I am African, but my skin tone is very light. Men here are inclined to harass these type of women (light-skinned) because we are seen as being “more attractive, and more desirable” than a dark-skinned woman (grossly untrue, but it’s how our society is framed to think). Even though it happens to me often, March 4th was way worse than the other days.
I had gone to shop for groceries, and I had to walk for about 20 minutes. I got harassed by at least 15 different men for that 20-minute walk! The harassment ranged from cat calls, my arms being stroked by strangers (very disgusting, I must say), men asking other men to stare at me… Others yelled across the streets asking if I could get pregnant. For those that felt really irked by me ignoring them, insults such as “stupid whore” were hurled at me. It was so mortifying, frustrating, and plain disgusting.
– KWA
Location: Nairobi, Kenya, along the streets
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Wir sind wütend, weil wir nicht sicher sind auf unseren Straßen, wie es uns einschränkt, uns unserer Freiheit beraubt. Nicht erst jetzt, nachdem seit der Silvesternacht ganz Deutschland auf einmal Sexismus, Street Harassment, sexuelle Belästigung entdeckt hat. Wir sind wütend, weil sexuelle Belästigung nicht erst Silvester erfunden wurde, sondern schon immer vorhanden war. Wir sind wütend darüber, dass nicht endlich eine Auseinandersetzung mit den allgegenwärtigen Sexismen in unserer Gesellschaft stattfindet.
We are angry because we aren’t safe in our streets. We are angry about consequently being limited and about how our freedom is taken away. Not only now, that after New Year’s Eve the entire country – Germany – has discoverd sexism, street harrassment, sexual harassment. We are angry because all this was part of our lives already before New Year’s Eve. We are angy because no dispute regarding the omnipresent sexism in our society takes place.