A culture built upon manly domination is the real problem.
Not Islam.
And sometimes the more the veils try to protect and hide women,
the less they serve to their purpose.
Although religion is certainly not a support for the aknowledgment of gender equality,
culture is even bigger when it comes to the attitute rooted in the society towards women.
In Egypt, 24-year-old actor Waleed Hammad decided to experience what it feels like to experience the assaults firsthand :
dressed up as a woman, he walked the streets of Cairo both veiled and unveiled, and filmed the experience.
and here some thoughts about the experiment :
“When I put on the veil in the experiment, harassment became more
vicious and in your face, so it's not a problem of covering up," Hammad
said, explaining that his experiment proves wrong the argument that
covering up is the solution for sexual harassment.
“It's all about domination, it's not about sex. The more the woman is covered up, the bigger the challenge because it seems as if she's putting more and more layers to be protected. This excites the men who feel like they have to dominate women in order to feel worthy."
He added, "I doubt it's ever really about sex, because sex is available to those who want it and want to find it. It's not a matter of ‘I'm not having sex thus I'll take it out on women’. No, it's about domination.”
“It's all about domination, it's not about sex. The more the woman is covered up, the bigger the challenge because it seems as if she's putting more and more layers to be protected. This excites the men who feel like they have to dominate women in order to feel worthy."
He added, "I doubt it's ever really about sex, because sex is available to those who want it and want to find it. It's not a matter of ‘I'm not having sex thus I'll take it out on women’. No, it's about domination.”
