“She’s not who she says she is.”

The woman smiles. “Yes,you are right. She is even worse.”

The man behind her raises his eyebrows. “How so? She is just an ungrateful girl that don’t appreciate anything!”

“What is there to appreciate? How men like you are following us on streets? How they didn’t and still don’t let women and girls to access normal things like healthcare or to be in school? How they had find clothes as an excuse for everything they do? How they had never really given women equality? What should she appreciate? What should I aprreciate?”

“I-“

“No! You don’t do anything! You had never in your life even thought about this! You will never know how is to be sure to have a plan b or to change your route on your way home,school or work because a man is following you! And you will never know how it is not to have rights! All you know is how to complain about how ungrateful girls and women are and how hard it is to be a man,because these days no woman wants to be with a man so simple!” She pauses and takes a deep breath before continuing. “And how right they are for this! How right I am for this!”

“It is not like this! We,men,struggle too!”

“I know,trust me that I know,that there are also men and boys who are raped,but even then,people didn’t accussed them of provoking someone. They weren’t blamed as bad as women are. A woman could literally go with proves at police or to people,and yet,they still would be accused and considered guilty. In every country, even where no one has right,men still have more than women. So please,tell me,how and why she is ungrateful.”

He gulps. “She had…not presented at her own wedding.”

“She had a reason even for this.”

The man place a few papers on the table in front of her.

“We have to finish this until tomorrow.”

“And instead,you rather to gossip.”

“I am sorry,alright?!”

“No! No,it is not alright! She is barely an adult,and her supposed husband is an grown up man. If you were in her place,wouldn’t have you run with the first change you get?”

He sighs. “I guess I would.”

“Have you ever heard about the phase ’run like a girl’?” He nods. “But do you know what it really means?” The man shakes his head.

“But I think that it is far away from what I think it means.”

Now,it is her turn to nods. “Yes,it is. To run like a girl means to run for your life. To run on heels,barefoot,in jeans,even naked,on mud,on rocks,in the middle of the winter in snow,in rain,in water,alone. It means to run without getting tired,because you know that if you stop,it is over. And when you can’t run,you will crawl. Think about this before looking at a woman or at a girl,and imagine that even for once in her life,she had to ‘run like a girl’ to save her own life,alone.”