Sexual Harassment

Yesterday, I read a lot of blogs on sexual harassment thanks to the Blank Noise Project page. It obviously made me ponder. But I didn’t want to end up writing the same stuff again. Yes, that’s the fact which frustrates me. Different blogs, different experiences, yet they are all the same. Similar feelings of frustration, humiliation and annoyance.

It also reminds me of the innumerable discussions I used to have with my friends, aunties, my mother and colleagues on their harassment experiences, i.e. if they have faced any, and it wasn’t a surprise at all that there were none who didn’t had to go through it. This makes me wonder, how many perverts are out there?? Now that’s a scary thought!

Imagine them going around in their respectable manner, being responsible at work, loved by their children and wife, once in a while yelled at by a stranger of a woman for pinching her and normally no one noticing their arm extending out to stroke a bum. Yikes..If all the women out there complain of being harassed, surely it can’t be an act of few men. And if there are so many perverts out there…..hell, why is that?

Is it the Indian “under veil” attitude towards sex which suppresses emotions but maybe comes out in such horrendous ways? :) We always find something or the other to blame...don’t we? Aren’t the men who behave in such character less manner responsible for their actions? Will a stringent punishment for eve-teasing help in reducing such crimes? Also, maybe a different attitude of society towards the women getting harassed, they definitely are not asking for it!