Comments on: Blank Noise Blogathon

By: Sexual Harassment

Sexual Harassment — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:23:48 +0000

The Supreme Court guidelines and the The Sexual Harassment of Women at the Workplace (Prevention and Redressal) Bill, 2004 (later revised in 2006) have made it explicit that it is mandatory on the part of an employer to ensure an environment free from the threat of any kind of sexual harassment and exploitation.

The Supreme Court has mandated every organisation to have a committee to address incidents of sexual harassment in the workplace. However, a Committee alone will not solve the issue in its entirety, as its presence does not address the issue from the roots. Organisations need to think of a series of steps to address this phenomenon in its varied dimensions. In this context, having a Policy Against Sexual Harassment will be useful in developing a strategy to deal with sexual harassment in the workplace.

We can have more policy details of sexual harassment in Pria’s NGO website. Most of the peoples are not aware about sexual harassment and its very important to make them aware this will help us to decrease occurring sexual harassment in our country. By the help of Pria’s (NGO) website we can came to know a lots of things base on sexual harassment. It’s my personal experience that this website helps girls a lot and we can share our views and quarries with others in its forum.

By: Aravind

Aravind — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:44:10 +0000

Just to mention since I saw some one mentioning benazir bhutto. I saw this photo on flickr with benazir in a very short skirt. I would say if i saw her like that in real life then i would also ogle at het.

By: binny

binny — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:49:35 +0000

female harrasment on streets is common, in homes is even more common. sexual harrasment takes many forms and has many degrees of severity. it is demeaning and can leave scars on the psyche.
i have always maintained that women cannot ask for freedom, liberty, or growth, without carrying the other half of the world along. Lopsided change is no change at all, it merely increases disparity. Yes, men need to move along with the women for any change to take palace.
men have a tendecy to say getting raped? lie back and enjoy it!!!
Wonder how they would feel if the roles were reversed.?
writing will go some way in changing attitudes. Hopefuly…

By: yourfan2

yourfan2 — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:46:56 +0000

On an isolated note GB, Id like to ask you a question, what if some girl sues RTDM if she finds the stare of you in your latest pic on this blog as lecherous? )))

You never know, you know.

By: greatbong

greatbong — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 04:34:04 +0000

@yourfan2: Thank you

@All: Rather a spirited discussion here….varry interesstingggg

By: yourfan2

yourfan2 — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 04:04:32 +0000

My Dear GB,

First of all many congrats. This is the best post of the Blank Noise Project. No overtures, no drama, just cutting the crap and getting to the point.

You said to Debashis:

“Aamazingly brave of you to do thatâ€“but people like you are rare. I wonder how many bloggers who are writing everywhere â€œmen should take a stanceâ€ are actually going to take it when push comes to shove. Men like you are rare.”

I wanted to say something to Deabshis but now I wont as you have already said what I wanted to say.

Again I quote:
“I wonder how many bloggers who are writing everywhere â€œmen should take a stanceâ€ are actually going to take it when push comes to shove.”

Magnificent. Simply magnificent. Which is why i saw and dismissed rather quickly the links provided by Reena. Actually you have read a very pertinent point. Topics like this can stir up a lot of emotions , Bollywood style. But you are a master of Bollywood, you see through the emotion and see the harsh cold logic.

You know I had a PT teacher in school who used to rub the asses to the girls but used to give tall speeches on how women were like God. If only writing a post that pleases feminists could wash away the sins that one perpetrates!

Again, you rose in my esteem with you succint and no-nonsense post. Ill tell you what if I had to write a post on the topic, I would have written just the same words that you have. Thou art great!!

By: Debasish

Debasish — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 23:58:32 +0000

Now I will wait for somebody to comment on the subsequent occurrences of the following two sentences:
“Unless what? Unless I am gay?
Actually, I canâ€™t tell.”

By: Debasish

Debasish — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 23:54:49 +0000

Anon,
LOL! I knew somebody will latch on to that!!! Unless what? Unless I am gay?
Actually, I can’t tell. It is a standing joke between me and a friend of mine who has this theory. He claims he can detect gay people just by looking at them and how they behave. I am yet to figure it out myself.
Anyways, without throwing that in I couldn’t have created the situation. If you have a problem with that, let’s imagine that before starting to stare at Pranav, they just look at each other and say “We are gay, okay?” which Pranav overhears and then they turn towards Pranav and start staring. Happy? …. I don’t know! Go do some imagining yourself. Jeez!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 23:07:03 +0000

@Debasish: How in God’s Good Earth can you say if somebody is “obviously gay” ? Unless……

By: Debasish

Debasish — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:49:58 +0000

Heh, heh! Exchanges over a serious matter like sexual harrassment and whether a blogathon is going to have any effect on it gradually turned into something sorta funny! I can’t believe you guys are actually arguing over whether ogling/staring is okay. Is somebody here trying to tell me that all this time when parents have been trying ot teach their kids not to stare at strangers because it is rude, they were all actually teaching unnecessary lessons??… and hell! That doesn’t even involve any sexual innuendo!! I will be damned! And if glance overs boost female ego then doggoneit!!! I have added a hoard of egotistic women in this world!! Father, I have sinned!!!
Hey Pranav! Imagine you are late from work… verrrry late. You walk up to the metro station to catch a train home. The next train is 15 min later. There is nobody at the platform, except four obviously gay men standing nearby looking at you. Just looking! And looking…

P.S. I am so “wela” today! I lost count of how many comments I wrote to various posts today. Somebody, please give me some work to do!!!