It turns out a lot of women are just fine parroting the patriarchal norms about sexual harassment in Egypt.

Samah El Saghier was 16 the first time she experienced sexual harassment. The perpetrator was in his 70s.

While El Saghier was walking with her sister and cousin to her uncle’s house in Port Said, a northern Egyptian town close to the Suez Canal, an elderly man cycled up next to them and said “the most disgusting words you can ever imagine,” she says. Shortly afterward, the man chased the girls into their relatives’ apartment building, stripping off his clothes as he did so. “We were there frantically knocking, and by this time he’s completely naked,” El Saghier says. Her aunt opened the door just in time.

Eleven years later, while en route to a Cairo restaurant with a friend, a male passerby fondled her rear end. This time she exploded, repeatedly hitting her attacker in the face with a thermos she was carrying. “I was hysterical, you know: ‘Why do you touch me? Why do you touch me?’” she recalls asking. A few days later, she told her female boss what had happened. It was then that the questions so familiar to Egyptian victims of sexual harassment began. “What were you wearing?” her boss asked. “Maybe you tempted him.” While El Saghier might have expected another woman to understand, the statistics don’t back that up. In fact, 84 percent of Egyptian women agreed with the statement, "Women who dress provocatively deserve to be harassed," compared to just 70 percent of men.

Eric Swalwell, an ambitious California congressman, takes his show on the road, where even losing could mean winning a Cabinet spot.

Presidential candidates routinely claim they have experienced the hardships facing ordinary Americans. What makes Eric Swalwell — the visual and dispositional archetype of every golden-haired, strong-jawed, preternaturally confident oldest son of White suburban parents — different is that he is still experiencing those hardships, as he tells it.

You have student debt? So does this 38-year-old University of Maryland law grad, who informs voters that his family still has close to $100,000 to pay off. Apparently, congressional health care isn’t such a boondoggle after all, because the California Democrat is still on his Ritz-Carlton sales director wife’s plan. Struggling with the shuffle of raising young kids? With a son and a daughter both under age 2, Swalwell stumps with stories about getting Tamiflu for his sick newborn and searching for baby-changing stations for dads at the Capitol.

Murthy killed dozens of people, but then he devoted his life to stopping other would-be killer elephants.

Murthy had killed 28 people when the Kerala government issued an order that he could be shot on sight. Within a week, the serial killer who’d been terrorizing the South Indian states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu fled into deep forests nearby. When the forest department tracked him down that summer of 1998, they chose to spare his life … and convinced him to join the police force. Murthy, a 9-foot-tall Indian elephant, would soon go from a killer to a kumki, a trained pachyderm who helps capture and chase away wild elephants who wreak havoc on human settlements.

Between 2015 and 2018, human-elephant conflicts led to 1,713 human deaths and 373 elephant deaths in India, according to official data. While electrocution and poaching remain primary causes of death in elephants, encroachment on elephant habitats has led to increased attacks on humans. Wild elephants in musth (a periodic condition in males where hormones rise and the animals become aggressive) are known to be extremely dangerous both to humans and to other elephants. Murthy had trampled and gored his way through the region, even as locals shot at him.