Left in the Lurch

After the downright brilliant comments made by our beloved Mister Minister C C Patil, the next round of statements are even more surprising. This time, it’s a woman’s voice speaking for Mr. Patil’s cause. And this is no ordinary woman, no; we’re referring to K K Seetamma, head of the committee, ironically, set up to fight sexual harassment down at the Karnataka University. The ever-so-delightful higher-ups down at KU continuously seem to be out-doing each other. According to Seetamma Ji, the only solution to women facing sexual harassment is that they wear saris.

No, you read it right; Just saris, all the time. Anything else and they’re inviting sexual harassment.

Did I mention that in order to invoke respect, they need to ensure their arms are covered in long-sleeved blouses as well? Why stop there, we say? I’m going to go out on a limb and say maybe we should just make it mandatory for women to walk looking down, never make eye contact with anyone; just in case they look at a guy and he gets aroused and decides to molest her. Also, it should be compulsory for them to carry another pair of clothes with them at all times, just in case a man decides to 'blow off some steam'. And if after all this, if women are still getting sexually assaulted, let’s just lock them up. We’ll figure out what we’re locking them up for later.

This is getting more and more ridiculous every day. What are we, animals? Do we have any sense of responsibility towards acting like educated human beings, and not signing it off calling it “an act of instinct”? And here I thought Kapil Sibal was being preposterous when he wanted to censor the internet, here we seem to have a group of people who are out to censor Women.