{"id":26274,"date":"2013-07-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/26274\/the-best-possible-comeback-to-a-sexist-attack"},"modified":"2023-08-30T07:24:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:24:23","slug":"the-best-possible-comeback-to-a-sexist-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/26274\/the-best-possible-comeback-to-a-sexist-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Possible Comeback to a Sexist Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/26274-250x204.png\" width=\"100%\"><br \/>  <i>(Photo via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/26274\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>)<\/i><br \/>  <br \/>  Nasawiya activist Sinine Nakhle held up a poster during the solidarity protest in front of the Justice Ministry on Monday that said:  \u201cMr. Imad Moussa, I wore a dress for you, is my voice heard now?\u201d<br \/>  <br \/>  She was responding to a host of sexist remarks published on both the <i>NOW Media Arabic<\/i> website by journalist Imad Moussa and the <i>Lebanese Forces&#8217;<\/i> website by reporter Vera Bou Mounsef earlier this week. <br \/>  <br \/>  In his piece, posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/now.mmedia.me\/lb\/ar\/kabse\/%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%AA%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%B9%D9%84%D9%89-%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%85-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84-%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%AD%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D9%82-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A9\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">NOW Media&#8217;s website<\/a> on Sunday, Moussa describes Nasawiya\u2019s group, saying: \u201cI thought the Nasawiya NGO was [supposed to be] focused on female survival in Lebanon in the face of male domination, as well as an effort to protect pretty girls from rape and domestic violence.\u201d <br \/>  <br \/>  \u201cWhoever thinks the ministers of this nation would [do anything] or [feel] regret for not doing anything about the parliament\u2019s decision to extend its own term [into 2014] &#8212; just because these ladies decided to revolt against it &#8212; is mistaken.\u201d<br \/>  <br \/>  \u201cI would&#8217;ve appreciated the enthusiasm from Nasawiya\u2019s ladies more had they decided to go to a [Hezbollah-dominated neighborhood] and bash the ministers there with tomatoes.\u201d <br \/>  <br \/>  \u201cCivil society movements are nothing more than exaggerated [entities, run by] fake elites, and in which women are becoming men and men just act like \u2018cool\u2019 kids.&#8221;<br \/>  <br \/>  While Moussa\u2019s comments were abhorrent, Vera Abou Monsef\u2019s piece on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lebanese-forces.com\/2013\/07\/01\/vera-bou-monssef-01-07-2013\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Lebanese Forces&#8217; website <\/a>, published on Monday, takes sexism to a whole new level. In her piece titled, &#8220;&#8216;Hey Nasawiya,&#8217; Acting a bit Feminine wouldn&#8217;t Hurt,&#8221; Abou Monsef starts the article by saying: &#8220;Maybe the group at Nasawiya needs some instruction on how to be feminine and on how to eradicate their violent and weird masculine sides.&#8221;<br \/>  <br \/>  I, for one, am mourning the days when blogs didn&#8217;t yet exist and the only thing journalism was supposed to be was objective.<br \/>  <br \/>  That\u2019s all I have to say. Objectively. <br \/>  <br \/>  And as for Sinine, dress or not, girl &#8211; you rock.     <figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"204\" data-id=\"450289\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/26274-250x204.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-450289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/26274-250x204.png 250w, https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/26274.png 412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure><\/figure>    ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo via Twitter)<\/p>\n<p>Nasawiya activist Sinine Nakhle held up a poster during the solidarity protest in front of the Justice Ministry on Monday that said:  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