Tuesday, July 26, 2005

and he's back!!!

Thursday, July 21, 2005

http://blanknoiseproject.blogspot.com/
http://indianwriting.blogspot.com/2005/07/its-not-bloody-okay.html
http://hemanginigupta.blogspot.com/2005/06/train-to-chennai.html

i wish there were blogs when i was younger, a school girl traveling by perenially crowded buses to school everyday. oh the nerve of the guys who'd try to rub themselves against my back! the naivette of the first few years where i didn't have a clue that i was being molested and harassed. the bewilderment when i started recognizing the rubbing, the touching, the groping was all intentional. and then the anger. the white hot anger. that made me have to hold men by their collars and hit them. that unrelenting, sickening feeling of resentment rising up my throat like bile...resentment towards the perceived vulnerability of women. that they could be taken for granted so easily. that men could get away with this so often, so easily. and that it alwasy ended up being your fault - for dressing like this, for walking like that, for laughing so loudly and freely.

kudos to these women. may their tribe grow.