The wrath of panties

The recent assault on young women in a pub in Mangalore by members of the Sri Rama Sena group, an extreme right group known for stirring communal tension on the grounds of religion and its attempts at being the moral police, has created a furor and rightly so.

Incidents like this further go to show that Sri Ram Sena group is actually just a group of hooligans who meet up in their ‘headquarters’  to drink tea  and probably watch porn while raising their ‘moral’  fingers at women who go to the pub.

Anger towards this incident however has been interestingly channeled towards creating a symbolic campaign aimed at the whole of the chauvinistic, women beating, self acclaimed  ‘moral demi-gods’ who have of course, taken it upon themselves to retain the ‘balance’ in the society just the way god had deemed it to be.

And, this is where the pink panties come into play. Approximately 34,000 pink panties were couriered to Mr. Pramod Mutalik, the leader of Sri Ram Sena on Valentine’s day as a symbolic gesture by the Consortium of  Pub-going, Loose and Forward Women. One thing is for sure, Mr. Mutalik will never run short of a fresh change.

Its interesting how women have used underwear as such a strong symbol of dissent which almost always has provoked an immediate response from those who the dissent is aimed at. The only way to explain this phenomenon is because many men are at the end of the day just scared of the woman’s anatomy. They fear the unknown curves and contours that is unique to every woman.

In 2007, a young woman in Rajkot, India, managed to shake up the usually sleepy police authority by another symbolic gesture. After several unheeded pleas and complaints made by the young woman to the Police for being repeatedly harassed by her in-laws for dowry; the woman marched down the main roads of Rajkot, in her bra and panty, armed with a baseball bat and bangles. This show of defiance jerked the police authority from their ineffectual existence into action which resulted in the immediate arrest of her in-laws.

The moral of the blog is, all you ignorant MCP’s out there, beware of the wrath of the panties!