South Africa: At the heart of the problem of street harassment are two things: 1) Men’s sense of entitlement and 2) People’s fear calling it out when it is blatantly obvious. When you are the one being targeted you feel small, vulnerable but when someone else calls it out, you realise you are not alone and that behaviour is not OK. Getting a healthy heart is easy, I walk 10 000 steps a day and am better for it — figuring out the steps needed to improve the heart of our nation and its sorry gender affairs is a bit more complicated but maybe the answer lies in smaller, everyday acts that create change, slowly, over time. I hope those two men, question themselves the next time they call after a woman and I hope I think things through before deciding to be brave.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 21:45:00 +0000
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