UP Community Panchayat bans jeans and mobiles for girls - Polidicks

[quote]A community panchayat in Uttar Pradesh has banned girls from wearing jeans and keeping mobile phones claiming that they were having a “bad” effect on them and were responsible for eve-teasing incidents. The panchayat of Gujjar community was held at Jadwad village on Friday. It passed the diktat banning wearing of jeans and use of mobile phones by unmarried girl. The panchayat also claimed that eve-teasing incidents had increased due to “objectionable” clothes worn by girls. It also asked the community people not to have disc jockey during wedding functions.[/quote] sauce: [url]http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/uttar-pradesh-community-panchayat-bans-jeans-mobile-phones-for-girls/article6298539.ece?homepage=true[/url] More staunch 'defenders' of morality and culture, just what we needed :downs:

Nice job India showing how progressive you are. It's stuff like this that makes me think quite a few countries should still be British colonies.

[QUOTE=download;45637068]Nice job India showing how progressive you are. It's stuff like this that makes me think quite a few countries should still be British colonies.[/QUOTE] They like to find scapegoats and straw men to maintain their arguments when in reality they quietly support anything that allows outmoded practices and injustice to take place.

what is eve-teasing?

[QUOTE=Lachz0r;45637233]what is eve-teasing?[/QUOTE] sexual harassment.

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[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;45637235]sexual harassment.[/QUOTE] Sounds like they call it that to imply the woman was asking for it by being a tease.

[QUOTE=download;45637835]Sounds like they call it that to imply the woman was asking for it by being a tease.[/QUOTE] no, no, it's not how that works, it's just how they refer to sexual harassment.

[QUOTE=Lachz0r;45637233]what is eve-teasing?[/QUOTE] eye-teasing*?

commence the khakis and mobile laptops

[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;45637078]They like to find scapegoats and straw men to maintain their arguments when in reality they quietly support anything that allows outmoded practices and injustice to take place.[/QUOTE] While their children can get away with rape and murder because they belonged to a higher caste, you mean. Sooner or later being a Yadav in UP is going to be an automatic death sentence going by their treatment of Dalits so far.

Eve-Teasing. Basically a man sexually harasses a woman, but she was wearing jeans so it's her fault. Eve because of the Biblical Eve. But it will continue on anyways regardless of the clothing.

[QUOTE=ToumaniSquirrel;45639388]Eve because of the Biblical Eve.[/QUOTE] what I've also had to deal with my fair share of people like this and its one of the most depressing things ever. Annoying to due to the sole justification being that 'its there'

[QUOTE=mn_chaos;45639848]what I've also had to deal with my fair share of people like this and its one of the most depressing things ever. Annoying to due to the sole justification being that 'its there'[/QUOTE] In principle it works the same as cat calling, except that if handled badly it can quickly escalate out of control. In Hyderabad while I was there, one such "eveteaser" hounded a girl at a bus stop for weeks and when she refused his unwanted advances he threw acid on her face. That's the level of fucked up sexual frustration has gotten to for a majority of Indian men Combined with old school misogyny practised by the old fruitbats in our government (and exacerbated by the conservative government in power), thing won't change unless some serious punishment is dealt. Which, of course, won't happen because our judicial system works at a glacial pace and our legislative arm either continues to amend or uphold laws from the British Raj, or make laws that are so hopelessly lopsided and prone to abuse, they are immediately rendered pointless.

I understand the misogynistic logic behind the clothing thing, but the phones is a bit odd Men can still own phones right

[QUOTE=NiandraLades;45640131]I understand the misogynistic logic behind the clothing thing, but the phones is a bit odd Men can still own phones right[/QUOTE] The reasoning behind that is wanting to keep the women isolated and not fraternising with boys or men at all. Their warped view of the world is that women are easily seduced by men into immoral acts (what with being delicate lambs that must have their virtue protected at all costs) so they see the mobile phone as a way for women to still indulge in immoral activity (talking to men who are not family). Since its the one they can't control, banning is the only way for them to feel assured, sitting on their moral police high horses. In tome, as computers make big inroads into rural areas, they'll go after Facebook next. As a side note, it should be noted that Gujjars have something of a notoriety in the North for taking advantage of the governments scheduled caste and scheduled tribe welfare schemes and quotas, while mostly being corrupt as fuck.

[QUOTE=snookypookums;45640148]The reasoning behind that is wanting to keep the women isolated and not fraternising with boys or men at all. Their warped view of the world is that women are easily seduced by men into immoral acts (what with being delicate lambs that must have their virtue protected at all costs) so they see the mobile phone as a way for women to still indulge in immoral activity (talking to men who are not family).[/QUOTE] The guy who invented the postal stamp felt very similarly about how it enabled women to communicate with whomever they wanted, without going through their father. Some shit's universal.