Eve Teasing: My View
Last month Gaurav posted his views on his blog this post. Then subsequent posts expressed other views here. 1 & 2 & 3 & 4
I though may be I would like to write about it.
We need to understand the need to dress. We dress to protect ourselves from environmental factors like heat, cold, sun, etc. In west people dress in short clothes in summer to enjoy the sun which they miss mostly during winter. Did anyone ever saw someone is short clothes in winter? Our clothing should match with the environment of the place where we live. Having said that, each grown up is capable of taking a decision of what is good for him/her in that place. So we should not force our views of what is good or bad on others.
One of the examples which features in all above post is each of eve teasing and it is then compared with a woman wearing a lot of jewelry. I support Gaurav on this point because the attack on such woman is not a property/feature of good society. If she acknowledges that she might be robbed it is her practicality and such assumptions are not good for healthy society coz we are justifying the thieves in this case.
Other example is lot of talk of culture and blah! blah! Well, no book/literature specifies that wearing any type of clothes offends any culture. If a culture is offended by such limited bounds like clothes then how it can be applied to diverse people. Culture is not about what you wear. On the contrary our culture does tells us to respect women. Do we do that in case of eve teasing?
If a girl refuses to wear clothes she likes because of eve-teasers, then she has compromised due to reality. By doing so, we have also attacked her basic freedom of choosing what she wants to wear. Once a mob/group starts eve teasing it does not restrain itself to girls wearing short skirts or minis. The mob does not have a purpose it does it only for sadistic pleasure.
Let look at the thought process of a eve teaser. Has anyone ever seen a lone guy teasing girls? Why?
So as a individual we think it is incorrect but as a group we think the same process as correct. Why?
Because what we do as a group really does not matter. We just want to do something for fun. Or may be because there are no laws to punish a mob/group. Our basic thinking is at fault. We consider any action in relative terms. If there are 10 people backing one stance and only 1 backing the other, chances are 99% of us will believe that the mob is correct because 10 people have less likely chance of getting a thing a wrong. We need to see actions in absolute terms for deciding what is correct or incorrect.
I consider the supporter of other stance same as Taliban. Play football in pathanies because shorts are not in our culture. For a split of second imagine Sachin adjusting his guard in his dhoti. Aha! Imagine you have to wear dhoti each day because that is what our culture will say if we interpret it by bounded materials like clothes.
I though may be I would like to write about it.
We need to understand the need to dress. We dress to protect ourselves from environmental factors like heat, cold, sun, etc. In west people dress in short clothes in summer to enjoy the sun which they miss mostly during winter. Did anyone ever saw someone is short clothes in winter? Our clothing should match with the environment of the place where we live. Having said that, each grown up is capable of taking a decision of what is good for him/her in that place. So we should not force our views of what is good or bad on others.
One of the examples which features in all above post is each of eve teasing and it is then compared with a woman wearing a lot of jewelry. I support Gaurav on this point because the attack on such woman is not a property/feature of good society. If she acknowledges that she might be robbed it is her practicality and such assumptions are not good for healthy society coz we are justifying the thieves in this case.
Other example is lot of talk of culture and blah! blah! Well, no book/literature specifies that wearing any type of clothes offends any culture. If a culture is offended by such limited bounds like clothes then how it can be applied to diverse people. Culture is not about what you wear. On the contrary our culture does tells us to respect women. Do we do that in case of eve teasing?
If a girl refuses to wear clothes she likes because of eve-teasers, then she has compromised due to reality. By doing so, we have also attacked her basic freedom of choosing what she wants to wear. Once a mob/group starts eve teasing it does not restrain itself to girls wearing short skirts or minis. The mob does not have a purpose it does it only for sadistic pleasure.
Let look at the thought process of a eve teaser. Has anyone ever seen a lone guy teasing girls? Why?
So as a individual we think it is incorrect but as a group we think the same process as correct. Why?
Because what we do as a group really does not matter. We just want to do something for fun. Or may be because there are no laws to punish a mob/group. Our basic thinking is at fault. We consider any action in relative terms. If there are 10 people backing one stance and only 1 backing the other, chances are 99% of us will believe that the mob is correct because 10 people have less likely chance of getting a thing a wrong. We need to see actions in absolute terms for deciding what is correct or incorrect.
I consider the supporter of other stance same as Taliban. Play football in pathanies because shorts are not in our culture. For a split of second imagine Sachin adjusting his guard in his dhoti. Aha! Imagine you have to wear dhoti each day because that is what our culture will say if we interpret it by bounded materials like clothes.
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