Ask Lady Xeno
enough pope jokes. time to get down to business
to defeat the nuns
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Apply cold water to the burned area Gaga
people say gaga is nice.. someone who calls people fat isn’t nice.. bitch
thank you adele.
the only thing “fat” about adele is the amount of zeros on her paycheck
Adele, you are a role model! You aren’t fat.
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I didn’t know satan has a car, always saw him as a motorcycle sort of guy.
He uses a car for rainy days and winter.
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VIGILANTES ARE TAGGING EGYPT’S SEXUAL HARASSERS WITH SPRAY PAINT
Despite worldwide publicity and campaigning, the approach to actually solving the sexual harassment epidemic in Egypt has sadly been a pretty apathetic one, with police giving less than a gram of shit about the situation, leaving street perverts to grope away until their hands are content. So it’s perhaps no surprise that anti-harassment groups in Cairo have gone vigilante, taking what’s left of the law into their own hands and patroling the streets to fight the harassment epidemic themselves.
We first heard about “Be A Man,” one of the more radical anti-harassment campaigns, from a story on NPR. The members of the group patroled during the recent Eid al-Adha festival celebrations, armed with cans of black and white spray paint, attacking, pinning down, and scarlet-lettering the shit out of grabbers and gropers with the words “I Am a Harasser.” Mostly men themselves, the activists wore matching fluoro jackets with “Harassment Prevention” scrawled across their backs in Arabic. I spoke to Muhammad Taimoor, leader and founder of the campaign, about their controversial tactics during the festival.
VICE: Hey Muhammad. Can you tell me a little bit about what’s been going on in the past few weeks?
Muhammad Taimoor: Yeah, we’ve been working against harassment with our campaign, “Be a Man.” A big problem here is that women-only carriages on the subway are being invaded by men who are then harassing the women onboard, so we’ve been working against that. It was Eid a couple of weeks ago and we were expecting that would be a particularly bad time for harassment. In the three days of Eid that I participated in, we caught about 300 cases of harassment—that’s 100 every day.Wow, good job. How do you “catch” these cases?
Our tactics this time were pretty violent—a lot of people were offended because they didn’t like what we were doing. Basically, we attacked the harassers and spray-painted “I Am a Harasser” on anyone we caught in the act. The police weren’t at all supportive of what we were trying to do and they clearly weren’t ready to keep Egyptian women safe during Eid, so we did all the work on our own.Why did you choose tagging with spray-paint as a tactic?
Because, in our society, a girl blames herself when she gets harassed. When she speaks out to her family about it, they blame her. Sometimes they prevent her from going to school or going outside because they think that sexual harassment is the girl’s problem, not the harasser’s problem. So, when our group attacks the harasser, the girl feels confident in herself. She feels like she was right, she feels like the street is supporting her. She’ll have the confidence to walk in the street without fear and she won’t be afraid to speak out if it happens again.GOOD JOB
Anyway, I think protecting the girls is more important than respecting the law, so it wouldn’t really change anything.
That’s a really powerful statement right there. I highly recommend giving this a read; while at first I thought “you grab them and spray them with spray paint isn’t that like assault oh my god let’s not get to crazy here” but then I read the rest of the article. And now I don’t think it’s so crazy. Is it optimal? No, but nonviolent methods aren’t working, and I have to agree that protecting these girls is more important.
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Agreed
Totally agree. The police should be doing their job. They don’t like that the harassers are being harassed by this group but if they don’t like that, they should be attacking this situation at the root, which is at the sexual harassers.
As for non violent techniques…you cannot just go “oh, can you please not harass that woman anymore, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you and have a good day.” That doesn’t work, at all. I like what these guys are doing.
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I wouldn’t want to change places with you and it isn’t because I’m white. It’s because you’re pretty darn racist to judge people before you even know them just because they are white. So next time, dude, don’t be so judgmental because it might not be because of your color, it might be because they are happy with their lives and wouldn’t want to change, even if they have some sort of disability. Okay? Okay. Don’t be too quick to judge or bring out the race card because it would look like you are the racist.
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Guys this is really important.
CBS just posted an article saying that 20 states have petitioned to secede from the American union now that Obama is president again.This means, that if they reach 25,000 signatures in 30 days, the petition can be reviewed by the government administration.
The states that have petitioned to secede are as the following: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.
Texas already has over 22,000 signatures and if they have enough support they could very well be removed from the United States.This is very important guys, please signal boost this, tell your parents. This effects the entire country and everyone needs to know.
what is this shit
fucking FLORIDA GOD DAMMIT
this shit is scary
YOU STOP THAT RIGHT NOW, NEW YORK! YOU ARE A BLUE STATE, COME ON!
“reliably separatist Texas”
THAT WAS ONE TIME.
(Unless you count the times we were French, Spanish, Mexican and our own nation too. In which case. Point.)
Bloody hell… :I
Goddamn it Kentucky
Wait wait wait.
Oregon?
As in the place where I live?
I don’t fucking think so.
Crybabies who can’t take losing an election.
Americans are getting to be more of whiny bitches by the day.
Whining about them being whiny, kind of ironic, huh? Maybe if Obama didn’t make it harder to live in America we would be fine.
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there is no friendship in mario kart
it’s all fun and games until somebody picks rainbow road.
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