Let me preface this with http://www.365black.com/Yes. Thank you Mr. Sxephil for bringing this to my attention. I too thought it must be a spoof, but no, its just mcdonalds pandering to the black community apparently. Fun.
I wanted to talk about the amount of pent up sexual tension in this country.
Its been really weird because of ramadan, but that just ended, so things seem to be different now that its all over. All the guys are really immature because its a sexually repressive society.
Its a bad never-ending cycle. The women back in the day were not allowed to hang out with men, so men only started seeing women as sex objects, not as people. So, whenever women (especially western women) roam around the guys always make cat calls and just gawk all the time. Its stupid. So women don't want to go out and mingle, so out in like public squares there are like 4x as many men as women (especially younger women), which only makes women less likely to go out.
A good example is this -- on the subway there are two cars for women only, which seems like something only the really traditional women wearing burkas would ride, but actually all the western women ride that train because they can't take the gauking.
Then, the cycle keeps going, women hate getting cat calls, so they start covering themselves more, and its really easy to see how
Its a bad never-ending cycle. The women back in the day were not allowed to hang out with men, so men only started seeing women as sex objects, not as people. So, whenever women (especially western women) roam around the guys always make cat calls and just gawk all the time. Its stupid. So women don't want to go out and mingle, so out in like public squares there are like 4x as many men as women (especially younger women), which only makes women less likely to go out.
A good example is this -- on the subway there are two cars for women only, which seems like something only the really traditional women wearing burkas would ride, but actually all the western women ride that train because they can't take the gauking.
Then, the cycle keeps going, women hate getting cat calls, so they start covering themselves more, and its really easy to see how
burkas and hijabs are becoming more popular. Thats why I think there is a disconnect between western cultures and women who wear hijab, and arab countries. In both cases its a religious thing, but I think in places where there is a high rate of machismo like egypt, it is more of a personal comfortability thing than in places with more cultural gender equality.
Its really pretty bad. Flirting at AUC still resorts back to 3rd grade American standards of pushing women's books around, and pulling hair, and teasing. The thing I haven't figured out yet is if the girls like that, or if they wish the men were more mature.
Thats not saying that there aren't guys who aren't mature, but it just kinda feels like those guys aren't getting any action. Hummm... Complicated. Of course it is Egypt... Unless you're married it doesn't appear that anyone is getting any action, but of course there is perhaps a growing trend away from that.
Though, something that was brought to my attention is one of the reasons that religion is taking such a strong root here in egypt is because apparently you can't get married unless you own a house/apartment!
I didn't know this, but its a law that if you want to get married to someone, you (i'm sure 99 times out of 100) the guy needs to own his own place to live. So if you're not rich enough to afford that, you can't get married, so any chances you have of living a "normal" life within society are gone, and your only option to turn to is religion! This is creating a huge rift between rich and poor, as the poor tend to have to turn to religion more. It doesn't help that the Coptic Christians are as a whole, wealthier. So, the "rich culture" is more dominated by western and Christian influences, making the rift even wider. Its a problem.
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