Some shocking things have happened to me over the years but none so shocking as yesterday when I walking with Annette to work. We were meeting a working girl who was pregnant (with her boyfriend) and had decided to keep the baby. We were heading to the doctors to get her checked out when as we were walking a man passed by me, reached out and grabbed my boob. He just reached out and grab my boob! Can you believe it? Can you believe it? So..... I punched him.
I think that if anyone that day deserved to be punched (and there were a few who annoyed me), that sorry excuse for a man deserved it. Yes I am aware I am a Christian missionary (and shouldn't do that sort of thing) but I was completely gob smacked. How dare he think that he can treat women like that. We weren't even in a rough area, in fact we were in a very nice area so I really didn't expect it. In some areas of Athens men hang around just to watch the women and try and get a feel. Not that it is right to do so but I do hang around in areas of Athens that has a lot of prostitution – I guess it's the nature of the job. There instead of punching people I scream at them, but even then I haven't had someone just reach out and grab my boob. How much worse must it be for girls who sell themselves for sex? Just because they do that does not mean that these men have the right to them. I bet many times during the day they feel like punching people and worse. I bet it makes there skin crawl just as much as it did mine. The difference is they can do nothing about it. They have to take it because they offer themselves to it. I however will not take it and I’m glad I punched him. Now I don't want to come off all feminist but I believe women deserve to be treated with respect. We are not sex objects, you cannot do what you want with us. we are your mother, your sister, your cousin, your aunty and we will bear your children. Think of anyone in your life who is a female and then think would you do the same to them? I hope he will think twice next time before touching a women like that again and that the bruise will remind him that he was punched by a woman whom he should not have been touching.
