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Blank Noise Project is hosting a Blog-a-thon on the issue of street harassment. If you’d like to participate, send an email to blurtblanknoise@gmail.com before the 6th of March.
Untold
Age 10 - PTC bus to tutions. A hand up the back of my skirt.
Age 13 - On the scooter with Appa on the way back from the library. Two boys pinch me as they speed by on their bikes
Age 15 - Waiting for my mother to pick me up after school."How much for an hour?"
Age 18 - On my Scooter at a signal. Car pulls up next to me, window rolls down and a man old enough to be my grandfather mouths obscenities at me.
Age 22 - Walking down the road minding my own business. Unknown hands reach out and brush against my crotch.
Age 25 - On a near empty carriage on the tube man comes and sits next to me. He smiles proud of the fact that he's wearing no underwear and his genitals are straining against his thin trousers.
Worse things have happened to others. But what binds us is our silence.
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And they ask us why we are paranoid. I feel for you Shoe Fiend. I do.
What binds us our silence. So true Shoefie, so true.
yeah i've just been following some of these posts and its sickening. I have to say *touch wood* i've never had to experience such stuff but reading these posts just makes me angry and sickening.
"What binds us is our silence" - so true... who do you talk to what do you say?
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and oh, the harrassment from pill pushers and peddlers of newborn baby gifts (er, are the babies new born or the gifts?) that is another blogathon - some other day...
Lotsa sick things've happened to me too, but I've never told anyone.. 'coz it simply depresses me. Does telling anyone make you feel better, SF? I dunno, that's why I'm asking.. I wonder who will listen to me though...
I know this was discussed earlier - but I have to say that I have been a victim of the same stuff hundreds of times - and ALL incidents happened in the open, on roads, where these horribles jerks are just waiting to pounce. And the sad part is that guys can never understand this! Most of my guy friends here in the city do not believe that such things happen in our city and they are shocked when I tell them it is true. I always drive my car with my wondows rolled up.
I hated walking on streets when I was little and defenseless. Now, I wait - so that if ANY guy on the street EVER dares to do ANYTHING - I will butcher him (I know it sounds very morbid - but I have developed this hatred after having experienced this growing up. I never used to disclose this to my mom because I knew she would be worried sick everytime I went out.
Shoefie, how right you are-it's the silence that binds us.
Nessa, we're all here to listen and support each other. And hopefully to try to do something,not be silent anymore.
I really want to hear more about why we decided to be silent about it? And how to make the next generation to open up unlike we did. Great post!
.../Keya(?) - I was stunned to read your last para. I feel exactly the same way now. I thought I was alone. But after this blogathon, I am sure no one is alone in what they went/are going through! You have a great blog, its almost like reading my own thoughts what with the same template and all! :)
wow! I want to do that meme thing the other bloggers I know do & add to this over in my blog but I don't know how to do it properly so I hope you don't mind if I cut & paste you over there.
FAB post!
I have these as well (my own)
important stuff, my friend in shoeville!
I wish I could figure out how to do linking properly...one day!
ps: have you ever seen that fab indian film "Kama Sutra"....pretty much sez it like it is for women, no?
xxoo!
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That was lovely,shoefiend.. so true what you said.. what binds us is our silence.. You know when I posted my post for this blog a thon.. i did face quite a few people saying ' I dont believe you'. 'Dont lie'. 'Where in the world do you live, where things like this happen'. When faced with disbelief..... you sometimes just wish you had not spoken up.. But then there is this part of you..that seeing so many voices finally speaking up.. is so glad.. that it had the courage to speak up. Now I just wanna stand at the top of the roof and shout out my outrage at all those bastards who are around!!!
Hi everyone! Thanks for responding and sharing your thoughts. I think this blog-a-thon has been great - it's gotten people to write, express themselves and reach out. If nothing else, I'm sure it will have made a lot of people feel a lot better having had the chance to speak their mind.
*hugs* shoefiend. Yes, bound by silence...that we are.
hey short n neat...
maybe i shud try dat..instead of long boring ones...
;)
alas, silence, for there is no one to listen.
i noticed that most of the comments are from the female perspective in this.
this reminded me of two things in my life.
one in which i acted foolishly and ignorantly. but soon after i relaized that what i had done was horrible and thank god i became wiser never to repeat it.
and the other happend years later where i was distant a frustrated spectator to an incident. frustrated for the reason that i couldnt help the victim and felt a rage as if someone had violated me.
without going into much details i would say that without changing psyche of male offsprings we cant hope for better tomorrow for females.
you may say that silence binds all these victims but silence does help perpetration of the same.
Can understand... Thinking hard if something can be done... My fiance had a horrible horrible incident just days back in a main-road in Banglore... Earl evening... 7pm. I couldn't even tell her it's alright coz I knew it isn't. Have since convinced all her, my sister and friends to buy pepper sprays... Don't know whether that'll help either...
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