write a letter to editor describing about boys teasing girl students
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Model town
New Delhi-6891xx
12/10/20xx
The Editor
The Hindu
New Delhi(sector 2)
SUB:HArssement of girl students
Sir,
through the coloums of your esteemed daily i would like to highligth that boys are teasing some girl students in our locality. I know I am being simplistic; such sick minds are a product of a sick society where such attitudes have survived, and have been encouraged by acts of omission or commission over generations.
Two recent events, though not involving sexual harassment, point to the fact that parents either don’t believe that their sons can do any wrong, or will just not admit it. One involved the public display of arrogance by the son of a legislator in Vijayawada, and the other involved a road accident involving the son of a rich businessman in Mumbai. In both cases the fathers refused to acknowledge that the sons were to blame; the first said it was a ‘small matter’ while the second refused to believe that the son could do any wrong (in this case, the son already has an earlier hit and run case pending against him).
But then sexual harassment cuts across social classes, age groups and economic background. Remember the recent case of a middle-aged businessman who inappropriately touched a young woman on a flight, and was caught on camera grinning and ‘apologizing’. Examples abound, but in almost every case the woman at the receiving end gets the blame- why was she wearing what she was wearing; why was she out at so and so time; why was she in an ‘unsafe’ part of the city and so on. And there are apologists for why men behave the way they do – here I recall the infamous words of Mulayam Singh Yadav that ‘boys will be boys.’
Indeed, boys will be boys, but if I were the father of a boy who misbehaved with a woman, I would not only hang my head in shame, I would also do a reality check as to where I failed as a father. I would ensure that even if it was a one-off incident, my son would be punished so severely that he would spend a lifetime regretting what he did. My son would not have to prove his masculinity by being crass and criminal; he would have to earn the respect of women, his peers, parents and family by being human, by being decent; and by caring for the feelings of others, especially women.
I address this to all parents, especially fathers – teach your sons to be men, not animals. One quote by Gloria Steinem comes to mind, (I have quoted it in an earlier post as well) – “We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.” Believe me, if we learn to do that we shall be looking at a world where men and women are equal, where decency is the norm, and where words like ‘eve-teasing’ and ‘sexual harassment’ do not exist. i humbly request u to please publish this report in ur daily.
yours truly
a concerned citizen
ABC
Dear Sir,
I want to your kind attention to the point that, I along with most of my friends, am being frequently disturbed by the eve teasers on the way to college and also our way back home. The situation is getting worse day by day. Already two of our friends have stopped attending college because of eve teasing. We feel the dire necessity to stop this nuisance.
Eve-teasing has always existed in society since quite a long time, but what used to be a simple joke has reached gigantic proportion so much so that once girls leave the corridors of their home, the parents are worried a lot till the time she returns home.
We hope that you will take stringent action against the culprits and maintain law and order in and around the college campus. The sooner the evil is nipped in the bud, the better it will be.
Yours most obediently,
(Student's Name)
