Kumar and the woman who is not Miss India Worldwide..
830am. Saturday.. 44 bus.. heading up the East Coast. Soca playing. I jump in the front seat. Church Road. Driver in kangol and shades. Driver change to some other dancehall tunes. Name Kumar on the windshield with the phone number. A photo of Kumar and some children. On the Dashboard, right hand side.. murti - Lord Krishna and Lord Vishnu and the fresh flower; on the left hand side, white woman with bikini and long hair.. no fresh flower. Hindu religion allows that.. the temples at Khajuraho have lots of sex images.
Sheriff Street. Stop light. The bus is full of men and loud noise through the window. Over the road, three women.. one of them her skirt is blowing up. She trying to keep it down.
The Men are loud.. probably like the men and women who cheer on the beauty pageant contestants (or boo or mock or tear apart those they think should not win the beauty pageants)
Kumar is there too.. the loud music also in the bus.. I ask Kumar.. what wrong.. why they don't you leave the woman alone?
The woman, Kumar said.. should know better. She should not wear a dress which blow up. I said to Kumar.. what if is your sister.. Kumar said that his sister would not dress like that.. the women .. all of them , were looking at the bus in fear.
The bus rile up though.. and the whole journey.. all the young women on the road, regardless of how they were dressed were targets of the language of rape.. violence..
And we hear this Sunday morning that 'Guyana' get in.. there is a Miss India Worldwide or something like that.
Guyanese women - including women and girls who are beaten, raped, harassed are told that the beauty pageants are good for them.. that the men like Kumar and his passengers in the bus will respect and love women more because of the pageants and the prominence given to the women and girls
Men don't need to participate in pageants.
(There is some MBC Miss Phagwah too.. something about the Hindu festivals and the degradation of women)
I asked Kumar what if a man called out to him wanting sex and so on because the man think Kumar dress nice and looking for sex.. he looked at me funny but kept driving..
I mourn for all of those who believe that women have to participate in beauty pageants to get respect and for Guyana to get fame.
Sheriff Street. Stop light. The bus is full of men and loud noise through the window. Over the road, three women.. one of them her skirt is blowing up. She trying to keep it down.
The Men are loud.. probably like the men and women who cheer on the beauty pageant contestants (or boo or mock or tear apart those they think should not win the beauty pageants)
Kumar is there too.. the loud music also in the bus.. I ask Kumar.. what wrong.. why they don't you leave the woman alone?
The woman, Kumar said.. should know better. She should not wear a dress which blow up. I said to Kumar.. what if is your sister.. Kumar said that his sister would not dress like that.. the women .. all of them , were looking at the bus in fear.
The bus rile up though.. and the whole journey.. all the young women on the road, regardless of how they were dressed were targets of the language of rape.. violence..
And we hear this Sunday morning that 'Guyana' get in.. there is a Miss India Worldwide or something like that.
Guyanese women - including women and girls who are beaten, raped, harassed are told that the beauty pageants are good for them.. that the men like Kumar and his passengers in the bus will respect and love women more because of the pageants and the prominence given to the women and girls
Men don't need to participate in pageants.
(There is some MBC Miss Phagwah too.. something about the Hindu festivals and the degradation of women)
I asked Kumar what if a man called out to him wanting sex and so on because the man think Kumar dress nice and looking for sex.. he looked at me funny but kept driving..
I mourn for all of those who believe that women have to participate in beauty pageants to get respect and for Guyana to get fame.
