“I want every girl to know and really understand that she is worthy of respect and that she is equal to all men. God created the female after the male not because she is less important but because she completes the scene — the world is not right without women….I want every man to know the he is worthy of respect as well, and his identity is not in his world-defined ‘masculinity.'”
Powerful words on catcalling and how it transcends culture. Natalie is an exchange student with Globalscope El Oasis in Chile, and is definitely worth following to learn a little bit more about life there!
I was going to stay quiet on this subject, but I think it deserves a little bit of (controlled) noise.
When I first arrived here, I noticed that I received a lot more stares and interested glances than when I’m in the States. That makes sense — I’m a white-skinned, blue-eyed foreigner. I gradually stopped noticing and started ignoring it; however, I’ve been noticing again, more recently, how many of these stares are coming from men. People say that this, along with catcalls and such, is just part of the culture, but I don’t necessarily think that’s a fact that should be shrugged off and accepted.
The other night, I had a conversation with a couple other girls from my program here, and we all agreed that we had never really felt unequal to men in the United States — we’d just heard of other people feeling this way. One…
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