Greekness Comes in All Flavors

It is hard being a blonde haired blue eyed woman on a Greek island. Straight up.

Not because I look drastically different from the brown hair and dark eyes, but how the youth go about treating me.

To tourists that come to the island, and hear the “hello my sexy,” or “so very beautiful,” may be quite flattering. However, when a woman hears those comments and a handful of crude ones, it becomes annoying and almost disrespectful.

Why can I not live my day here without awkward remarks and propositions from dirty men? And why do they even think those comments work?

Italians are the worst with comments, but at least their comments are mostly innocent. It’s the compulsive touching and grabbing and then denying they touched you part that is to much. Yes, they will obviously grab you somewhere then when you show you didn’t like it, they will act like YOU are crazy for thinking THEY touched you!

I am always so impressed by Italian or Greek women because thy completly ignore the comments, no matter what is being said. Me being American, I was conditioned not to tolerate offensive comments. So instead of ignoring the remarks, I yell back just as horrible comments. But it works the opposite!! They LIKE that they got a reaction out of you!

It’s like having an annoying big brother all over again!