ON APRIL 13, 2008, there is another news which shows that the media is unmindfully supportive of sexually aggressive and abusive women, by camouflaging their misdeeds under the traditional "innocent" image of women, and exhorting to the traditional protective instincts of the society towards this "innocent" image.
A sales girl spoke rudely to a girl on phone who wanted to get a certain video CD home delivered. when the girl went up to the store, she was slapped and manhandled there by the sales girl. Upon this the girl called her father, a senior citizen (65 yrs old). An altercation followed, and the sales girl grabbed a knife and stabbed the aged man, injuring him seriously.
The sales girl, true to the ways of such girls, accused the man and the girl of having slapped her and tore her clothes and "threatened to strip her naked and parade her", and that she stabbed the man in self-defense.
It is unimaginable for a brother, sister and father trio in Delhi to go and threaten a sales girl to strip and parade naked in public.
The TV media took the side of the salesgirl and reported the matter as if she was assaulted and she acted in self-defense. Again, one look at her, and her body movement, and you know that she is no "damsel in distress". The forces of heterosexualisation are giving extreme powers and dangerous protection to such abusive women.
The newspaper news, which at least presents both the perspectives is here:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/storypage/storypage.aspx?id=ee36a048-76e9-4c1a-a02a-d8d0b87e4491&MatchID1=4680&TeamID1=6&TeamID2=3&MatchType1=1&SeriesID1=1179&PrimaryID=4680&Headline=They+slapped+me+and+tore+my+clothes%3a+Salesgirl
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