Miss Peru pageant contestants share violence against women statistics instead of body measurements

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[quote=ABC News]When it came time for contestants at this year's Miss Peru pageant to give their waist, hip and bust sizes, more than 20 women instead recited facts about trafficking, femicide and harassment.

Leading the protest was Camila Canicoba of Lima who said "my measurements are: 2,202 cases of femicide reported in the last nine years in my country".

The winner, 20-year-old Romina Lozano, said her measurements were "3,114 women victims of trafficking up until 2014", on the most watched show in Peru on Sunday (local time).

"My measurements are: the 65 per cent of university women who are assaulted by their partners," Bélgica Guerra, representing Chincha, said.

"My measurements are: more than 70 per cent of women in our country are victims of street harassment," contestant Juana Acevedo said.

The organisers also projected newspaper clippings of stories about violence against women as the contestants posed in bikinis at a theatre in the capital city, Lima.[/quote]

Read more at [url]http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-01/miss-peru-pageant-turns-into-violence-against-women-protest/9109566[/url]

[Sanjuaro]

I'm glad they did this. In Chile my former wife endured sexual harassment including a man on a bus saying he wanted to lick her pussy with cheese. I mean come on, really? After her death one girl I dated for awhile had a taxi driver make advances on her right in front of me while we were getting a ride somewhere. I hear and see countless of other situations besides these. It's honestly sickening.

"Machistas" are unfortunately something that's part of the culture here. Obviously not with everyone, but it's prominent enough to notice. It's good to see more support for women appearing in this part of the world.

[Maestra Fénix]

Machism in general is worldwide spread under one way or another, although I'm glad that in the last two decades the activism has finally accomplished to make people realize how extended it is.