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Women′s Rights-The Male Lead

This is beyond important.....it needs to end. It′s embarrassing.

44% of women in Mallorca have been harassed while they were exercising outside; out of that number 26.09% were physically harassed, and 91.30% were verbally harassed, according to data from a final degree project in Criminology by Mallorcan Lawyer Pep Alemany and Local Police.

Men, do you see what’s happening to women when they’re exercising, Holy shit guys. Seriously....What a bunch of pigs. And it′s not just when they are exercising. It′s everywhere. It′s happens in restaurants, bars, stores, at the beach, and on every corner. Enough is enough, no more guys, no more. No means NO!

82.7% of women choose to exercise where they feel safer; 80.7% only exercise on a lit route; 76.92% consider their schedule and who uses the route and 69.23% of women exercise with another person for safety reasons.

Have I seen it and heard it? Yes. It embarrasses me, my father hated it as does my uncle. To all the women in my life, I apologize for all of the assh%&$& out there. I apologize for not having done more than I have. It′s not just about how I act and the example I try to set, it′s about cracking down on men (pfff) who are not real men. If there is one thing I can do for the rest of my journey, it is to stand up for women's rights. 

This is what is happening all over the world. Enough is enough. It′s time for men to understand what it means to be a man. To stand up for women′s rights, to stand up for their grandmothers, mothers, wives, former wives, daughters, nieces, and friends.

It′s time for men to get some real huevos and be real men ( whatever that is, the term is tainted) instead of believing it's ok. It′s not ok. 

If you are out there and you see it or hear it and do nothing about it you are complicit.

The teaching of boys to grow to be men ( supposedly ) is something that should start at home and continue in school and since we never really get out of school because life is school, it is something that should be ever-present every day. 

I would love to say we are better than this, but clearly, we are not.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/10/almost-all-young-women-in-the-uk-have-been-sexually-harassed-survey-finds

https://www.newsweek.com/sexual-harassment-metoo-women-men-underestimate-1246485

https://reliefweb.int/report/world/ending-sexual-harassment-against-women-and-girls-disabilities

There is much work to be done.