Silhouette of a woman whose breast is being grabbed by a hand

How not to prevent sexual harrassment

Silhouette of a woman whose breast is being grabbed by a hand

This graphic was taken from an Egyptian website for a campaign to stop sexual and street harrassment. The campaign itself I’m all for (despite some rather interesting wording, which may be a translation issue) but this graphic does a terrible job of representing the campaign.

First of all, the woman (who is represented by a black silhouette with a voluptuous chest and butt) appears to be naked. She also appears to be almost pushing out her breasts at the silhouette hand that is reaching out to grab her.

This might be this most victim-blamey “prevention” graphic I’ve ever seen. Also probably not the most effective.

Via Kathleen Hanna

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