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Sometimes I really feel like dropping on my knees and saluting the “moral polices”; I have always been their eyesore, even though I covered myself from feet to palms, baring only face, neck, feet and palms yet I was scorned upon because I always wore salwar suit, not the normal Bengali uniform (for women) sari.
Recently a police officer made a comment that women are provoking rape by wearing salwar suit.
Salute oh caveman dwelling inside a modern man.
You guys are amazing.
as to say…turn the other cheek…
xoxoxo—{–@
soulbro*
Please do the aboriginal cave-dwellers a tiny favour.
Make multiple copies of this wonderful piece to gift them. It is our moral duty to help the ignorant and illiterate.
This type of excuse used by some men has been out there for quite awhile and is pretty much found around the world…one judge is Cananda made a similar comment…it is very sad.
It is so easy to blame the victim, not the person initiating the action.
A great poem fighting against the perception of blaming survivors. Thanks for sharing
-b