Dave Chakrabarti Footnotes in Technivism

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A friend emailed me today with a link to the Blank Noise Project, a blogging project developed to highlight the concept of "eve teasing" in India.

Eve teasing is the term given to the sexual harassment every Indian woman faces in the streets, every single day, without exception. In my experience, it's more prevalent in major cities than it is in more rural areas, though crimes against women continue to be perpetrated across the country.

I found the Blank Noise Project an extremely practical and interesting approach to a problem that has no easy solutions. Men in India are taught by older male role models, scenes from movies, and by their peers that this kind of harassment is an acceptable form of social behavior. In movies, particularly, it's extremely common for a man with his troupe of merry, shady men to burst into song at the object of his affections, and by the end of the movie (often by the end of the song) they've fallen in love. The problem lies in the social system that has only recently begun to accept a woman's equality in even nominal terms...and much work remains before women are truly seen and treated as equals in the country.

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