SlutWalk in Delhi will be called 'Besharmi Morcha'
THE SLUTWALK will be Indianised, now. The desi version of the walk will now be called 'SlutWalk 2011 arthart Besharmi Morcha'. 19-year-old Umang Sabharwal, who is organising the walk in Delhi, told MAIL TODAY that the name had been changed to make the SlutWalk- event more inclusive.
"We changed the name after a group meeting. Not all people in Delhi will understand the meaning of '@#$%'. So after a lot of debate and discussion, we have finally zeroed in on Besharmi Morcha . This way, more people in India will understand the real concept,” Sabharwal, a student of Kamla Nehru College, said.
The walk, which was originally scheduled for June 25, has been postponed to the last week of July.
"We are yet to finalise the date and the venue,” Sabharwal said. The organisers are expecting more participation as the colleges will re-open by the end of July.
The Facebook page for the event — @#$% WALK DELHI — will soon be updated with the new name and the exact date of the event. Till now, about 17,000 people have confirmed their participation.
This walk, the organisers hope, can bring about a change in the patriarchal mindset of the people in Delhi.
The @#$%Walk was originally started by a group of women in Toronto in reaction to a Toronto Police-constable’s statement: "Women should avoid dressing like @#$%s in order not to be victimised.” The movement spread like wildfire to the rest of the world and now Delhi is gearing up for the same.
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This hue and cry about slut walk is a creation of desperate feminists who want to give the women's lib movement a bad name.Have we ever asked the question as to what compels a woman to dress provocatively? Feminists claim that it "empowers" her. But in what sense? It can never be denied that a woman dresses scantily only to attract the male attention.It is solely driven at sexually stimulating him to the point that a man gazes at her for a longer period of time than he would have usually done.Feminists claim that she is empowering herself in this way. Others feel that she is only considering herself as a sex object and is merely using her sexuality to draw the male gaze. Will a woman dress similarly in the presence of other women.No,never. What is being termed as "empowerment" only reinforces the fact that many women themselves consider themselves as sex object and do not hesitate to use their sexual charm to control men.If we are serious about protesting that men should not treat women as mere sex objects, then the responsibility is also on women to see to it that we ourselves do not end up treating ourselves as sex objects that some of us are so keen to display themselves for the male gaze.
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