This happened in Delhi. Yesterday evening, I was at a take away place and I had ordered something and was waiting for my order to come through. This young girl about 13 or so walks in and orders some take away food at the counter and stands back waiting for her order to be ready. There’s this group of men in their early thirties were waiting there too. This kid is hardly 13 and has no breasts to speak of and she’s wearing jeans and a long shirt below her hips with an open collar. This dirty group of young men stared openly at the kid’s chest. Made me feel creepy. Think about it, she’s just a kid! It made me very angry, but I couldn’t do much, so I moved myself and positioned myself in front of the kid so the other guys couldn’t ogle at her, as in I came in their line of vision. I cannot go all around town slapping people. That was the best I could do at that moment. What is the world coming to? Everybody has kids who are 12 or 13 at one point of time in life! Sickening!
– Tbg
Location: Delhi, India
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Sameera says
Bad.. very bad!! Why is it that men irrespective of age do that. May be they are so mind fucked that they don’t understand kids anymore.
Golden Silence says
Tbg, I’ve read a few entries on your blog and am glad to know that there’s a male ally like you looking out for the best interests of women and girls. Thank you!
Sirisha says
I am 26 and have experienced eve-teasing first hand so many times that I actually lost count. But the way the above incident was described ,it is sickening and makes me very angry. But in general, we take all these stuff for granted and rather do not try to bother when strangers follow, comment unnecessarily or even talk vulgarly. I am aware that in the early years of 2000,most of the girls in my college(Hyderabad) used to carry safefy pins and wear high -heeled sandals while boarding public buses. Those were used as weapons should some guy touch you in the bus . But weirdly, even old ‘uncles'(in their 60’s) were also part of the same game. They might not comment or try to initiate a talk but were always ogling and anxious to touch the girls given a chance.Surely, it’s a big bad world and I still hear the same mess happening:/