“Ignore it.”
“It is normal.”
“It is no big deal.”
“Don’t speak about it and bring shame to the family.”
“Are you sure you are not imagining it?”
“But they don’t seem the type!”
“You just want attention.”
All of us have heard these statements while growing up in India. Most girls are extremely scared of speaking about living through an episode of sexual harassment anywhere outside the home, out of fear that their own parents might rubbish these experiences or worse, curtail whatever little right to education or financial independence they have. The only solution is to grin and bear it for the ‘larger picture’.
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