Tuesday, February 06, 2007

snatched from my favorite blog:

    The Indian Staring Project. I heard on the BBC this morning about a woman in India who organized 35 women to sit together along a busy street, where men usually go to stare at women. These women spent the day staring at men as they walked by, to make a statement about the cultural practice of men in India staring and harassing women on the street. Men who were “caught” in the project were interviewed and said that being stared at by 35 women was upsetting and made them feel self-conscious. They agreed that it was an effective way to get them to understand how it makes women feel to be stared at like objects everywhere we go.


that is so brilliant! i should totally follow their lead here in DC and start asking grown men on the street why they're not smiling (oh, could it be because you have a real life to ponder instead of daydreaming about flowers and puppies and girls all day?). hmmmmm.

1 Comments:

Blogger Kumie said...

touche

1:46 PM  

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