Can safety be granted for carefully dressed women?
The blame game is going on in the Guwahati molestation case, and many culprits are still at large. It is only the 16-year-old victim who paid a heavy price for raising her voice against a rude remark from a guest at a friend's birthday party. The way India's National Commission for Women (NCW) is conducting investigation in the case has really shamed the world's largest democracy where women rights should be taken for granted.
AFTER REMOVING one of the NCW members Alka Lamba from the fact-finding committee for naming the victim, another shocking statement has come from NCW Chairperson Mamta Sharma. She said that women should be “careful about the way they dress because such incidents are a result of blindly imitating the West,” The Indian Express reported. Some women organisations and NGOs in the country have demonstrated annoyance on her remark.
Urmila Jaishankar, the Chennai based CEO of Kampoter Solutions, India, says, “It is an insult to womanhood. If she is teaching women to dress properly, she should also comment on the male attitude towards women which is more responsible in these cases.”
When a reporter asked the Chairperson, should there be a dress code for women to ensure their safety? She replied that it is not right to give blanket direction after 64 years of freedom and set a dress code. But be careful about how you dress. She agreed that the biggest challenge before the NCW is changing the social mindset of discrimination against women.
It would be right to say that the rise in rape, and molestation etc., and crime against women have developed into a societal issue. Violence against women is a routine affair in India. Recurring incidents barely create a ripple beyond the initial hue and cry. Many people in our largely patriarchal society are completely insensible to such happenings. This indifference and callousness only worsen the situation and paves the way for more crimes.
“Actual problem is that whenever media highlights these cases, the victim always get blamed for dress. I am sure this remark is against the victim as she was in shorts and tee at the time of molestation. In India shorts and tee still consider western dress. However, in my view, it’s okay for teens to wear it,” said Tanamia Khol, a student from Kendriya Vidhaylaya, Jodhpur.
The NCW Chairperson should equally give a lesson to males for their attitude and teach them how to behave with women before asking women to properly dress. She should emphasize on awareness. When there are hoardings and ambassadors to stop tabacoo, smoking etc., there should be also hoarding to stop rape, molestation and crime against women. At least, it will teach some moral values to a male-dominated society.
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Curious Bear
I can only quote Eve Ensler:
MY SHORT SKIRT
It is not an invitation
a provocation
an indication
that I want it
or give it
or that I hook.
My short skirt
is not begging for it
it does not want you
to rip it off me
or pull it down.
My short skirt
is not a legal reason
for raping me
although it has been before
it will not hold up
in the new court.
My short skirt, believe it or not
has nothing to do with you.
My short skirt
is about discovering
the power of my lower calves
about cool autumn air traveling
up my inner thighs
about allowing everything I see
or pass or feel to live inside.
My short skirt is not proof
that I am stupid
or undecided
or a malleable little girl.
My short skirt is my defiance
I will not let you make me afraid
My short skirt is not showing off
this is who I am
before you made me cover it
or tone it down.
Get used to it.
My short skirt is happiness
I can feel myself on the ground.
I am here. I am hot.
My short skirt is a liberation
flag in the women's army
I declare these streets, any streets
my vagina's country.
My short skirt
is turquoise water
with swimming colored fish
a summer festival
in the starry dark
a bird calling
a train arriving in a foreign town
my short skirt is a wild spin
a full breath
a tango dip
my short skirt is
initiation
appreciation
excitation.
But mainly my short skirt
and everything under it
is Mine.
Mine.
Mine.
Popat
Being a male, I am saying that the fault lies with men, not with women. If boys have thr ight to wear whatever they like to, why not men? It is the cheap males on the streets, which have brought fear among the Indian females. But, they should wear whatever they are comfortable in. Even if it means a micro skirt or a saree.....
Arslan
Instead saying that women should dress properly , she should have said that men should behave properly and women should keep in mind about their dressing according to the environment and the location they are in.
kripal
Actually the problem is that these ladies at NCW are bit confused about what to say.
Brishti
of course not. We live in a society that justifies rape with the fact that women wear western dresses. in such a society where felons are given the benefit of doubts, no women is safe. Be it a sari, salwar kameez or hot pants dresses are not the issue but mentality is, which unfortunately no one wants to change.
Geetika
Why our administration is fearful to become strict with these spoil brats....
Gunjan
Things will change only when heart and mind change....thought process and their devilish nature should be given a very strict treatments..
Karuna
rightly said in article what about those 70 or 80 year old women....were they also wearing such short skirts....bullshit remarks by a so called woman "Mamta Sharma"
Rajan
Change in dresses will definitely not change anything...only a strict law and police can bring change in this society of such devil people....
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