PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2012 ID-29202
.
We seek But my point is that patriarchal attitudes are not just on.
display when the policemen are caught displaying biases.
Not worship - but equality and dignity towards rape victims in a sting operation. These patriarchal.
attitudes are on display even when the police are in full public.
Not a pedestal - but a platform where view, `protecting' women. Take the instance of a recent Delhi.
you and I can struggle for a world free Police ad campaign against violence on women, that has.
of relations of power and domination a popular actor/director saying, "Make Delhi safer for women..
Are you man enough to join me? Don't sit back and allow.
Struggle for a campus free of sexual harassment and violence against women. Fight it. Report it.".
gender discrimination.
Another ad that the Delhi Police has been using for several.
Resist not only sexual harassment and violence, but also years (can be viewed at www.delhipolice.nic.in/home/.
patriarchal common sense that justifies such violence advertisement/Women%20Safety/.
Women%20Safetynew.htm) uses a photograph of a woman.
Demand sufficient funds, staff, infrastructure for GSCASH at a bus stop being harassed by some men, while a man.
and a woman look on passively. The ad copy says, "There.
Vote Support Elect Shweta Raj are no men in this picture...Or this would not happen...Surely.
you can't let a woman be teased in front of you? You are a.
As Student Representative to GSCASH real man. You know how humiliating and embarrassing it is.
for her. So protect her. And help her. Escort her away from.
If you've come to help me, you are wasting your time. the scene. ...Save her from shame and hurt...Protect women.
But if you've come because your liberation is bound up from eve teasers.".
with mine, then let us work together. - Lilla Watson.
There is no contradiction between the ideology of.
How Should We Struggle Against Sexual patriarchal protection in the Delhi Police's ads, and the.
Harassment? What Should `Gender- patriarchal stereotypes and biases displayed by its.
policemen in Tehelka's sting. These ads refuse to recognize.
Sensitisation' Mean? How to Revitalise that the very machismo and masculine `protectiveness' they.
GSCASH? A Perspective are invoking against violence on women, is in many instances.
responsible for the violence that women face! As the Hindi.
The GSCASH in JNU, and elected student representation in proverb has it, `jis laung se bhoot bhaga rahe the, bhoot.
GSCASH, came into being as a result of sustained struggles usi laung mein tha' (the sense of which can be roughly.
by students and teachers against sexual harassment. Even rendered as: `the disease lurks in the very pill that's.
before Supreme Court's historic Vishakha Judgement (1997), prescribed as a panacea'). After all, aren't the men who.
JNU campus started debating the need for an autonomous seek to control their sisters' or daughters' friendships,.
body, outside the ambit of the Proctorial Board, at campus relationships and mobility; who ask their wives to avoid.
level to deal with cases of sexual harassment. So when the wearing jeans; who commit `honour' crimes, `real men,' acting.
Supreme court made it mandatory to create a body against in a socially-sanctioned way, as guardians and protectors.
sexual harassment at every workplace (the Vishakha of women? If a woman is `indecently' dressed, or if she was.
Judgement), the ground was already mature in the campus out late at night or at a pub/nightclub, and therefore failing to.
through debates and discussions from early on and JNU display the `shame' that is expected of her, doesn't she fall.
became one of the first institutions to create its own outside the protective circle of masculine guardianship? Isn't.
GSCASH. she, in other words, less than a `real woman,' according to.
patriarchal thinking, and therefore, deserving of rape? Isn't it.
As we approach GSCASH elections in JNU, `gender- possible, according to the Delhi Police's own cops, that.
sensitisation' remains one of the key tasks of the GSCASH. `real men' mistook her for a `slut', a woman without chastity.
What do we mean by `gender-sensitisation'? In my view, and shame, who neither needs nor deserves masculine.
`gender-sensitisation' cannot just mean a concern for protectiveness?.
`protecting' women from sexual harassment. We need to.
actively ask uncomfortable questions, and disturb the So, `gender-sensitisation' must mean that in our.
attitudes to gender and sexual violence that we inherit from classrooms, in our hostels, in our public celebrations and.
society and are an `automatic' part of the dominant gatherings (such as hostel nights and fresher/farewell.
`commonsense'. parties), we go beyond talk of women needing `safety' and.
`protection.' Rather, let us assert that `safety' from sexual.
Not Patriarchal `Protection' - But Equal Access harassment ought to mean that women have an equal right.
to Public Spaces with men to access public spaces and workplaces without.
fear, irrespective of what time it is, what they are wearing,.
Just recently, a sting operation by Tehelka has and whether or not they are accompanied by male.
confirmed the ugly truth: police officers in the NCR region companions, and who those male companions are. In other.
believe most women `ask for rape'; they believe that women words, the concern ought to be to that of gender equality,.
who wear modern clothes, have male friends, drink alcohol, rather than the patriarchal ideology of masculine guardianship.
are divorced, etc are all `provoking' men to rape them. The and `protection' of women..
sting also showed how these cops have a deeply ingrained.
bias against women from `Darjeeling, Nepal, North East', When we resist sexual harassment, let's be clear -.
saying that these women are all prostitutes who falsely.
complain of rape. Of course, it isn't only beat cops who P.T.O..
think like this: top cops like KPS Gill, Chief ministers like.
Sheila Dixit and Mamata Banerjee, have all said similar.
things..
..
PaRCha - JNU - AISA material - 2012 ID-29202
.
We seek But my point is that patriarchal attitudes are not just on.
display when the policemen are caught displaying biases.
Not worship - but equality and dignity towards rape victims in a sting operation. These patriarchal.
attitudes are on display even when the police are in full public.
Not a pedestal - but a platform where view, `protecting' women. Take the instance of a recent Delhi.
you and I can struggle for a world free Police ad campaign against violence on women, that has.
of relations of power and domination a popular actor/director saying, "Make Delhi safer for women..
Are you man enough to join me? Don't sit back and allow.
Struggle for a campus free of sexual harassment and violence against women. Fight it. Report it.".
gender discrimination.
Another ad that the Delhi Police has been using for several.
Resist not only sexual harassment and violence, but also years (can be viewed at www.delhipolice.nic.in/home/.
patriarchal common sense that justifies such violence advertisement/Women%20Safety/.
Women%20Safetynew.htm) uses a photograph of a woman.
Demand sufficient funds, staff, infrastructure for GSCASH at a bus stop being harassed by some men, while a man.
and a woman look on passively. The ad copy says, "There.
Vote Support Elect Shweta Raj are no men in this picture...Or this would not happen...Surely.
you can't let a woman be teased in front of you? You are a.
As Student Representative to GSCASH real man. You know how humiliating and embarrassing it is.
for her. So protect her. And help her. Escort her away from.
If you've come to help me, you are wasting your time. the scene. ...Save her from shame and hurt...Protect women.
But if you've come because your liberation is bound up from eve teasers.".
with mine, then let us work together. - Lilla Watson.
There is no contradiction between the ideology of.
How Should We Struggle Against Sexual patriarchal protection in the Delhi Police's ads, and the.
Harassment? What Should `Gender- patriarchal stereotypes and biases displayed by its.
policemen in Tehelka's sting. These ads refuse to recognize.
Sensitisation' Mean? How to Revitalise that the very machismo and masculine `protectiveness' they.
GSCASH? A Perspective are invoking against violence on women, is in many instances.
responsible for the violence that women face! As the Hindi.
The GSCASH in JNU, and elected student representation in proverb has it, `jis laung se bhoot bhaga rahe the, bhoot.
GSCASH, came into being as a result of sustained struggles usi laung mein tha' (the sense of which can be roughly.
by students and teachers against sexual harassment. Even rendered as: `the disease lurks in the very pill that's.
before Supreme Court's historic Vishakha Judgement (1997), prescribed as a panacea'). After all, aren't the men who.
JNU campus started debating the need for an autonomous seek to control their sisters' or daughters' friendships,.
body, outside the ambit of the Proctorial Board, at campus relationships and mobility; who ask their wives to avoid.
level to deal with cases of sexual harassment. So when the wearing jeans; who commit `honour' crimes, `real men,' acting.
Supreme court made it mandatory to create a body against in a socially-sanctioned way, as guardians and protectors.
sexual harassment at every workplace (the Vishakha of women? If a woman is `indecently' dressed, or if she was.
Judgement), the ground was already mature in the campus out late at night or at a pub/nightclub, and therefore failing to.
through debates and discussions from early on and JNU display the `shame' that is expected of her, doesn't she fall.
became one of the first institutions to create its own outside the protective circle of masculine guardianship? Isn't.
GSCASH. she, in other words, less than a `real woman,' according to.
patriarchal thinking, and therefore, deserving of rape? Isn't it.
As we approach GSCASH elections in JNU, `gender- possible, according to the Delhi Police's own cops, that.
sensitisation' remains one of the key tasks of the GSCASH. `real men' mistook her for a `slut', a woman without chastity.
What do we mean by `gender-sensitisation'? In my view, and shame, who neither needs nor deserves masculine.
`gender-sensitisation' cannot just mean a concern for protectiveness?.
`protecting' women from sexual harassment. We need to.
actively ask uncomfortable questions, and disturb the So, `gender-sensitisation' must mean that in our.
attitudes to gender and sexual violence that we inherit from classrooms, in our hostels, in our public celebrations and.
society and are an `automatic' part of the dominant gatherings (such as hostel nights and fresher/farewell.
`commonsense'. parties), we go beyond talk of women needing `safety' and.
`protection.' Rather, let us assert that `safety' from sexual.
Not Patriarchal `Protection' - But Equal Access harassment ought to mean that women have an equal right.
to Public Spaces with men to access public spaces and workplaces without.
fear, irrespective of what time it is, what they are wearing,.
Just recently, a sting operation by Tehelka has and whether or not they are accompanied by male.
confirmed the ugly truth: police officers in the NCR region companions, and who those male companions are. In other.
believe most women `ask for rape'; they believe that women words, the concern ought to be to that of gender equality,.
who wear modern clothes, have male friends, drink alcohol, rather than the patriarchal ideology of masculine guardianship.
are divorced, etc are all `provoking' men to rape them. The and `protection' of women..
sting also showed how these cops have a deeply ingrained.
bias against women from `Darjeeling, Nepal, North East', When we resist sexual harassment, let's be clear -.
saying that these women are all prostitutes who falsely.
complain of rape. Of course, it isn't only beat cops who P.T.O..
think like this: top cops like KPS Gill, Chief ministers like.
Sheila Dixit and Mamata Banerjee, have all said similar.
things..
..