Being sexually harassed on the street is always horrifying.
It’s scary to think that at night time or even in broad daylight, plenty of women daily report occurrences of sexual harassment – whether it be catcalling, groping or slut-shaming.
It’s disgusting.
One Irish-Australian student, Niamh Annie O’Keeffe, moved to study abroad in Ireland for a year.
But she was horrified at the amounts of casual sexual harassment she witnessed – one case outside a club where a woman was grabbed by the hair by a man she didn’t know and dragged away – on the streets of Dublin and chose to fight back.
Speaking to Her.ie, the star of The Niamh Show discussed how the song was conceived:
“With the general attitude towards feminism and bloody “lad culture” both in the US, Australia and Ireland plus that man from the club… These events were the inspiration for both the status and the mermaid song”
The clip shows O’Keeffe dressed as a mermaid, singing about the difficulties of gender inequality and playing the ukulele. What a HERO!
We need more feminist singing mermaids in the world!
