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Title: Eve-teasers, cross-dressers and crimes in Carrefour
Post by: Shana A on July 07, 2010, 07:32:01 AM
Post by: Shana A on July 07, 2010, 07:32:01 AM
Eve-teasers, cross-dressers and crimes in Carrefour
By Annabel Kantaria
http://my.telegraph.co.uk/expat/annabelkantaria/198/eve-teasers-cross-dressers-and-crimes-in-carrefour/ (http://my.telegraph.co.uk/expat/annabelkantaria/198/eve-teasers-cross-dressers-and-crimes-in-carrefour/)
Shopping malls in the Middle East, it seems, are hotbeds of immoral activity. So much so that Kuwait has just announced the creation of a new, all-woman moral police force, whose job it will be to trawl the malls looking for "negative phenomena."
By this, they don't mean potential shop thieves and pick-pockets; rather, the new moral police force has been tasked with chasing "genderqueers, transsexuals and transvestites" (defined as "men imitating women and women imitating men") as well as other mall pests such as "flirtatious young men and women, beggars and rowdy people."
Men making advances to women in public places is taken very seriously in this part of the world, where it's an offence known as "eve-teasing".
By Annabel Kantaria
http://my.telegraph.co.uk/expat/annabelkantaria/198/eve-teasers-cross-dressers-and-crimes-in-carrefour/ (http://my.telegraph.co.uk/expat/annabelkantaria/198/eve-teasers-cross-dressers-and-crimes-in-carrefour/)
Shopping malls in the Middle East, it seems, are hotbeds of immoral activity. So much so that Kuwait has just announced the creation of a new, all-woman moral police force, whose job it will be to trawl the malls looking for "negative phenomena."
By this, they don't mean potential shop thieves and pick-pockets; rather, the new moral police force has been tasked with chasing "genderqueers, transsexuals and transvestites" (defined as "men imitating women and women imitating men") as well as other mall pests such as "flirtatious young men and women, beggars and rowdy people."
Men making advances to women in public places is taken very seriously in this part of the world, where it's an offence known as "eve-teasing".
Title: Re: Eve-teasers, cross-dressers and crimes in Carrefour
Post by: spacial on July 07, 2010, 11:51:39 AM
Post by: spacial on July 07, 2010, 11:51:39 AM
While this may seem ominous, at first, there are some oter issues here that may not be apparent to the European mindset.
When I am in Africa, if I am introduced to a woman, she is frequently very freindly with me. The reason is that there is no expectation, on her part, nor anyone else's that I will see this as any sort of come on.
I don't want to generalise here. African and Asian cultures vary enormously. In my part of Africa, many woman are very demuir. Women who don't know me are almost always so, unless they are very mature.
But social behaviour is very rigid. I once put my arm around a cousin. That utterly destroyed our relationship. My wife completely understood.
In many societies, women expect to be able to wander around, unmolested. When people, for any reason, seek to prey upon their apparently friendly disposition, it does cause serious offense.
It's sad about cross dressers and transgendered people of course.
When I am in Africa, if I am introduced to a woman, she is frequently very freindly with me. The reason is that there is no expectation, on her part, nor anyone else's that I will see this as any sort of come on.
I don't want to generalise here. African and Asian cultures vary enormously. In my part of Africa, many woman are very demuir. Women who don't know me are almost always so, unless they are very mature.
But social behaviour is very rigid. I once put my arm around a cousin. That utterly destroyed our relationship. My wife completely understood.
In many societies, women expect to be able to wander around, unmolested. When people, for any reason, seek to prey upon their apparently friendly disposition, it does cause serious offense.
It's sad about cross dressers and transgendered people of course.