Would you like to sleep with me tonight?

Read this article written by a Muslim Singaporean girl who is helping out at YOG:

The day I said no to a creep 

She got hit on by one of the YOG delegates from overseas, who also placed his thigh touching hers even after she had moved away from him. Others like her got propositioned. More reports from Wanbao and Shinmin newspapers and summarised in Temasek Review. And also here.

This is what happens when you bend over backwards for the whole world. They start thinking that any and every single one of you is so eager and easy, beginning with our women.

When more than a few of your invited guests start acting like that way before the party commences, are you supposed to:

(1) Stand up for yourself and tell them off/ call the police/ kick them in the balls,  

OR 

(2) Suck it up coz the show needs to go on? 

The show? Show for who? Why are we putting up a show at such an expense? These harassment incidents have been reported for the past 2 weeks. What has been done about it? Some of these female volunteers are students (from 18 years old onwards). How are they expected to be able to protect themselves?

Where are those 'brains' behind this show when something like that goes wrong? What are they doing about the situation? Do I hear the organisers mumbling about how common such incidents are at these international events? If so, did the organisers knowingly leave these women (girls) out there to deal with such harassment issues on their own? Or perhaps these 'brains' see such incidents as 'sunk costs'? If those women were your sister or wife, would you still think it's ok or simply 'inevitable'?

The parents of these girls must have felt that it was ok for their kids to volunteer for a government-backed/organised event, on the assumption that due diligence must have gone into ensuring the safety and security of their children. Nobody expects a government-backed/organised event to be mismanaged, especially when it's advised and managed by so many high-powered individuals (Ministers, Administrative Service Officers, MPs, people from the private sector, the press etc).

This has turned out to be a case of misplaced trust, and an analogy of what Singapore has become. Those in power invite foreigners to Singapore for their gratification, in exchange for international attention and growth potential. All at the expense of taxpayers' money and our people (in this case, our girls). 

I don't think this is how virtuous promiscuity is supposed to turn out to be. At least, not so literally.
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By the way, these girls can lodge police reports and/or magistrate complaints as words such as "Would you like to sleep with me tonight? Can I bring you home tonight?" can constitute insulting the modesty of a woman. The contact of thighs episode can also constitute outrage of modesty.