Monday, August 20, 2012  Here's where I stand on the Eid
harassment photos  Women were harassed during the Eid al-Fitr
holiday in Cairo. It's abhorrent and should be stopped. I fully
support that. I also fully support spreading harassers' pictures
across the globe and calling their mothers AND aunties.
However, it DISGUSTS me that whoever caught these images on
camera - of women being harassed, boys grabbing women's behinds,
etc - did not bother to blur the victims' faces before spreading
the images across the internet. Did it not occur to you that
these poor girls' privacy has already been invaded enough? Would
you post a picture of your little sister - who looks barely 14 -
having BOTH of her breasts grabbed by two different boys behind
her? Would you want that picture to go viral? No? Well I've seen
that picture floating around tonight.  The argument that it
takes too long to blur the faces and it's better to just get the
pictures out there is COMPLETELY inexcusable, in my opinion. As
a photographer, espe