Many thanks to Michael Laudahn for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Transcript:
0:06 | Two years ago I moved to Brussels. | |
0:10 | They say about big cities that people no longer talk with each other in the streets. | |
0:16 | But this was not quite so. | |
0:21 | ||
0:54 | [male suggestion inaudible] | |
0:55 | (F) [No] Thank you. | |
0:56 | (M) Are you all right? | |
0:57 | (F) Pardon? | |
0:58 | (M) Are you all right? | |
0:59 | (F) I'm all right. | |
1:00 | (M) Are you heading for lunch? | |
1:01 | (F) Yes. | |
1:02 | [inaudible, probably suggestion to accompany her] | |
1:03 | (F) No, thank you. | |
1:04 | [inaudible, another suggestion] | |
1:05 | (F) No, thank you. | |
1:06 | (M) Whyyy? [probably more which can't be heard] | |
1:08 | (F) Huh - yes, a little. This is molesting, in fact. | |
1:10 | (M) Where are you from? | |
1:12 | (F) I'm from Brussels, but this is molesting. | |
1:14 | (F) Pardon? | |
1:15 | (F) No phone, no. | |
1:16 | (M) How could we be together? | |
1:18 | (F) No thank you. | |
1:19 | [another proposal to go to his home and have coffee, as far as I can hear] | |
1:23 | (F) Don't you understand? I don't want to. | |
1:26 | etc [denigrating sounds, remarks] | |
1:32 | (Tramp) | |
1:34 | (Whore) |
3 comments:
I watched a documentary years ago now. The journalist Simon Dring drove all the way to India (re-creating the "hippie trail")
When he was in Islamic countries the women were harassed no end. It was really appalling. They couldn't walk down the street - one girl had to run to escape a possible rape situation.
The men were unapologetic. Dring interviewed a group of them as they sat smoking outside a shop. They saw Western woman as pieces of meat to use sexually - in the parlance of so-called feminism, as sexual objects - and that was all there was about it.
Now they're here.
And their behaviour is not a surprise.
Pretty woman, walking down the street ...
Whore, tramp, slut ...
It's a cultural thing.
One of these days, one of these days...pop zoom!!!
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