Eve Teasing — Story From Childhood

When I was kid, we used to travel from one town to other for attending our school. Whenever we missed our school bus, we had to travel by a public roadways bus. In roadways bus we used to travel with some other routine passengers, uncles, aunties and some college students. Some of the college students (girls) had passed out from my school only, so I knew few of them. Every now and then there used to be these cases of eve teasing to those girls. Even if the girls were courageous enough to resist this practice those boys would still laugh and make fun of them. BTW, these girls were as decently dressed/behaved as possible. I kind of hated those boys. By now, they must be having their own daughters to realize the irony.
And since then I have been hating such anti-social, sick elements. I also used to wonder that there were mostly just the girls from my school who were studying in nearby city college, I couldn’t find many boys from my school. May be most of the boys moved to some bigger/metro cities for better education opportunities.
When you are involved in eve teasing or molestation, you are not just harassing someone physically or mentally, its way deeper than that. It affects a girl’s career and future, immensely. It creates a fear in the society and because of that fear, most of the decisions are taken to deal with that fear and the true talent/potential of a girl go wasted. They had to miss many great opportunities because they were afraid to leave home. Their parents were scared for them, and that’s why most of them were forced to study in the colleges available in same town or nearby city. For boys, there was no such condition as there was no such fear. Now after 12-15 years, things have started changing and parents found the courage to send their daughters to metro cities for some better opportunities but these sick-minded, anti-social elements are still doing the same thing. They are still trying to create fear in the society so that these girls can go and hide in their safe homes, so that they again compromise and sacrifice their talent and the opportunities they could cease. Well, when I imagine my sister or daughter (which I don’t have right now) in such situation, I do feel angry.
And its just not me who feels this way, every person of a small city can relate to it.
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