Preys Among Foxes

" Preys among Foxes" is the article I recently read about new girls entering a boarding school when they come to study at university. It is written by a female university student in Agadir. In her article, she describes boys as foxes and girls as preys. The bottom line of her article is that many girls fall prey to boys during their university days in that these girls lose their dignity as a consequence of boys' 'foxy' advances. Many girls, she writes, experience kissing, touching of all sorts, dating, etc. For her, boys are harshly to blame because of their attracting, exploiting and lying to these girls. Some other girls, she adds, even go on to lose their virginity for the reason that boys have seduced them into this immoral result. All this boils down to the fact that the writer of this article, a female university student, defends girls and does her best to exonerate them of almost all immoral incidents befalling girls. Frankly, I felt bitter hatred and repulsion reading her article. In response, I would say that no matter what the excuses girls come up with to blame men and to exonerate themselves, girls alone at boarding school and university are to blame. I am not convinced by any excuses the writer has provided except one which she did not mention at all in her piece. It is raping. Raping is the only vulgar thing for which boys are harshly to blame. Apart from it, nothing else is convincing to me, especially that female university students are mature enough to judge what is moral and what is not, to detect who is lying and who is not, and to refuse to accompany boys wherever she goes. As long as girls are not forced by the hand to accompany boys, there will be no use crying over spilt milk if anything happen to them later. Girls falling prey through raping by force are excused and need to be highly defended at all costs. Girls falling prey through raping as a result of sweet-talking and accompaniment are not excused and need not be defended. My last message to this writer is that try to criticize seduction rather than the result of seduction and try to reconsider who is the prey and who is the fox. Personally, I have never seen a prey who enjoys being approached by a fox. On the contrary, the prey normally runs away the fastest possible the minute a fox is in sight.

By Omar BIHMIDINE