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A mother talks to her son about her own experiences of sexual harassment on streets. She asks her son to see women and girls as his equal and respect their bodily autonomy.
#ShareYourStory is an initiative by Breakthrough to bring the conversation around sexual harassment into families; to get women talking about the harassment they have experienced with their family members, especially sons (or other boys and young men.)
Have you ever spoken to your son about your difficult experiences of being harassed? It isn’t easy to begin conversation about an everyday experience that women push away to continue their lives. But these conversations must be had.
In this video, Sangeeta Goel talks to her son about her own experiences of sexual harassment on streets. She describes with great pain what happened and how she felt in those moments when a stranger invaded her friend’s body. Most women experience sexual harassment on the streets and maybe even within their homes from an early age. But they are accustomed to keep silent about it or worse ignore it. There is a fear that women feel when they are alone on the roads late at night or even in groups.
She speaks about the pain her friend felt in those moments. She asks her son to see women and girls as his equal and respect their bodily autonomy.The video ends poignantly with a message of hope about allowing women to live and sleep in peace.
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Shows like Indian Matchmaking only further the argument that women must adhere to social norms without being allowed to follow their hearts.
When Netflix announced that Indian Matchmaking (2020-present) would be renewed for a second season, many of us hoped for the makers of the show to take all the criticism they faced seriously. That is definitely not the case because the show still continues to celebrate regressive patriarchal values.
Here are a few of the gendered notions that the show propagates.
A mediocre man can give himself a 9.5/10 and call himself ‘the world’s most eligible bachelor’, but an independent and successful woman must be happy with receiving just 60-70% of what she feels she deserves.
As long as teachers are competent in their job, and adhere to the workplace code of conduct, how does it matter what they do in their personal lives?
A 30 year old Associate Professor at a well-known University, according to an FIR filed by her, was forced to resign because the father of one of her students complained that he found his son looking at photographs of her, which according to him were “objectionable” and “bordering on nudity”.
There are two aspects to this case, which are equally disturbing, and which together make me question where we are heading as a society.
When the father of an 18 year old finds his son looking at photographs of a lady in a swimsuit, he can do many things. What this parent allegedly did was to dash off a letter to the University which states: