Dear Gabe, I take it that you were in full possession of your faculties, and also in full possession of all the facts, when you wrote that "all the men involved" need to be castrated? Very best regards, Victor Rangel-Ribeiro
On Wednesday, December 11, 2013 1:38 PM, Eugene Correia <[email protected]> wrote: Read Sobha De in The Week; http://week.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/theWeekContent.do?tabId=13&contentId=15662315&programId=10350717&categoryId=-1073908135 Here's a para: An equally disturbing charge has been levelled against a Goan writer, accused of stalking, harassing and, get this, flashing. His victims are six women who, for reasons best known to them, kept quiet for two years, but are now ready to charge this sick man. The indignation does not stop with the pervert. The women he repeatedly offended, are even more upset by the man’s influential friends who refused to acknowledge their complaints. Adding insult to injury is writer Jerry Pinto’s response to the charges against 'the flasher'. As one of the key organisers of the Goa Arts and Literary Festival, his was a dismissive one liner: “Strong women can never be molested.” While rejoinders to Pinto’s comments were all over Twitter, it was Mumbai Mirror that broke the story and unleashed an avalanche of anti-Jerry reactions. What happens next will be interesting to monitor. There is an attempt by a bunch of senior Goa-based writers to shield the culprit. This should surprise nobody. What is important is that women have decided ‘enough is enough’. Nobody is likely to be spared after this seminal moment that has united women across the country like never before. ---- Eugene
