After many people sent it my way, I just watched the 10 minute film Oppressed Majority (Majorité Opprimée) by Eléonore Pourriat whose version with English subtitles has been watched over 2 million times in a week. In the film, roles are reversed and it’s a female-dominated society, and not in a nice way. They belittle, harass, assault and disbelieve the main character Pierre, in essence showing what every day life IS actually like for women worldwide.
An article in The Guardian provides background information —
“[Pourriat] says that the film “came from a personal experience. I was a woman. I was 30 years old. And my husband didn’t believe that I was – I was not assaulted, but I got remarked on in the street. Very often. He said, ‘Wow. That’s incredible.’ His surprise was the beginning of the idea for me. Sometimes men – it’s not their fault – they don’t imagine that women are assaulted even with words every day, with small, slight words. They can’t imagine that because they are not confronted with that themselves.”
SSH is working hard to reveal the every day street harassment women (and many men) experience worldwide. It’s part of our Everyday Sexism experiences. Don’t believe it, read our stories, read the stories on Everyday Sexism. This is a big problem and — if we care about girls and women at all — it needs to end now.
