SlutWalk Bangalore

Slut Walk Bangalore Post BANGALORE: New year celebrations soaked in festive spirit are witnessed in every major city including Bangalore. But, 2012 New Year's Eve began on a grim note for a few citizens. With a series of unfortunate events including acts of mindless crimes unfolding in various parts of the country; City Express talks to [...]

KALPANA SHARMA The view that women who dressed ‘provocatively’ had it coming to them is deeply ingrained in the Indian male psyche. Slut Walk Bangalore Post What an amazing New Year gift for Indian women! A police chief and a Minister telling them that if they get harassed, molested or raped, it is actually their fault. We [...]

Hindustan Times Slut Walk Bangalore Post An expert in women-studies in Bangalore has outraged young women all over the country with her recent comments, which suggest that a universal dress code for women could end sexual harassment. The former head of department of women studies at Bangalore University, Dr KK Seethamma said to a national daily that she [...]

Hindustan Times Slut Walk Bangalore Post ‘I am against women wearing obscene clothes. With such clothes, they tempt men, and that's why they (women) get raped.' It is bad enough that Indian men — not the most appealing of God's creatures — in positions of power occasionally make public, sexist statements that demean working women and female [...]

The National Shelina Zahra Janmohamed Jan 7, 2012 Slut Walk Bangalore Post Men are poor helpless creatures who can’t control their feelings or libidos, or so it seems they want society to think. I’m a believer in the general goodness of most men, but baffled by the attitude that they are helpless in the face of womanly [...]

Shri Dinesh Reddy, Director General of Police, Andhra Pradesh and Shri CC Patil, Women and Child Welfare Minister, Karnataka SlutWalk Bangalore Post 03 January, 2012 Respected Sirs, Subject – Seeking clarifications on your statements regarding women's clothing and sexual assault We read your statements about the necessity of women to not dress fashionably and to dress [...]

Times of India Newspaper SlutWalk Bangalore Post BANGALORE: SlutWalk Bangalore, which is spearheading a campaign against crimes targeting women, has strongly condemned Andhra Pradesh DGP Dinesh Reddy’s comments. Reddy on Friday was quoted as saying that “rape is increasing because women have started dressing fashionably”. “Once again we are seeing a familiar scenario being repeated. A crime [...]

Times of India Newspaper SlutWalk Bangalore Post That’s what women in Bangalore have to say about CC Patil’s remarks on how women should dress in the workplace. Andhra Pradesh director general of police Dinesh Reddy’s comments about women who dress in “flimsy and fashionable” clothing provoking men to harass them did not go down well with working [...]

Times of India SlutWalk Bangalore Post Women work in IT companies and call centres at night, they ought to know how much skin they should cover when they leave for such work places, the minister Mr. Patil said.

Times of India Newspaper SlutWalk Bangalore Post BANGALORE: When the head of the committee against sexual harassment in Bangalore University speaks about harassment, you listen. When TOI asked KK Seethamma, former head of the department of women studies, for her views on the recent statement of Karnataka women and child welfare minister CC Patil on women’s [...]