neither EVE TEASING nor ADAM TEASING

[Farhana Helal Mehtab]

"Feel proud to be a woman. Women should have self respect. They must know how precious they are. I always raise my voice against eve teasing. Still I convey this message to my female students  that they must groom their personality in such a way so that people think twice before saying anything against them. In any way they should not provoke anyone to pass a comment."

Those were the words which I delivered yesterday in my speech in DIU Uttara campus Orientation Program Spring 2013. I added, "In our DIU campus, there must not be any EVE Teasing or ADAM Teasing."

I convey my special thanks to our honorable VC sir, Dean sirs of Science faculty & Business School, Proctor sir for appreciating my thoughts & ideas after the speech session. The big applause  from students after my speech proved that our students think positively. My good wishes for all the new & old students of Daffodil International University.

FARHANA HELAL MEHTAB
Head of Law

[Farhana Israt Jahan]

well said mam in your speech..

[shahida sultana shimu]

Dear ma`am,
                  "Eve teasing is an important issue that needs urgent attention.  A recent study by the Bangladesh National Women Lawyers Association showed that nearly 90 percent of girls aged between 10 and 18 have experienced eve teasing.  About 13,000 women became victims of harassment and violence across the country during January-July, 2008.  In 2010, eve-teasing resulted in 20 instances of suicide."
                                                                                  So we must be so much attention to avoid eve teasing.Various reasons are suggested for the prevalence of sexual harassment in Bangladesh. Some feel that it is the direct consequence of a puritanical and sexually repressive society, especially one in which women traditionally have no voice and nothing resembling equal rights.

shahida sultana shimul

[Wasim]

Eve teasing is a euphemism used in  Bangladesh as well as all over the world for public sexual harassment, street harassment or molestation of women by men.  Dear ma'am, we should raise our voice stop EVE TEASING.

[Farhana Helal Mehtab]

Dear Shimu,

Do you remember the study work of last year that we did in our law project "Violence Against Women in Bangladesh"? The condition of women in Bangladesh is really sad. Thanks for BANWLA's data for readers. Protecting women is the responsibility of the country, its true ..... but at the same time women should have some responsibilities for themselves. I believe one day social awareness will help us to move on......

Thanks Wasim & Israt.

ma'am

[shyful]

Excellent post ma;am!

But what about your words on  Adam teasing!!!

Actually I didnt see that but heared and I expect to hear your views on it.

Thanks

[Rabeya Binte Habib]

Dear Madam

Thanks a lot for your wonderful & enlightening speech at the Orientation Program at Uttara this spring. It still buzz at my mind.

Regarding your post: Unfortunately, our law is not strong enough against such crime. People look forward to seeing the highest crime against women. Other than that they just read/ listen to it .... in terms of molestation/ verbal crime against women. Very often people who should speak more against it, suppress the victim (s) saying "you are not raped, so I suggest to keep silence"/ " are you confident to prove your point"/ "Don't do it; your life will be spoiled again" / " Don't you make your family's life HELL"-blablabla BEING A JUDGE her/himself

Regarding Adam teasing, I heard of it from paper (any). Would like to know more about it.

Rabeya Binte Habib
Lecturer, Department of English
Daffodil International University

[shyful]

Thanks  Ma:am  and

Rabeya Binte Habib Ma;am

I just wana add  a few more words with you that. Actually Law does not mean it as eve teasing but sexual harassment ,and  there have a many substantive criminal laws which prescribed clear forms of punishment for those deviant behavior as subjected to crime. I think subjectivity is important here, because all forms of sexual harassment are not fallen in same kinds of reasons, and perhaps it might not be wrong that  sometimes, this is  the women who herself create that sort of circumstances. So this perhaps not an attitude of male always.That's,  it  would be necessary to do same qualitative data analysis on it ! Because in this subject, the  quantitative analysis will create some other problem too . Like an example if a boy just offer love to a girl and that girl (particular ) girl consider it as sexual harassment what would be the circumstances indeed! it perhaps would be ;like that  all boyz must  need to stop to say i love you , isnt it !!

Thanks Ma;am 

[Rabeya Binte Habib]

Thanks for your comment

I guess u took us to some other path, that at least I'm not talking about at all.

[shyful]

May be! but thanks for your  reply ma;am