First posted for the Blank Noise Blogathon
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Blogathon 2006 : Author Anindita
This was written for the Blank Noise Blog-a-thon on Street Harrassment. I couldn't think of a clever title so this will have to do for the moment. This is to all the men out there who dehumanise me, and themselves, regularly and don't even realise what they're destroying.
I could meet your eyes
I could look at you
I could imagine,
But it's hard because
It's hard because
It's hard because
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Well,i have noticed somethin is dat we all r sharing our incidents,which i good coz u need to speak n vent ur frustrations,but cant someone give proper advices as to how n what measures can b taken in such situations.The more am reading the more rebellious am getting.So,cant v do somethin bout this!!!
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Good luck getting people behind this one. Though you make some VERY fascinating points, youre going to have to do more than bring up a few things that may be different than what weve already heard. What are trying to say here? What do you want us to think? It seems like you cant really get behind a unique thought. Anyway, thats just my opinion.
If looking a breast is lack of respect for women, then showing the breast is a lack of respect for men, reduced to cold mirror on which test the effect of beauty or dressing!
If you deny this, you are against the logic, not only against the ethic.
You feel scared for my looking and desiring? So I am scared by your showing and provoking (consciously or not) desire!
Certain behaviors arouse discomfort? What arouses discomfort is subjective.
I feel uncomfortable even when she appears in my field of vision before asking me (without I asking her) through her body, because she evokes a desire that can not be (at least in that situation) satisfied ando so creates frustration.
And that remains my feeling both if by nature will continue to watch (because the situation makes me feel pure nothing in front of her that everything is as it is desired by all) or if, forcing me against the nature, look the other way (however, since the desire has already been aroused and even the mere awareness of being close to what you can not get leaves in the state of frustration).
And if the woman, for caprice, faschion, vanity, sentimental-duty, free showing of erotic pre-eminence over man or sadistic pleasure, exploits the situation to cause me physical and psycological pain provoking desire only for enjoying its denial, to intentionally provoke emotional distress, to ridicule the desire, to inflict deep frustration, humiliation public or private, physical and mental ungratified till the obsession, to make myself ridiculous in front of myself or others people that try any approach, to cause physical or psychological pain attracting and repealling, to treat me like "one of the other", a minor nuisance, after having chosen me among so many, just to make me suffer hell after the hope of paradise, to attract me artfully (or even make me come to her) only to can treat me as "harrassment-maker", if in fact use the weapon of sentimental-erotic rage on who is psychologically at a disadvantage in the first moments of meeting (occasional and short as well as sentimental and long) with the opposite sex, then the discomfort rise from sexual to existential.
And if you can define "male harrassment" what cause the minimum and the alleged damage at your female subjective shere, I HAVE THE SAME RIGHT to define "female harrassment" what hurt my different but not negligible male subjectivity.
It is just frustrating to be provoked in a desire who rarely can be satisfied,
it is just mentally hard to have the "obligation" to make the first move without knowing if the other part wil like it or not,
it is just psycologically difficult to be in the situation of an exam (make the best to be accepted) in front of who is just appreciated for her beuty and can always choose if enjoying WITH us or OVER us.
You add the certainty to be depreciated a priori for our simple desire of nature (natural as a spring, as the reflection of the moon over the nigth see, as the bird's song)!
You add the risk of be considered a pervert or be kicked as a violent only for looking and talking you don't like!
You do not deserve to be loved and respected.
You deserve to be treated as the animal you are (to appear beautiful and desirable is your female istinct not less "animal" than my male istinct of looking and desiring the beauty), since you consider me an animal only for my natural desires!
You deserve to be violated since you consider a "violence" the pacific expression of the same desire which you consider a "female right" to provoke!
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