This is my response to blank noise.
This is for those who don’t know what it is (who I think should know)
Blank noise project:
Blank- that which is not allowed meaning, form or articulation. Noise- that which heightens , builds itself. Eve Teasing as the name suggests, is considered a joke, a prank. Eve Teasing is street sexual harassment. The project seeks to recognize eve teasing as a sexual crime and establish the issue as something that may be normal, but is unacceptable.
I am happy that something is being done at last.
But my mirth stops there.
There my ire begins.
They have taken long enough to do something.
…but the worry is it really a solution if in the process the rights of a woman are curbed. Is the purpose really achieved? Can she walk on the streets as herself?
Why should there be a question about women having to change their clothes, changing the way they dress and clothe themselves, the way they portray themselves to be to others, to the world? Why should they? Why the hell should we?
They say clothes define a man (notice it says man) and if that’s the case then how she dresses is her own right nobody has the right to tell her this is how a woman should dress. This is what is acceptable. This is what is right for her to wear, for they have no right to tell what she should wear…no bloody right.
Why on earth should they put up the clothes they wore when they were molested so that those kinds of clothes can be marked and barred. They are clothes aren’t they? they have been liked and chosen haven’t they? That woman who wore them bought them because she liked and wanted to wear them didn’t she?
Then isn’t it reason enough that those kind of clothes shouldn’t be marked.
Isn’t it reason enough that that man who finds its luring, provocative should look away if he finds himself attracted to her beauty and her body.
[ Of course she is beautiful, she is a woman and you when you find yourself staring (or if you don’t ) when you see her uncomfortable shouldn’t you look away? ].
Isn’t it reason enough that those clothes are accepted as they are because she likes to wear them, because we are a democracy, because we have to let others be as they are, because we don’t have a right to force our views on others, because we have to appreciate her individuality, because she above all is a person.
So when she walks on the roads which belongs to her as much as it belongs to those who stand and stare, those group of guys around the corner or in front of the café leaning on their bikes whistle at her, that man who walks on the pavement brushes past her
as though it’s the most natural thing in the wide world, that spectacled tight lipped man in the stiff collar thinks she should wear clothes which are more in accordance with our culture like a salwar with a dupatta.
Who are you to judge her.
Why do you judge and rate her.
How would you feel if you were stared at and rated…
What if she were asked to choose what you wear, if she were to decide what you can wear, if she for eg. said that those baggy jeans and half torn rugged looking t-shirts make you look like you are asking for it so you should wear a full hand checked shirt and ironed cotton pants. Would they agree? Would you agree?
So should she?
Then is it right that you tell her?
Don’t give a stupid excuse that its hugging her luscious curves. For god’s sake she is a woman , women have curves. And if you are lured by lust you should look away shouldn’t you?... oh yes I forget don’t i. men don’t have to look away ,its her who is feeling uncomfortable so she should look away right? She should cast her eyes elsewhere…she looks away oh oops she finds another guy staring.... May be should just look down at…. What?
What is there for her to see? The pavement? The blocks on it? The squares which makes it up? The cement? The dirt? The trash? The spit?...
There is nothing for her to look at.
It is you who should look away for women should be able to walk on the streets with their head held high. Not eyes downcast cowering in fright like what it used to be in the olden days.
What can she do that can provoke you…lets see..mmm….yes one she can wear those clothes you say which show more than cover..which we just discussed above.... or she can ….?.....ah yes she can tell you on your face to turn your head to another direction in her own words depending in intensity of how much you managed to get on her nerves….this we neednt bother discussing…its too obvious that you had it coming. If you don’t think so please go see a doctor immediately. Its very rare that a woman yells a at a man if he doesn’t deserve it. (even if you say it might not be his fault those cases are rare).

Then the question which remains is ‘why do these accidents occur?’ .
They occur because man cant control his desires and lust.
They occur because he doesn’t make an effort to control them.
(if you say he does make an effort then…what kind of effort is it when it doesn’t even have a tiny bit of effect in it?).
What is the solution?
Simple really… if you hurt me.i will in return hurt you. I will physically injure you.
I wont forgive you for your deeds for I aint Christ or mother teresa.
I will use my pepper spray on you.
I will claw at you and fight you. And if I by chance I am able to lay my hands on a weapon like a knife I will use it on you. And I wont be wrong in doing so for I will be defending on attacking.
Do you see anything wrong?