Hi Smriti, I am really glad that you have voiced the opinion and it is the need of the hour. At least now let's hope that the forum will become a gender sensitive platform for us to raise our issues and patriarchal authoritarianism will not become a barrier in that.
Vetri. ----- Original Message ----- From: "smriti singh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 5:17 AM Subject: [AI] attention please >I totally agree with the article tara sir send. > meethodology of the article is very cleaar we should > not always think that condition in our country is > great. because girls do not know about sexuality. in > delhi, according to survey, 95 % visually challenged > girls are unaware about usage of contraceptic or > sexuality and the method of sexual exploitation. I > have data of three states. with all the fascilities if > Delhi Visually Challenged girls are in this condition, > then you can imagine about other states. I don't > believe that this issue should not be brought on > accessindia, because, first, in a way, this is also > concerned with accessibility rights. When you are > aware about some situation, then only you can protect > yourself and your friends from this kind of situation. > Secondly, it is concerned with law and government > policy, which accessindia allows to discuss. I would > like to ask, can only the evolution of technology give > us all the accessibility rights? should we be > satisfied only with career discussions? Does not this > kind of issue also come under government policy? > It is very unfortunate that while discussing about > this kind of issue, people have very insensitive > atitude and somebody has called it love crime. For one > minute, I agree with this respected person. But, if > somebody is in love and that person is physically and > emotionally exploited in an institution, is > institution not responsible for it? Or is it also love > crime? Secondly, in institutions for visually > challenged girls, girls and boys are segregated very > carefully. So there is less chance of falling in love. > Those who have suggested about not bringing up this > kind of issue in media, they should remember that, > with possitivity, it is necessary to accept negativity > also. Besides, I would like to tell that we cannot > cover up this kind of issue in the fear that this will > be problem for visually challenged girls, because > crime of such institution will never come inlight if > media is not involved. > I totally agree that this could be problem for > visually challenged girls in education, marriage and > so on. But there is possitive aspect of it also. Girls > will be told about sexuality and they will then be > able to empower themselves like sighted girls to face > the world. > The real problem is that visually challenged girls > generally do not think that they could be sexually > harassed, because many of them, as I have already > said, do not know about sexuality, and here lies the > key difference between the harassment of sighted girls > and that of the visually challenged girls. > > Smriti Singh > Programme: M. Phil (English Literature) > Room # 03 > Sabarmati Hostel > Jawaharlal Nehru University > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Want to start your own business? > Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. > http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
