Harassment
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The kind of
harassment
that women face in Pakistan is very serious and leads to sometimes deadly outcomes.
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We were exposed to harassment, exploitation, intimidation and discrimination.
So in addition to promoting those proactive solutions, the other thing we need to do is upend the hate in our institutions and our policies that perpetuate dehumanization and difference and otherizing and hate, like systems of sexual
harassment
and sexual assault in the workplace, or our deeply racially imbalanced and deeply racially biased criminal "justice" system.
So for example, outreach workers who are distributing condoms to vulnerable populations are not themselves subject to police
harassment
or abuse or arbitrary arrest.
That's lifetimes of women dealing with men who assume they know better for us than we know for ourselves, being the property of husbands, landowners, and having old, white men tell us the fate of our lady parts; lifetimes of having our bodies used for love and objects of desire, instead of bodies that we get to wield and use as we choose; lifetimes of knowing that whether we play by their rules or not, we still have to tolerate harassment, assault and even worse; lifetimes of our bodies being used as property that can be hit and hurt, manipulated and moved and like objects that are not deserving of respect; lifetimes of not being able to express the anger of our bodies.
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