A Way Out, a Facebook page dedicated to using the power of film to empower women, has released an incredibly provocative short film showing how one Egyptian woman turned the tables on a sexual harasser.
The film, titled " His Cucumber," details an encounter that Nora Labib had with a man who crudely propositioned her on the street.
After the man came on to her in a degrading way, Labib confronted him directly, by calling his bluff and telling him that it was fine he was treating her like a whore, but that she had the right to decide if he was properly equipped to satisfy her.
"Take off your pants and show me, because I have the right to pick," Labib said in the film. "It's my right, as a woman and as a whore, to pick."
By reversing the roles of harasser and victim, Labib is able to show the viewer – and her harasser – that such crude come-ons and catcalls aren't compliments, but instead degrading insults.
"They need to learn how to regret, because most of them don't know how," Labib said. "They are just like dogs, they run off when you shout at them."
While the provocative video has garnered A Way Out a number of degrading and disgusting messages, many of which the administrator has posted in the comments, it has also been shared more than 2,000 times and viewed over 200,000 times.
A Way Out is the brain child of Sharine Atif, who turned to film to escape the cycle of abuse in her early life.
"These films will move you and empower women to find a way out," Atif said on Facebook. "People will see that women do not have to surrender to the unfortunate circumstances they’re born in."
Check out the video on Facebook.