UGLY ART

Every day of their lives, women face what can only be described as an assault on their fundamental right to free movement and personal dignity. The sexual harassment that women are subjected to constitute a serious infringement of women's basic rights which are unique to them. It is imperative that women themselves assert their rights, fight collectively, awaken others who bear their humiliation in silence and find new ways of defending their rights .Women in India experience eve-teasing almost in every phase of her life every day, anywhere and everywhere ,on the roads, in the buses, railway stations, trains.. It is a clear case of sexual violation but most women prefer to ignore it as the authorities and the law-enforcing machinery are not always helpful and in fact connive with hooligans and criminals. As the situation deteriorates, in the context of hooliganism, harassment and official apathy, women should organize and assert themselves in the most effective way.
No girl can escape a derisive comment, uncouth staring, pinching, stalking, hooting, singing with sexual undertones and flashing objects or the ugly exposure of an ugly man. As they try to board a bus or train they are subjected to a squeeze here a touch there or a poking in the most undesirable place. There are those who make it a point to press against a woman in a crowded bus or train and enjoy the pleasure of the continuing with the pressure maintained at peak levels. If she does not protest, the thing will go on until the natural pressure releasing system comes to work. . No woman-whatever be her age-will be spared. Imagine their plight at night or after dusk has fallen.Sexual harassment and assault are targeted at women due to the view that women can be controlled and manipulated as there is a very false notion that females are the weaker sex. Assault is committed not only for sexual gratification but also to exert power or rather show superiority. In all societies and in almost all cases one can see women as victims and men as perpetrators.

Exhibitionism a psychological disorder causing a compulsion to show the genitals in public is yet another type of eve teasing. In Kerala no girl can pass alone through the roads without getting victimized to this nasty art of the psycho-neuro patients. Many of these ‘artists’ dressed well wait the whole day at less traffic parts of the roads to perform.