you once said or did something that made a woman feel uncomfortable or unsafe, read it to stop normalizing what shouldn’t be normalized, read it to know how important is to protest against this problem, read it to know that monitoring your words and behaviors is the least that you can do.
“If we do find you, Beauty, all we can do is love you, go down on our knees and worship you; but if Fortune has not granted us this, we must travel the world in search of you. But to possess you, to actually be you, that is only possible for angels and women. Lovers, poets, painters, sculptors, we all seek to raise an altar to it, the lover in his mistress, the poet in his verses, the painter on his canvas, the sculptor in his marble; but what drives us to utter despair is the inability to make the beauty we feel tangible, and to be wrapped up in a body which fails to realize the ideal we know to be ours.”
Their mind in the first place, how they think about different things, their opinions and prospectives in life. I like a mind that I can discuss stuff with during long long conversation.
Strong personalities are very attractive, I like women who fight for themselves, who can stand for society and men when they try to obstacle them.
I find being successful in your career life attractive. For me, successful women are very sexy.
Also, being open minded and feminist is something that I find attractive, I always like people who care much about human and women rights and gender equality.
A little bit of wildness is a very attractive trait for me, I like girl that can express themselves easily, get what they want, those girls who don’t mind approaching a guy they are interested in him.
Being fit and in shape is very attractive as it means a lot. It means that this girl is very meticulous about her shape, not for the others but for herself and her health.
I guess I have several other traits but the answer has become long enough.
Blessing your Dashboard
إحنا عايزين نعمل بوست هنا علي تمبلر وكل واحد يعمل ريبلوج ويكتب لاين عظيم روبي غنته قبل كده 😃😃
