Logic; Beyond Reasoning!!!

I saw this news report today morning that really got me wild and bothered! In a college in Bhopal, they've asked all the girl students to leave the college and go someplace else! The reason?!? They were made the butt of teasing by some boys, studying in the same college! Apparently, the girls distract the boys, and give rise to what is conveniently called "eve teasing"!!! How do the girls distract the otherwise, oh so diligent boys?!? By their very presence!!! Logical reasoning at its very best!!!

How much longer are victims going to be victimized further!?! The euphemism "eve teasing" has been used unscrupulously, long enough!!! Calling such hideous acts of harassment by such a mild term is sacrilegious, to say the very least! It's so unfair that the girls who are at the receiving end of such acts, are themselves blamed! It is a widely accepted idea that the girls bring it on to themselves! How many times have we heard people talk about these acts of violations being done unto girls who don't dress decently enough, or who don't get home before the onset of the dark night! Almost always, the real issue gets clouded over by these, what can only be termed as meaningless and prejudiced, explanations! Do such acts of crime deserve to be defended; let alone by curbing the freedom of a few human beings, only because they are girls/ladies/women, call them what you will!??!

A lot has been done, and is still being done, to stop these acts of harassment of women (like i said, eve teasing is too mild a term, and makes it seem like some harmless, childish prank; which, believe me, it is not even close to!), but, a long path still remains to be charted. From a post in a blog that I regularly haunt (http://basia.blog-city.com/saints_then_sinners.htm), I learnt about this group of women who have started something called the Blank Noise Project. These women work to curb the spread of these acts of harassment, both through their blog (http://www.blanknoiseproject.blogspot.com/), as also by taking their cause onto the streets. Please do check their blog for more information about the wonderful work they do.

Curb not her freedom, curb not her right,
Not every man, for his life, has so hard, to fight!
Don't hold her in, don't rein her in, oh so very tight!!
Eve teasing is harassment, not a term, so light!!!