Definitely something more concrete should also be done- something beyond the power of ink,well, keyboards.
But this is as good a starting point as any.
I hope you guys carry on with your efforts to bring this issue up, change the situation near your college, and perhaps start the ball rolling.
There will be men (and women) who will do their very best to bring you down, but there will always be those who shall be brave enough to light the fire.
Good luck!
]]>So just to be clear M.G. Road is not better, I mean Sweden is only barely better. And like i’ve said sexual harassment is not some uneducated backward man’s affliction and I have explicitly rejected the idea that there is some inherent link between the two.
But getting to the point, and this is no longer talking about nagarbhavi, I do not think tradition is something that needs to be respected if it still believes in notions that are sexist, degrading and demeaning to women. If my wearing short clothes hurts the sentiment of ‘orthodox people’ (lets buy into your idea of them) thats okay, I want to continue hurting them. Because in their world view, my identity as an equal does not exist. If their faith involves dictating what women can and cannot wear and do, who they can sleep with, whether they can work, whether they can leave the house, who they can marry, then I do not care how many times I insult their faith.
Except if your tradition believes that those who reject it need to be raped then you are a big part of the problem.
And coming to nags, do you really think the drunk man who groped me was doing it because his tradition was getting hurt, no, they are doing it because they were brought up in a society which fed into their ugliest side and and gave them a sense of entitlement over women and their bodies which allowed them to do that. If people think sexual harassment is okay, they can give you million reasons for doing it, rapes during conflicts don’t happen because the army has a tendency to rape, it’s because conflicts happen in a patriarchal world just like traditions exist in a patriarchal world. So please don’t prescribe any higher intentions to a bunch of goons.
]]>You want to talk about feminism, sexism, gay rights and freedom of expression while hurting the sentiments of those orthodox people, whom you bash, criticize and make fun of. “Oh..you go to temple..that’s sick!” And you believe that those traditional folks out there would forget these attacks on their faith and will worship you instead? No wonder, they justify raping as a ‘lesson’.
Let’s not just blame the Nags (another of your useless patronizing term) and think of why you are averse to the rural India, to the uneducated, to those who don’t speak English. You want to be respected, first respect your elders, your teachers and your tradition!
]]>But, sure.
Bitchface out
]]>Rape culture is built on a culture of ignorance about the problem and a culture of silence because women feel their problems aren’t valid enough to be brought up.
Yes, Safe spaces are created to give us a break from real life but that doesn’t mean we start thinking safety is something we deserve only within them. That when a sexist incident happens in college everyone protests but when it happens outside we go, okay cool sucks to be us. (which is what’s happening right now, and which is also the paradox we are referring to).
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