On Tuesday 03 Jan 2012 11:27:18 am . wrote: > Here’s a new year’s resolution I’d > like to see for 2012: Let government and law enforcement officials > come out and say loud and clear, in each of our many languages, that > the victims of sexual harassment and assault will not be blamed, no > matter what clothes they were wearing or what time of day they were > driving their vehicles. It is the police’s duty to protect law-abiding > people from criminals, full stop. Officers who try to duck this > responsibility by blaming short skirts and unladylike behaviour must > be summarily removed from their positions, if India is ever to become > a superpower.
several quibbles. 1. India is not going to become a superpower if women start wearing more revealing dresses, so that was pointless rhetoric 2. That Andhra police officer loudly proclaimed "I am an idiot". Asking a person who loudly proclaims "I am an idiot" to stop being an idiot is what this article is about. 3. Even if all women were to stop dressing "provocatively" how would the police deal with a woman - say a hoooker who deliberately dresses provocatively to attract customers? Rape her? Or look away and blame her provcative dress if she were to get raped? This question is too difficult to answer for Idiots. 4. If Indians were actually honest with themselves and did a proper survey of what is happening in ths country you will find that a significant percentage of menfolk think that a woman should be covered up and at home serving her husband. She should wear jasmine in her hair and never drink. And I heard this from a self-proclaimed Hindutva group. There is an "elite" India that is out of touch with the majority. The article is from that elite for the elite. The probem is not that the police officer is a self advertised idiot. The whole goddam country thinks this way. Blaming the idiot police officer is ignoring the elephant in the room. We are pretending that India is something that it isn't and hoping that it will become something that it won't. The police will never enforce what they don't believe. shiv
