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Egyptian women's rights protest marred by hecklers
OP - March 09, 2011, 03:31 AM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110308/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_women_s_protest

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CAIRO – A protest by hundreds of Egyptian women demanding equal rights and an end to sexual harassment turned violent Tuesday when crowds of men heckled and shoved the demonstrators, telling them to go home where they belong.
The women — some in headscarves and flowing robes, others in jeans — had marched to Cairo's central Tahrir Square to celebrate International Women's Day. But crowds of men soon outnumbered them and chased them out.
"They said that our role was to stay home and raise presidents, not to run for president," said Farida Helmy, a 24-year old journalist.

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At Tuesday's march, men scolded protesters and said their concerns were not urgent in the aftermath of the uprising. When the women argued back, some were verbally abused or groped. Others were beaten and had to be ripped away from the groups of men.
Mostafa Hussein, 30, said many protesters had to flee the area and hide in a park nearby.
"They were running for their lives and the army had to fire a shot in the air to break up the mob chasing them," Hussein said.
Passant Rabie, 23, said she was surprised that the women were abused after the role they played in the uprising. Women were central to the protests, leading chants, spending cold nights in the square and even fighting during the battle of Black Wednesday, when pro-government henchmen attacked the protesters.
"I thought we were going to be celebrated as women of the revolution because we were present during the days of Tahrir," Rabie said. "Unless women are included now, we are going to be oppressed."
On the occasion of the International Women's Day, U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, said on Tuesday that the transitions from autocracy in Egypt and Tunisia would be incomplete as long as half of society remained blocked from participating in governance.
"The United States will stand firmly for the proposition that women must be included in whatever process goes forward," she said.

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Re: Egyptian women's rights protest marred by hecklers
Reply #1 - March 09, 2011, 08:58 AM

Egyptian post-Mubarak democracy... hurray....

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Reply #2 - March 09, 2011, 03:17 PM

These men better know who's cooking their food. >_>;

Women will fight harder and ultimately get what they want, especially with a lot of support from other countries. It's history repeating itself again, Egypt and much of the Middle East is just a century behind.

I know there's that whole argument 'Oh women should stay at home and take care of children blah blah' Well men can do it too. '
While they compare Western women for leaving the children at home to go work, we actual have some men who are stay at home fathers and take care of kids just as much as women do. Maybe not very many but they are there. Stereotypical gender roles are changing slowly. Heck when my own parents divorced when I was only 3 my father took care me, in fact he fought in court to make sure I stayed with him. Single dad, imagine that, and he was poor. Now I'm going to one of the best animation colleges in the country because of his hard work, my second college. That deserves respect. In the West there are hard working women who can hold a job and raise kids. That deserves respect. Being confined to the home doesn't automatically make you the perfect wife or mother. It's much deeper than that. Some idiot men just don't get it. Those days are OVER.

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Re: Egyptian women's rights protest marred by hecklers
Reply #3 - March 09, 2011, 03:27 PM

Quote from: Bardhi_i_zi on March 09, 2011, 08:58 AM
Egyptian post-Mubarak democracy... hurray....

La lucha continua...

The political revolution must be followed by a social revolution. This is pretty typical. The struggle for liberty always has successive stages and in each stage some group gets left behind and must struggle in the next stage for their inclusion. Think of how long it took the landless, women and Black Americans to achieve the liberties promised by the American Revolution.

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Re: Egyptian women's rights protest marred by hecklers
Reply #4 - March 09, 2011, 06:30 PM

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