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Elli Stai spoke about her own trauma, on the occasion of the #Metoo movement, which began after Sofia Bekatorou complained of sexual harassment.
In an article in the daily Ta Nea, the journalist tries to answer questions posed in the public debate, such as “why didn’t you speak”, “why didn’t you react”, etc., while also referring to her own personal experience.
As she puts it, she made a similar revelation two years ago on an Antonis Schroeter show in the context of a discussion about the obstacles a woman faces in the workplace.
“When about two years ago on an Antonis Schroeter show at ALPHA, speaking of the obstacles women face in their professional field, I spontaneously said about the harassment I had received from the greatest publishing agent of the time, 35 had already passed years. . Although my own character made me open the door and run, resigning under the threat that I would not find work elsewhere, they had neither the strength nor the feeling that I could denounce it, say it anywhere. Then I eventually buried it, trying to achieve what I wanted in my life. However, 35 years later, I also did not have the feeling that the Greek public sphere (media, political parties, professional unions) was willing to tackle this problem with the attention and seriousness it deserves. For this and only the fact that now there is not only the dimension of gossip, as it was just two years ago, should make us hope that the moment of maturity arrives and that Greek society opens the public debate on such issues, which are a critical element for the quality of our life going forward, ”Elli Stai writes.
Two years ago, in an interview with Antonis Schroeter, Elli Stai revealed for the first time how she experienced sexual harassment.
Describing comments from her male colleagues, Elli Stai had said: “The first thing I found in the first newspaper I went and worked on was the sound when I passed the men’s comments. At that time there were very few young women in the newspapers. , They were commenting on my body type, that was obvious. There’s no way I can tell you exactly what I was hearing, I was hearing a word. Come on … Omicron on the cleanser … I was hearing comments about my glutes! It’s very simple ”, he stated characteristically.
The journalist, however, also spoke about the sexual harassment she received from her manager. “From the first days, although I was still young, he taught me to do great things, great interviews. I completed them and was very happy, I said” I found a way, my value is recognized. “This lasted for two or three months, until I started accepting some invitations for coffee and so on. Until then it was fine … One day he called me at his office to talk about work, closed the door and physically attacked me directly! I said “if you don’t open the door Now, I will press the voices, I will scream! “.” She opened the door and I went out, “she described. After she left, a month later, they called her to get paid and told her that if she did not return, she would not find work in no other place.
He also revealed that he was harassed by a known politician. “I have received sexual harassment from an old politician, a very important name, who usually fell in my office! And there I got up and left, the interview was not done. In the cold, in the absolute cold! I wondered and said that doing that means continuing to do it. He should have done it before, he didn’t do it to me the first time. If you ask me if I have seen him since and spoke with this great politician, of course, when I met him outside I spoke with him, there is no doubt. He supposed, but he no longer appreciated him at all, not even as a politician. Now I had a complete picture. For me he did not exist as a politician, because you cannot be a good politician when you have these behaviors. It is excluded, it cannot be “.
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