The Egyptians are blaming the nearest woman for the Ever Green

[JohnnyRingo]

Actually, she wasn't the closest woman, but she was the nearest female captain, a rare anomaly in the Middle East. ...actually, Captain Marwa Elselehdar wasn't within hundreds of miles of the Suez Canal at the time, but face must be saved, and she chose to leave the Genie Bottle.

Egypt's First Woman Ship Captain Marwa Elselehdar Blamed For Suez Canal Blockage Despite Not Being On Boat
Elizabeth Blackstock
For Jalopnik

The saga of the Ever Given was a beautiful one while it lasted—is there anything funnier than a large boat getting stuck in the narrow Suez Canal?—but it’s had lasting supply chain effects that are pretty miserable. And that’s not even as bad as the flack that one woman—Marwa Elselehdar—is getting for a role she didn’t even play in the event.

Elselehdar, 29, is Egypt’s first-ever female ship captain, and when the Ever Given blocked the Suez Canal, she realized that people were placing her at the center of the fiasco. People were using social media to share a doctored screenshot of an Arab Times headline that claimed she was at the helm of the ship at the time it was stuck. It appeared that the headline had been altered from a March 22 profile of Elselehdar praising her successes. You can see the doctored headline here. https://www.arabnews.com/node/1833276/media

The news came as a shock to Elselehdar, who was working as a first mate on the Aida IV vessel near Alexandria, which is hundreds of miles away.

And that wasn’t all. People began making Twitter accounts with her name claiming responsibility and furthers spreading the false rumors.

“I felt that I might be targeted maybe because I’m a successful female in this field or because I’m Egyptian, but I’m not sure,” she told the BBC this weekend.
Continued here at Jalopnik:
https://jalopnik.com/egypts-first-woman-ship-captain-marwa-elselehdar-blamed-1846615718

[Pachamama]

1. Chilling example

The idea that such effort was made to immediately frame a woman and the amount of players that participated shows societal misogyny and how women are viewed.

I hope that she is indeed cleared of any possible association and that this false accusation is publicly decried and an apology made by any authorities who were quoted or suggested she had responsibility and that the press shows what was done that wronged her.

[JI7]

2. There is nothing to clear because this is like blaming Hillary and Pelosi for the Capitol attacks

It's mostly shitty men who can't deal with a woman being in a place they think only belongs to them.

[niyad]

3. Thank you so much for sharing this. Not in the least surprised. Would you consider cross-

posting in Women's Rights And Issues? Thanks in advance.

[dalton99a]

4. Kick

[sarisataka]

5. Ever Given /nt

[malaise]

6. My mother taught my father to drive

That is all