What has been revealed in recent days
As it became known, in the last few days, 6 complaints of sexual violence reached the police, while 7 women from the entertainment venue decided to talk about their own experience.
Sofia Bekatorou took the first step, Zeta Douka turned her attention to the spectacle and then, Aeolos' bag has been opened for good. Day by day we see more and more new revelations with perpetrators who in our minds were until recently heroes and victims we could not have imagined. The #me too movement, although it started in 2006 in America and grew in 2015, with the Harvey Weinstein case, finally arrived in Greece and a few days later in Cyprus, and it seems that it will change our society once and for all. As it became known, in the last few days, 6 complaints of sexual violence reached the police, while 7 women from the entertainment venue decided to talk about their own experience. See below what has been revealed in recent days about the theater space on our island.
Androula Kafa: Through a long text on her personal social media account, the musician Androula Kafa describes the harassment she experienced from a young age in the theater. Specifically, she wrote in a post on Facebook: A friend of mine in high school tried to drown me. He tried to get me pregnant. He constantly put in humiliating situations jays whatever jays shout at him in a stop. I was overwhelmed, unable to escape, I fell into depression. I was a jerk and I knew what to do. I visited a monastery for “spiritual” help. I found myself in a room with a monk. I opened my soul to him asking for help. He told me to get up to hug me to make me feel better. I was introduced. The hug immediately became a handful of jay enough to rub on me. I sighed and left.
Before I was involved in a theatrical work, my boss was a gentleman, relatively well known, whose inappropriate behavior towards his colleagues is well known. Every time he was beaten, he came out to me so smoothly that I wanted the earth to open up to swallow me. He sent me messages in invalid hours ji elen me to take me taxis poji jai poda. He insisted on paying me more than we agreed because “you never know”. I was going to go to work, aba jai, I see the one in front of me, or abba jai happens to be jai, I find myself alone with him. I saw him jogging girls in places that should not, jay j j j others in front, jay no one finds it remarkable. I recently met a girl who told me that they had met him a few days before work, and they told her to meet alone at night to “get to know each other better”. These gums we know the gums, they are made in front of our eyes, nobody cries anything. Why; Why do we let them do what they want? How far does this thing go? How do you know what else they can do, or what they have already done?
Obviously these questions are not addressed to women who are the object of this violence. It is our duty to tell our experiences in order to change things. After all, the problem is institutional.
However, the environment plays an important role in the preservation of this culture. That's why those of you who know what's going to do with nothing, it's time to make up for your indifference. The next time you see even a trace of harassment or misconduct, be interested. You ask us if we are ok, you help us to complain instead of turning around or safeguarding your own interests. The knot has reached the scallop ji those who are silent in complicity, dot jai dash.
Know that these behaviors I describe are not at all extreme. For us women in normalcy. These gums are circulating around the world like jays in their right to treat us like that. They make us want jays and continue their course without even realizing that one day they may have consequences.
It means so much that we will never open our mouths.
So they are wrong.
EDIT: I get messages from several girls with similar experiences who are thinking of talking. Thank you for your courage and your trust. Know that the more we are the more protected, jay the harder it is to challenge us (this applies jay in general but jay as far as official complaints are concerned). Whatever you want, feel free to send me a message. We can do this! ”
CONTENT WARNING: sexual violence / harassment A high school classmate tried to strangle me. THE…
Posted by Androula Kafa on Saturday, 23 January 2021
Christiana Artemiou: Christiana Artemiou during the Breakfast of Love FM 100.7 made a revelation that shocked everyone. Specifically, during her conversation with Tassos Tryfonos, the actress said characteristically: “I also received sexual harassment. Fortunately it lasted for a while, I was 24-25 years old … When you first enter the theater you are afraid to stay … There was from before the flirtation … but at the time of the show, while I was waiting in the quinta to get out, he came behind me, took me and put his hand inside my skirt. I started to tremble “.
Maria Christodoulou: Listening to the experiences of her colleagues, Maria Christodoulou decided through one of her posts to talk about her own experience. “I saw a lot, I accepted more and you are silent, silent, why are you afraid? why is the admiration greater, so that others are not hurt, so that the theater itself is not hurt? […] The only reason I write is because really what some moral and shocked and fair friends do on fb even though I had forgotten, their attitude made me remember …. To remember why I can not go to scene because when I go to the theater I have a palpitation …… Because there were times when I had a good time that Kamarini was full of laughter and love, but unfortunately crying in Kamarini the “observations” the camps and the hands under costumes were more … “she wrote characteristically on her personal Facebook page.
The “hierarchy” that prevails in the Cypriot theater is the ticket for bullying for sexual and psychological …
Posted by Maria Christodoulou on Thursday, 28 January 2021
Iliana Arabi: The Cypriot actress, Iliana Arabi, who participated in the TV hit “Tattoo”, spoke on Sissy Christidou's show “Ela Hamogela” and revealed that at the age of 17, she was sexually harassed by a well-known Greek comedian.
The actress, originally from Limassol, clarifies that this is not one of the names that have been heard in recent days. Among other things, the actress said: “The reason I decided to talk about this actor now is because I saw him support women, knowing what he has done to me. I became furious, saying that he knew everything that is happening in our space. But I know what he did to me. I'm talking about a very, very well-known comedian, who was my teacher at the drama school. I had come to Greece at the age of 17.5 to study and after a while he started flirting with me, but he was very discreet at first. Then he started flirting with me more intensely, I was totally negative, until one day, he called me at 10 in the morning, he was masturbating on the phone, he was talking to me very rudely and asked me to join him. I told him I had him as my dad, my legs had been amputated. I was an innocent little girl, from an island, 17 years old. I had an idol man and when it happened I was shocked. He was one of my favorite actors. I told my parents, I did not want to go below. I learned that this situation continued with other girls as well “. The actor, however, claimed that everything he did he did out of love.
Andri Eleftheriou: To date, many incidents related to the spectacle have been revealed, however, on our island, Andri Eleftheriou made the beginning – who, although she spoke in the past about what she experienced as a sports player, did it again now, that is, a moment when society was ready to listen. Specifically, on January 21, Andri reported to the Police her sexual abuse in two cases, by a former member of the Cyprus Olympic Committee. However, the said agent was interrogated on February 9 in writing and according to information from 24news, he denied the accusations. In fact, he gave his own allegations about the case, which are expected to be investigated by the authorities.
