A major movement to uplift Indian women...

What is good for the west, must be good for India too…, Right ?

There is a huge movement to uplift women is sweeping the country, city after city page3 personalities are shouting, lot of “feminists” are coming out of the woodwork. If you thought that a huge movement is underway, to educate women, provide them self employment opportunities, educate them about their rights, safeguard natural birth-ratio you couldn’t be more wrong, my friend.

The so called “huge movement” to uplift women, underway – sweeping the whole nation “If you believe the Anglo media” is …. Drum roll please…. Catch your breath …. Sit down --- is the SLUT WALK !!! Yes, you heard me right it is the slutwalk.

This movement is supposed to protest remarks the chief constable of Toronto, who cautioned in some form asking women not to dress like sluts in public. So immediately, it started in Toronto and slowly spread to the rest of the west. But the, we have lot of Parsi Aunties in Delhi and several “self made” (== My dad’s fame and Money) personalities like Koel Purie, for whom this was “too good” an opportunity to pass… So the desi version of the “slutwalk” was born. It started in Bhopal as “Besharmi Morcha” with about 50 folks dressed in jeans and t-shirt !

Hmm… I was under the mistaken impression that slut walk in some sense about the right of women to protest that they shouldn’t be victims of violence and how they have an inalienable right to be in “slutty” attire!

The icing on the cake on this comedy show was the quote from the organiser, I have cut and pasted the newspaper report on this for your funny bone as well.

“Unlike Toronto, we advised women participants not to dress provocatively as it was against our culture,” said Radhika Shingweker, a law student who organised Bhopal’s Slut Walk.

Isn’t this the very anti-thesis of this movement? When we as parents caution our children to watch how they dress/behave in public, we were doing something wrong and somehow the right to a slutty attire was an inalienable right – was supposed to be the very basis of this “slut Walk”.

What am I missing ? Educate me please….. Only thing I see here is a primal urge on the part of certain delhi-ites to decide “What is good for the west, must be good for India too ?”