Sunday, July 09, 2006

75% of Bangalore Girls have been sexually harrassed !!!

I am not sure if I am reading this right. Recently a voluntary organisation called Samvada engaged in a campaign against sexual abuse, conducted a survey in 14 colleges where 75% of girls revealed that they have been victims of sexual harassment.

What makes it even worse is that out of this, 55 per cent had been attacked by family members including blood relatives like father, grandfather, brother and uncle. The other 20 per cent were people whom the girls knew well which included friends and acquaintances. Besides this, more than 80 per cent of city girls said that they had experienced sexual attacks between the ages of 0-14 years.

What is happening to our city and why is it turning western so fast ?? I dont mean that this is what is happening in the West.

Recenty when I visited a pub in church street, I found 90% of them were young girls smoking and drinking pitcher after pitcher of Beer. Most of them were wearing very revealing clothes and I am now wondering if this could be the reason or an invitation to the men (not the blood relatives, though) which made the rating high. I was kind of relieved that most of the girls were conversing in English or Hindi, but you never know, it could be our own kannadathees merging with the flow of western culture.... Phew I could not drink more than a pitcher and these brods are professional beer drinkers. An interesting information from this survey would be to know how many of them are native Bangaloreans and how many from other states, because Bangaloreans by nature are very conservative and shy.

Anyways a good subject to ponder about........

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