![]() ![]() Purity and had a certain dignity, there is today an emerging "genre" ofī-grade skin flicks that showcase "sexy" heroines in slinky costumes. Unlike the Hindi film heroine of yesteryear, who was largely the epitome of It's all about men imitating all the dangerously sexist images of women that Their homes, their respectability and security is being threatened by men Respectable position in a society which was - and still is - essentiallyīut today when our women are becoming more independent and stepping out of Traditionally, our women, though confined to a homemaking role, held a very In India, ironies never cease, especially when it comes to women. The censors haven't even looked at the social implications of such videos on Videos like these come to mind and infuriate me. So when I read in the papers that a woman was assaulted in a train, music People copy moviesĪll the time: when Superman came out, kids jumped out of buildings thinking Moving images influence people, sometimes adversely. Then they begin a dirty dance inside the compartment. There is one video in which a man on a train has a drink and sees a properlyĭressed girl morphing into a little sex kitten in a bikini top and a slit Girl's anatomy, accompanied by vulgar and crude remix music which single-mindedly murders On view are videos where the camera zooms in and out of the There's tooĮven I feel embarrassed to watch some of the television in front of my Why should men stalk our women on roads, tease them on buses and trains, andĪssault and rape them when five of our 29 states are run by politicallyįor one, I think it has to do with a sex explosion in our media. Why should women feel unsafe in a country which had an internationally Sometimes I wonder why some men behave like barbarians. Today I am privileged because I am a star and always surrounded by security.īut what about the women in my country? Who is going to protect them from Incidences like these take away a woman's Since my reflexes are pretty sharp I immediately grabbed his hand, traced itīack to his body in the crowd and gave him one tight slap. I remember shopping in a crowded area in Delhi a few years ago with myįriends when I felt someone pinch my butt. Like a piece of meat, then they get a dose of my theory. In life I have a "one tight slap" theory: it means if anyone makes me ![]() Range from catcalls to sexual assault of women.Ī lot of women in India have a story of "Eve teasing". It sounds rather biblical and innocent but "Eve teasing" can I do not feel safe on the streets, neither do a lot of women in India.Īnd why is that? It is because of a phenomenon we in India call "Eve ![]() I haven't forgotten myĬulture or my values. Therefore, today I am the modern Indian woman. If my life was a film, then my father would be my ultimate hero. Independent, confident and master of my destiny. I watched the inky shadows seep across the remains of the evening and thought about what had brought me to this existence.Today he is not there but I am everything he wanted me to be. It goaded me into riskier and riskier acts. No, the danger came from my own self-disgust. ![]() I wasn't even worried about the others of my kind - they tended to slink around in the shadows, or blow a lot of hot air without ever following up on their empty threats. If the guy who'd rescued his friend tried to report me, they'd likely prescribe some drugs for him and place him in the same category as people who saw flying saucers. I had to laugh at that one - if they only knew there were much worse things out there than gay sex! I wasn't worried about the human justice system catching up with me, as no one actually believed in vampires. Various theories abounded that it was a hate crime, while others blamed the victims, characterizing the attack as some kind of divine vengeance for their immorality. I read newspaper accounts of the event: there'd been an attack at a popular gay cruising spot, blood had been found, but no victims would come forward. I had once been like them: weak, oblivious of the dark, full of the petty concerns of day to day existence. I had come a far way from the humans on whom I preyed. The next evening, the post-coital bliss of the hunt had worn off, and I sat contemplating my own monstrousness. ![]()
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