If only a handful of feminists are responsible for all that ails DU

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13. I do it all the time

All of us do. It wasn't so easy when I was 4, 10, and 12 though. At my age it's now less common and I'm long used to tuning it out. It doesn't terrify me like it did when I was a small child. However, the point of the behavior shown in that Indian PSA is to force women from public space, to claim it as male space. To force women to not go to public places, as is evidenced by the members here who said if we don't want to be harassed we should stay home or wear Burkas.

Now, how do you suggest those Indian women ignore rape? The point of that PSA is that behavior is linked to rape. The cultural attitudes that excuse that kind of harassment are the same that perpetuate rape, and indeed many of the individuals who harass in public also rape. But surely no one on this board is so out of it not to realize there is an epidemic of rape and murder of women in India, so you know very well that is part of what that PSA seeks to address. That some are see cultural efforts to curb harassment and rape as an assault on them says more about them than they realize.