Girls are not ever allowed to look a man in the eyes. We have to keep our heads lowered like a dog to be reminded of our place as lesser than. It was endless. The word for shame was snapped at me in a loud whisper thousands of times throughout my childhood. “Eib! Eib!” It was the only word I heard more often than haram. In whatever culture, if Islam is the dominant religion, there are variations of the word eib being spat at girls. Somali girls hear ceeb and xixhood; Turkish girls hear ayip; in Malay, girls hear aib; in Pakistan, girls hear hiya, etc. Girls are all hearing this because the
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