Walk it, slut!

Society is guilty of many things, one such injustice is cropping up everywhere these days and is questioning the deep thoughts behind it. That is, are women "asking for it" when they dress in a revealing manner. Are they sending messages that they want to be disrespectfully treated??? HELL NO!!


Read on : Toronto 'slut walk' takes to city streets - Toronto - CBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13320785

As I read the news i was dumbfound thinking are men really such insecure people. Ofcourse, the people that this article refers to have an attribute of perverseness, but what about regular men?. As much as i was torn, between, what i know now and how as growing up a majority of girls  in india would have felt, i challenged myself of what i felt about this.

Surprisingly i had some sour thoughts about "Indian celebs" and thankfully not of regular people. Celebs do it for a reason, it's another story, so i left it at that. Now, coming to regular people, people we live with, our moms, sisters, our girl friends, our colleagues,  our kids even....do we subconsciously judge them for dressing non-conservatively or vice versa.

Stomping in London!

As an adolescent, i picked up vibes from women on how they dressed around me. People openly condemned or made harsh judgments of women otherwise. Subconsciously, a message is sent to the young minds that what we dress is what we think and how we expect others to think about us. So if you dress up conservatively, you give a msg to the people around that you should be treated conservatively and so forth. 

But as i grew up, i was strong enough to make up my mind, i met people from all types of backgrounds and realized we are more than how we clothe ourselves. Our thoughts are a separate entity form our way of dressing. Ofcourse, when we are in a professional environment, it calls for a certain way of dressing, yet, men or women should never stoop to think that women deserve anything less just because they dress in a way that shows more skin than the other "plain jane". No women should endure indecencies by public because of the way she chose to dress. 

India, indian people have long ways to go on this route. I'm so proud that New Delhi held its first slut walk. I'm happy there's open dialogue to let people think about it and hopefully this welcome change will come sooner than we anticipate. 

Meanwhile, to the sluts of the world, work it sister :)

- from 8/9/2011 at 11.54pm - posting it today