So it's official, southern France is rotten.

[Meneldil]

With my new job (journalism), I've been moving quite a lot throughout southern France in the last 6 months. Meeting a lot of people, and - what interests me here - a lot of young women.

They brought something to my attention that I, as a male, couldn't really notice. At the time being, if you're a female and walking around town, there's a 100% chance you'll be hit on by half a dozen douche/scumbags, called a "slut" a "whore" or even a "jew" if you ignore them or if you don't answer favorably to their "demand". If you go to a bar at night, there's a 100% chance some guy will grope your ass or your breasts, and then also call you a "whore" when you tell him to .

This hit me in the face yesterday. I went to have some drink with one of my new coworkers, and she kept telling me how bad it was. How she recently decided to stop going out at night alone, how she stoped wearing skirt or any dress that let some skin outside (she's not the only woman who told me that in this city). We talked about that (and other things) for a few hours, and then when I left her, guess what? Some scumbag - who's been sitting not far from us all that time- tried to get her cellphone number and called her a slut when she refused. And on the five minutes walk it takes her to go back home, she got harassed two other times. And it was 8PM.

Call me a racist-fascist-nazi-jerk, but needless to say, this is mostly done by... yeah you guessed it right, young arabian males (which explains why "whore" is sometimes replaced by "jew").

Despite not living far from it, I rarely went to Nîmes until not too long ago. I always thought all the people who kept saying how bad it is were making things up. But no, they weren't.

How did we let this happen? I have no idea. But this is disgusting. How come young women have to deal with that daily? Who decided they're pieces of meat to be played with and disposed off when you're done?
I'm not a die hard feminist, , this is simply not acceptable.

I've spent eight months in a in Canada, and was told a billion times how men there were annoying. But my girlfriend could dress however she wanted and go wherever she wanted without being harassed by some drunken (or not) sexually frustrated . Every time she came to France I had to tell her "I'm not sure wearing this would be a good idea actually".

What is going on here?