The Friday night movie series showed three (3) short documentaries about women’s rights.  The documentaries were Myanmar: Whistle For Help, She, and Women’s Desire. The one that I found to be the most interesting was Myanmar: Whistle for help.  This film highlighted how young girls and women are frequently sexually assaulted by middle age men on crowded buses in Myanmar.   I found it incredible that many women in Myanmar described these assaults as something they just had to live with and accept.   Many of the women blamed themselves for the assaults.   Myanmar was described as a very religious society and yet these middle age men think that sexually assaulting a girl as young as 10 years old is somehow ok.  It’s obviously completely disgusting.  And just as unbelievable, the government did not do anything of substance to stop it.   Fortunately, a small group of women started a campaign to make people understand that what these men were doing is wrong, and that everyone could help to stop it.  This small group of women started handing out whistles to both men and women on buses, and told them to blow the whistle if they observe a man acting inappropriately on the bus.   Unbelievably, the group was worried that the government may arrest them for handing out the whistles even though they are trying to stop this disgusting behavior against innocent young girls.  The women handing out the whistles also worried that men would physically retaliate against the women for speaking out about the behavior.  Fortunately, the government did not arrest the group, and no retaliation was taken.  I really like the whistle campaign and the community activism.