Pride & joy
I dint think anything could be done about it. it was so rampant, even more than corruption in the administation. it knew no geographic frontiers. all it knew was division of the sexes. it couldn't be stopped, or so i thought. it.... sexual harassment.
boys... dont skip this. read it !
and then i read about a young woman travelling alone on a train, who was subjected to the same disgust. her name is hemangini gupta, n she dint shut up about it.
http://hemanginigupta.blogspot.com/2005/06/train-to-chennai.html
she dint do anyth innovative, she jus did the right thing. reported him to the law.
from that site, it was link after link, and i discovered so much... there really is a provision in the judicial system to arrest this behaviour, there is every subsection and article to ensure that a woman's rights are preserved. wat it takes is enforcement, execution.
i learnt about jasmeen patheja's blank noise project in bangalore...
http://blanknoiseproject.blogspot.com/
(some who read the newspaper frequently might recall her name, there was a huge article in the second page of sunday mag of hindu about her and this project)
it reinstates the fact that this issue cannot afford to be overlooked, despite its banality in today's world. i saw the donate your clothes section. wat women wore when they were teased. it is nice to prove that the self-styled moralists of the male-dominated world are amazingly wrong when they say that women are teased only due to their attire. the site clearly shows it "you did not ask for it".
it was this site that also linked to similar projects in the US...
http://streetharassmentproject.org/
http://www.hollabacknyc.com/
the things you read on the above sites are disturbing. the language used in the US is a dozen times more demeaning and disparaging.
all for one reason. the affected is a woman. it is not her skin, her face, her clothes, her religion, her location. you dont have to be miss world to be whistled at. you just need to have "certain physiological components".
every iota of eve teasing is a blaring statement saying you have no place on the road, you have to either stay where you cannot be touched or you have to submit to me. there is no acceptable behaviour. there are levels. and all of them have to be tackled. because each leads to the next.
we are weak physically, not emotionally. we are outnumbered, but we are the good guys. we cannot do black magic to castrate every molestor. we can take on this disgusting section of society one at a time. we can make a difference to our own self-confidence. we can walk with our head held high and still know we can tackle wat comes our way. because we know deep down within, it is gonna take more than a lecherous prick to take away our pride & joy.
but most importantly, we cant do it alone. we need to work together. and gentlemen, i mean you too.
boys... dont skip this. read it !
and then i read about a young woman travelling alone on a train, who was subjected to the same disgust. her name is hemangini gupta, n she dint shut up about it.
http://hemanginigupta.blogspot.com/2005/06/train-to-chennai.html
she dint do anyth innovative, she jus did the right thing. reported him to the law.
from that site, it was link after link, and i discovered so much... there really is a provision in the judicial system to arrest this behaviour, there is every subsection and article to ensure that a woman's rights are preserved. wat it takes is enforcement, execution.
i learnt about jasmeen patheja's blank noise project in bangalore...
http://blanknoiseproject.blogspot.com/
(some who read the newspaper frequently might recall her name, there was a huge article in the second page of sunday mag of hindu about her and this project)
it reinstates the fact that this issue cannot afford to be overlooked, despite its banality in today's world. i saw the donate your clothes section. wat women wore when they were teased. it is nice to prove that the self-styled moralists of the male-dominated world are amazingly wrong when they say that women are teased only due to their attire. the site clearly shows it "you did not ask for it".
it was this site that also linked to similar projects in the US...
http://streetharassmentproject.org/
http://www.hollabacknyc.com/
the things you read on the above sites are disturbing. the language used in the US is a dozen times more demeaning and disparaging.
all for one reason. the affected is a woman. it is not her skin, her face, her clothes, her religion, her location. you dont have to be miss world to be whistled at. you just need to have "certain physiological components".
every iota of eve teasing is a blaring statement saying you have no place on the road, you have to either stay where you cannot be touched or you have to submit to me. there is no acceptable behaviour. there are levels. and all of them have to be tackled. because each leads to the next.
we are weak physically, not emotionally. we are outnumbered, but we are the good guys. we cannot do black magic to castrate every molestor. we can take on this disgusting section of society one at a time. we can make a difference to our own self-confidence. we can walk with our head held high and still know we can tackle wat comes our way. because we know deep down within, it is gonna take more than a lecherous prick to take away our pride & joy.
but most importantly, we cant do it alone. we need to work together. and gentlemen, i mean you too.
posted by Livewire at
10:48 PM
1 Comments:
A pat on the back to you, girl!
It seems there's not much we can do when so many men insist on being so beastly, but at least we can keep on yakking about it until they grow so sick of hearing it they'll eventually stop :)
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Jerusha, at 1:46 AM
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