Harassment
This past Friday, I was with Joy and Jonn at a mamak place, and had one of the most unpleasant encounters in my life, ever.
I was talking to Jonn when I realized that four men over at the next table kept looking towards me and/or Joy. They had the most lascivious, lecherous, perverted smirks on their faces you could ever imagine.
And in that instant, fully clothed though I was, I felt so unsafe and naked. My skin literally crawled.
It did not help that they laughed when they knew we were aware that they were watching.
By the way, I'm not overreacting or being "too sensitive". Joy and Jonn felt it too.
Know this: both Joy and I were decently dressed. We were wearing long-sleeved tops and jeans. We did not expose anything. And yet we were harassed by a bunch of vile, disgusting beasts.
Right at that moment, after that initial surge of fear, I felt such rage at them. I wanted so much to smash their stupid faces into sizzling hot plates and knee them in the groin, to wipe that smirk off their faces.
Even just by recounting that incident, it evokes the same vulnerability and rage I was subject to that day.
The saddest part of this whole incident is that they got away scot free after visually molesting me and/or Joy. And I know that if we'd actually tried to lodge a police report that night, we couldn't have because the laws in Malaysia just don't respect women enough. We would probably have been told to just "go home and forget it, and maybe next time you should cover yourself up...and girls shouldn't be out at night anyway."
Nothing will be done, and nothing can be done, not with the attitude most Malaysian MPs have anyway. If a woman is raped or sexually harassed, it's all her fault. She was "asking for it", or maybe her dressing is too "revealing". It seems to escape the notice of those who are elected that little girls and old women are raped as well...and so was a fully-clothed, tudung-wearing girl on a bus a few years back.
So, keep blaming the women for tempting men. Blame your lack of self-control, lack of respect for women, lack of any morality whatsoever, blame your corrupted thoughts and desires on women. It's easier to justify your filthiness rather than change your attitudes...besides, a change of attitude means you can't go on being perverts, which is something (most) men won't give up.
I was talking to Jonn when I realized that four men over at the next table kept looking towards me and/or Joy. They had the most lascivious, lecherous, perverted smirks on their faces you could ever imagine.
And in that instant, fully clothed though I was, I felt so unsafe and naked. My skin literally crawled.
It did not help that they laughed when they knew we were aware that they were watching.
By the way, I'm not overreacting or being "too sensitive". Joy and Jonn felt it too.
Know this: both Joy and I were decently dressed. We were wearing long-sleeved tops and jeans. We did not expose anything. And yet we were harassed by a bunch of vile, disgusting beasts.
Right at that moment, after that initial surge of fear, I felt such rage at them. I wanted so much to smash their stupid faces into sizzling hot plates and knee them in the groin, to wipe that smirk off their faces.
Even just by recounting that incident, it evokes the same vulnerability and rage I was subject to that day.
The saddest part of this whole incident is that they got away scot free after visually molesting me and/or Joy. And I know that if we'd actually tried to lodge a police report that night, we couldn't have because the laws in Malaysia just don't respect women enough. We would probably have been told to just "go home and forget it, and maybe next time you should cover yourself up...and girls shouldn't be out at night anyway."
Nothing will be done, and nothing can be done, not with the attitude most Malaysian MPs have anyway. If a woman is raped or sexually harassed, it's all her fault. She was "asking for it", or maybe her dressing is too "revealing". It seems to escape the notice of those who are elected that little girls and old women are raped as well...and so was a fully-clothed, tudung-wearing girl on a bus a few years back.
So, keep blaming the women for tempting men. Blame your lack of self-control, lack of respect for women, lack of any morality whatsoever, blame your corrupted thoughts and desires on women. It's easier to justify your filthiness rather than change your attitudes...besides, a change of attitude means you can't go on being perverts, which is something (most) men won't give up.
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