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Women fear sexual harassment during Songkran

By Editorial
Posted in News from Thailand
Tags: , ,
March 29 2017

Women are more likely to experience sexual harassment during Songkran than during normal days. The Women and Men Progressive Foundation and the Stop Drink Network are therefore calling attention to this problem in a petition to the Office of Women's Affairs and Family Development. For example, they want women to be better protected during Songkran.

Ying, 25, says many women are afraid of the upcoming water festival. During Songkran there are quite a few drunken men walking on the street and they sometimes get annoying and touchy. She herself had a nasty experience with a group of men two years ago. She is still anxious on the street because of the incident at the time. Women also think that the unruly behavior during Songkran creates a negative image of the festival among foreign tourists.

A recent survey of 1.793 women under the age of 40 found that 51 percent experienced some form of sexual harassment during Songkran.

Source: Bangkok Post

Number of times read: 223

11 Responses to “Women Fear Sexual Harassment During Songkran”

  1. Geert says up
    29 March 2017 at 11: 52

    It is really time someone intervened, the current songkran has nothing to do with the songkran party as it is meant to be.
    It is becoming more and more extreme and is a license for drunks to let go of all brakes.
    The increasing numbers of fatal accidents, rape women and violent crimes every year should spur the government to do something about this “party”.

  2. henry says up
    29 March 2017 at 13: 17

    It is mainly the foreign tourists who behave in the tourist hotspot like a herd of wild jungle inhabitants, with a total lack of any form of acceptable social behavior.

  3. Marc says up
    29 March 2017 at 14: 39

    Sorry Henry, but I disagree with you. It is precisely the Thai roosters who can no longer control themselves with a large gulp too much in the stomach (and the blood). Of course there will also be non-Thai “guys” who cross the line, but they are mainly Thai men. If you look at the list of traffic incidents during Songkran, mainly drunk Thais are involved. The Thai women also agree that it is mainly the Thai men who misbehave.
    Something must indeed be done; TV campaigns, more expensive alcohol, heavy fines or even better prison sentences, and so on.

  4. Tino Kuis says up
    29 March 2017 at 15: 21

    Songkran has been a party for hundreds of years where everyone went crazy with all the, sometimes nasty, consequences that entails. A bit like carnival. Do what you would otherwise never be allowed to do. This has been complained about in the past. There is no 'as it was once intended'. But it is also true that in some places where civilized Westerners hang out it is even rougher.

    See here Chiang Mai resp. 1975, 1927, 1927

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7KUpM5bKjQ
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awYbhc7B4fs
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daB-edS3C-o

    • Tino Kuis says up
      29 March 2017 at 15: 46

      Sorry, nr 2 and nr 3 are the same……..I once again drank too much….:)

      • danny says up
        29 March 2017 at 19: 57

        dear tina,

        Thank you for the nice and valuable contribution of songkran from many years back.
        There were plastic buckets in 1975, but not a single water gun.
        Fortunately, the enthusiasm of the population has always remained the same.
        I forgive your drinking… the videos were a successful contribution.
        Cheers from….Danny

  5. Piloe says up
    29 March 2017 at 15: 22

    I have experienced at least 25 Songkran festivals, mostly in Chiangmai.
    The Thai youth celebrates exuberantly, but correctly. Who stand out for a total lack of sense of what can and cannot be the tourists ! Especially English and Americans.
    Songkran is the Thai New Year. Everyone puts on their nicest clothes, even if they know they're going to get soaking wet. That is also important for the Thai youth to successfully go on a girl or boy hunt.
    Those uncivilized tourists don't understand that and walk around half-naked, drinking without shame with their bottles in their hands, shouting foreign drunken songs and spraying water in your ears or eyes.. and continue to do so when it gets dark and the Thais stop.

    So I don't agree with Geert at all. He probably has it on the foreigners in Pattaya.
    In Chiangmai, Songkran is the best experience of the year if you keep to the traditions.

  6. bona says up
    29 March 2017 at 16: 09

    For several years we have been going with Songkran, to the family is a quiet village in the Isaan.
    Some joy, many congratulations, a little water on the wrists and some white powder on the cheeks and forehead.
    All together with a snack and a drink.
    LOVELY!!!

  7. Hermanus says up
    29 March 2017 at 16: 17

    After diff. Songkrans
    The -ladies-especially the bar-ladies don't go unpunished either
    Often get rid of the meager clothes they still have on, have a drink and throw themselves into the festivities.

    Then they ask that some men become touchy, although of course there are those who take their chance right now
    That's the booze, disrespectful -tourists–

    • Tino Kuis says up
      30 March 2017 at 04: 02

      "Then they ask for some men to become affectionate…." You probably mean handcuffed?

      I think this is an extremely stupid comment. Reminds me of Prime Minister Prayut's statement a few years ago that beautiful women should not walk around in bikinis because that would be an invitation to rape. He later apologized for his words.

      Everyone is responsible for their own actions.

  8. Do says up
    30 March 2017 at 17: 43

    Just celebrate Songkran for one day and not 6 days like in Pattaya. This is of course easy
    and you only have one day of misery, which of course the party should not be.


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