In a city known for harassment, women will pull out their skimpiest clothes to demand respect
By Jason Overdorf
Women from India's North Eastern states hold placards during a peaceful protest against the rape of a girl from Mizoram, in New Delhi on November 29, 2010. Police are yet to make any headway in arresting the four men who abducted and sexually assaulted a call centre employee, from Mizoram. The 30-year-old woman was walking towards her home in Moti village in south Delhi on November 24, along with one of her colleagues when men in a vehicle allegedly abducted her and took turns to rape her. The victim was later dumped in Mongolpuri after which she approached police. (PRAKASH SINGH/AFP/Getty Images)
Following in the footsteps of fellow feminists in Toronto and Melbourne, Delhi women will strut the streets in the city's first "slut walk" June 25 to protest against sexual harassment and violence against women, the Hindustan Times reports.
Slut Walk was first held in Toronto this year after a police officer outraged women world over when he said in a speech to university students "women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized," the paper reported.
Since then, it has spread to 60 cities worldwide in an effort to draw attention to a continuing tendency to blame the victims of sexual assault for "asking for it."
Notably, after several incidents in Delhi over the past few years, various police, city and university officials have made similar comments regarding the dress and behavior of women who were the victims of sexual assaults.
2 comments:
Use your brian guys, just watch this before going to this walk:
http://www.answerbag.co.uk/q_view/2470822
18-year-old dalit girl raped, 14-year-old blinded for resisting assault in Uttar Pradesh !!!
what is this going on???? Instead of promoting this stupid walk, I think people should work on the real solution. Its about time. These people are themselves saying that dressing is nowhere related to rape, then why the hell are you misleading people. Why can't you work on the real solution? Give punishment to the rapist in front of everyone(may not be death), this way even the illiterate would come to know about the crime done & the punishment given. Otherwise when you publish news in newspapers, the real criminal never come to know whether punishment is given or not. Because they are all illiterate. As simple as anything. Wake up and stop this publicity stunt.
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