Pakistani man gets sexually harassed by girls in Karachi, blogs about the ordeal

by Dawood Rehman | Published on June 4, 2016



KARACHI (Web Desk) – A young man says he was molested by a group of women in public on Tariq Road, one of the leading shopping areas in Karachi.

Saad Ilamdin, a social media blogger, shares his story with everyone to make people aware of the fact that women are not the sole victims of harassment in any country or society.
“Men get targeted too,” Saad wrote on Parhlo.com.
“No one believes men. They get mocked and ridiculed beyond measure. No one considers it a serious enough issue.
“Yet, I’m stating my story so people are aware that their young male kids need as much protection as females,” he added.

According to Saad, he was at Tariq Road on Sunday after work, looking for few things to buy. “You all know how crowded Tariq Road becomes after 6 pm, especially during Eid season. I was wandering around looking at shops when I saw a group of females approaching.”
Saad describes walking along the packed sidewalk, and encountering a group of girls.

“I moved to the side and stood still, out of respect so that the group could pass by. But unfortunately, one of the females moved her hand along my waist line!”
Saad goes on to say that one of women in the group also “groped him hard” and “walked away laughing”.
He describes being rattled by the incident. “I felt an immense amount of disgust and repulsion which made me leave the place immediately,” he wrote.
Later on Sunday, he took the issue to social media and posted a tweet about what happened to him.
However, his post was not received well by all quarters. While many Twitter users condemned the incident, others didn’t take him very seriously, calling him a “lucky lad”.

Whatever people on Twitter think about him, Saad also has a message. He says he wants people to know that sexual harassment is a common problem, and that being male or female, or looking or dressing a certain way does not bring it on or justify it in any way.

He continues: “The worst part was that I couldn’t do anything at that moment….Even if I had tried to stop them, they would have put the blame on me for harassing them, due to which nearby shopkeepers and other passerby would have beaten me to pulp,” describing the stigma surrounding men in crowded places in Pakistan, which left him with no one to seek help from.

“The thing is, that the society we live in, doesn’t recognize that men can be victims as well. But when faced with such situations, they are much [more] helpless than the women,” he wrote in his article.

https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/pakistan/pakistani-man-gets-sexually-harassed-by-girls-in-karachi/

Sexual abuse can impact men, women and transgender. That being said, the majority of victims are women and in a society where women are treated as mere chattel it is only fair that any incidents involving women catch the public eye. This is not to detract from the trauma and distress faced by men in a similar situation, the NGO Sahil and Rozan do excellent work with victims of sexual abuse and sexual assault.

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I call BS..Pakistani girls or most girls for that matter aren't that forthcoming..

Only way i see his story being remotely true, is if this guy was a known homosexual and the girls teased him.

just lolzz.

dont like the constant equivalence being drawn between challenges and suffering faced by women with that of men.. any person who has lived in subcontinent will know its nowhere near comparable.
its true that men's issues are not spoken much about but specific to grouping, molestation, rape, I would say men's will be very insignificant.. (unless you are including boys, thats a different and serious issue altogether)

i doubt this really happened, but if it did, lucky sob!
chhuri tarbooz pe giray ya tarbooz chhuri pe giray

Mevechan said:

Sexual abuse can impact men, women and transgender. That being said, the majority of victims are women and in a society where women are treated as mere chattel it is only fair that any incidents involving women catch the public eye. This is not to detract from the trauma and distress faced by men in a similar situation, the NGO Sahil and Rozan do excellent work with victims of sexual abuse and sexual assault.

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This sort of argument is what gets under the skin of people like myself. Just on another thread, everyone was glorifying the behavior of a girl who stood up for her sister and beat up the man who sexually harassed her sister. When it comes to men, we've a thousands of reasons and arguments to belittle their suffering and practically do nothing about it. "Yeah .. men sexually harassed --- but women are sexually harassed more" is the kind of argument that should get under the skin of people, because the same argument could be made in the favor of men when it comes to different types of violent crime. Why don't we do it? Because we realize that violent crime just like harassment and other crimes is gender neutral.

If the problem is gender neutral, why is the solution gender specific ?

Really?

Lucky victim

i need a map of tariq rd so i can go for a walk and if i am lucky i be too writing blog very soon.

abdulbarijan said:

This sort of argument is what gets under the skin of people like myself. Just on another thread, everyone was glorifying the behavior of a girl who stood up for her sister and beat up the man who sexually harassed her sister. When it comes to men, we've a thousands of reasons and arguments to belittle their suffering and practically do nothing about it. "Yeah .. men sexually harassed --- but women are sexually harassed more" is the kind of argument that should get under the skin of people, because the same argument could be made in the favor of men when it comes to different types of violent crime. Why don't we do it? Because we realize that violent crime just like harassment and other crimes is gender neutral.

If the problem is gender neutral, why is the solution gender specific ?

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Stating facts, how many crimes reported by men vis-a-vis women, impact factors, men CAN strike back, most women can't.

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oh poor guy ... next time wear two t-shirts ...

Men and women can equally be perverted and there is no genetic reason for women to exhibit a different behaviour than men but it is the society that establish the norms and taboos. In my experience girls in a group can be even more dangerous than a group of men.

This is a long standing urban legend in Pakistan that there are a bunch of girls 'molesting' lads , I think every college going lad in Pakistan has heard this story