[Assam] Dress Code - Blame the Victim

[Ram Sarangapani]

>It would be interesting to know if there is research which shows that
>female attire and appearance has NO effect on male psyche

Whether is does or not is immaterial (IMHO). What is material is if a male
were to act upon it.

--Ram da





On 7/20/07, umesh sharma <jaipurschool at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I agree that NE students should not targetted - as Delhi Police guy has
> shone in his biased letter -esp about food , clothes etc.
>
> It would be interesting to know if there is research which shows that
> female attire and appearance has NO effect on male psyche.
>
> Umesh
>
> *Ram Sarangapani <assamrs at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>  Here is a letter from the Sentinel. Yesterday, there were a few others on
> the same subject, ie. the Delhi Police dress code for NE students.
>
> While most of would agree that the Delhi Police is basically off on a
> tangent and possibly showing its ignorance and rather discriminatory
> attitude toward NE students, I am quite surprised how many are willing
> (including the author below) to blame the victim here (instead of the
> perpetrator) for such crimes. Is the victim contributing to the crime?
> **
> *"Those tight and revealing clothes were then worn only by those who would
> invite the lusty crowd........."*
>
> I really wonder, how something like this would fly in the US in a
> rape/molestation case? Would the perpetrator get a pass because a certain
> 'societal dress code' wasn't followed? Would the victim be blamed first for
> not conforming.
>
> It is totally a different matter where a society may have certain
> expectations of decency and dress codes. IMHO, we must be careful in making
> a cause and effect relationship between how a person is dressed and crimes
> committed.
>  If we did, how different would that make us from the Delhi Police?
>
> There are umpteen research out there to show sex crimes are in no way
> related to how scantily a person is dressed.
> Maybe the burquas would do the trick (ie. keeping the "lusty crowd" at bay
> :):)
>
>
> --Ram
>
> *____________________*
> **
> *Decent Dress Sense
> *Apropos the letter entitled ''Of Dress Code'' (The Sentinel, July 18,
> 2007) by Salil Gewali, I personally join in the chorus to condemn the
> discriminating attitude of the Delhi Police authorities against students
> from the Northeast. The Northeast has been much neglected and
> underestimated, for which I hold the governments, both at the Centre and in
> the States, responsible.
> However, what Salil Gewali has said through his letter is totally correct
> as far as the 'modern' immodest dressing style is concerned, which is fast
> corrupting our society. Why have the kinds of dresses that were considered
> very indecent and sexually appealing, now become so normal, and why are we
> allowing our children to wear them? Could we ever imagine our children in
> those body-hugging outfits a decade ago? Those tight and revealing clothes
> were then worn only by those who would invite the lusty crowd.
> Has not the present indecent fashion trend been sexually desensitizing us?
> Just a kissing scene was so appealing some years back, while a semi-clad
> sultry siren doing an item number now fails to excite the audience. Why so?
> Is it not because we have abused the sex-feeling too much and, therefore,
> lost its appeal? Is it not a perverse trend?
> Samir Bora,
> Shillong-4
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