http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.a263b3b0a90b3db7df0ca33948d697d6.81&show_article=1
Here is an article about women being banned from wearing jeans at colleges in Uttar Pradesh, the state I'm living in now. Supposedly, it's to protect women from sexual harassment, but really, it's the men who should be punished, not the women.
I've seen some girls wearing jeans here, but definitely not as many as in Delhi. Sexual harassment in India is called "Eve-teasing." One night in Delhi, we happened to be running late getting back to our hotel, and we were walking through the streets a little after 10 pm. We probably got at least 5 comments from the men around us, but I couldn't understand because they were said in Hindi. We're not supposed to go out alone after dark. I will follow this rule because it's safer and smarter, but it still makes me angry.
If the responsibility for sexual harassment is always put on women, how will it ever end?
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When women cover up, shut up and stay inside their homes. When will you learn, my friend?
ReplyDeleteI would also like you to know that some girl I'm friends with on facebook but hardly know just posted her blog about India. She posted, then deleted the first post citing that it was "sub-par". Then she proceeded to post an obnoxiously long and dull message about every detail of her day, sprinkled with commentary but really just narration of her life. The point is, you are a far better blogger. I'll link you to hers, though, if you're interested.
I'm not sure that it ever will end; but perhaps out-dated patriarchal systems will eventually just fade away.
ReplyDeleteNothing "just fades away," Mom. You have to fight them.
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