To my friends and fellow bloggers who regularly visit my blog..............
sorry guys, since the last post I have been partly busy and partly suffering from lack of enthusiasm about blogging and visiting other blogs. So, Im taking a sabbatical for the moment and will be back soon (i hope!!) Hopefully, Ill be back soon with many interesting things to share with all of you. Until then, ciao.
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Saturday, July 09, 2005
OH MY GOD!!
I try to refrain from forming words with capital letters especially when Im writing a mail to someone or while Im chatting. According to etiquettes of chatting and emailing this is supposed to refer to shouting and I strongly believe in that. But I had my insides screaming in despair and anger when I read through a recent post. When I wrote, A full circle, I knew that I was only scratching the surface of the phenomenon of sexual molestation. Besides, I knew that I would never have to go through such a thing and would never really fathom the psychological effects such an incident could do.
Why am I saying all this, wooaaooww gave me this to read, a real life experience of a twenty something girl travelling alone by train, and it was rude slap on the face differentiating between reality and fictional piece of writing.
Theres not much I can do except write about it. To say I felt sorry for the girl would be the biggest understatement this side of the Atlantic next to "Bush sucks". First she has to go through the worst physical torture not to mention being very scared as to what can happen to her next. As if this shit ain't enough for her, she then has to go through some emotional blackmailing. Truth is I felt really sorry for her when the perpertrator put her through some crass emotional blackmailing and make her feel guilty for doing what is right. Im glad she stuck to her guns and filed a criminal complaint against that guy. Reading that post made me notice a few things which I would have overlooked as indulgent, mischievous or harmless.
Heres something that I noticed last weekend after reading that post. I was waiting for my flight to Chicago along with many others crowding on both sides of the exit ramp coming off the gate. There was this beautiful girl on the other side wearing a pair of jeans and a white t-shirt showing off a little of her assets. Before we go any further, let me clarify that she wasnt dressed provocatively in any way. So, when the flight landed at the gate and the passengers started exiting, I couldnt believe my eyes that 9 out of every 10 males exiting the plane had two glances at her. One at her beautiful visage and the next, a fleeting (almost reflexive and involuntary) glance at her dress' plunging neckline. I was aghast, at the number and the different kinds of male entities that indulged in this. Married, unmarried, young, old, it didnt matter. To say that I didnt indulge in it myself would be perjury. But, after noticing this I knew that I would never be able to look the girl in her eye and say two kind words to her. There are girls who get turned on by being the focus of attention of every male stranger but this was different. Brazenly ogling has been so common, I guess by now its become a birth right for the male species these days. "Feminism is a misconception that women are people!!!" This was a bumper sticker in some car near my house; this is what its come to now.
To Lone Warrior, read the above post then you'll understand what I was trying to convey in the previous post!! No frivolous inspirations from Hindi or Tamil cinema :)
Why am I saying all this, wooaaooww gave me this to read, a real life experience of a twenty something girl travelling alone by train, and it was rude slap on the face differentiating between reality and fictional piece of writing.
Theres not much I can do except write about it. To say I felt sorry for the girl would be the biggest understatement this side of the Atlantic next to "Bush sucks". First she has to go through the worst physical torture not to mention being very scared as to what can happen to her next. As if this shit ain't enough for her, she then has to go through some emotional blackmailing. Truth is I felt really sorry for her when the perpertrator put her through some crass emotional blackmailing and make her feel guilty for doing what is right. Im glad she stuck to her guns and filed a criminal complaint against that guy. Reading that post made me notice a few things which I would have overlooked as indulgent, mischievous or harmless.
Heres something that I noticed last weekend after reading that post. I was waiting for my flight to Chicago along with many others crowding on both sides of the exit ramp coming off the gate. There was this beautiful girl on the other side wearing a pair of jeans and a white t-shirt showing off a little of her assets. Before we go any further, let me clarify that she wasnt dressed provocatively in any way. So, when the flight landed at the gate and the passengers started exiting, I couldnt believe my eyes that 9 out of every 10 males exiting the plane had two glances at her. One at her beautiful visage and the next, a fleeting (almost reflexive and involuntary) glance at her dress' plunging neckline. I was aghast, at the number and the different kinds of male entities that indulged in this. Married, unmarried, young, old, it didnt matter. To say that I didnt indulge in it myself would be perjury. But, after noticing this I knew that I would never be able to look the girl in her eye and say two kind words to her. There are girls who get turned on by being the focus of attention of every male stranger but this was different. Brazenly ogling has been so common, I guess by now its become a birth right for the male species these days. "Feminism is a misconception that women are people!!!" This was a bumper sticker in some car near my house; this is what its come to now.
To Lone Warrior, read the above post then you'll understand what I was trying to convey in the previous post!! No frivolous inspirations from Hindi or Tamil cinema :)
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