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Filling the gaps in gender studies -Kannalmozhi Kabilan

-The New Indian Express

Gender experts discuss the need for awareness, advocacy and activism to be streamlined through an academic route

CHENNAI: The recent slew of sexual harassment complaints from school students and alumni has made apparent a strange pattern the media tends to follow when it comes to matters of gender. Its particular penchant for calling on sexual harassment/abuse survivors to comment on the ‘developments’. For as the analogy goes, don’t we turn to the burgled to look for insights into the workings of burglars? Don’t we hold them responsible for coming up with effective prevention strategies? While it’s essential to hear from survivors and learn from the lived-in experiences, why place the onus of being right every step of the way on individuals merely doing their part? Why do we not look at the number of gender rights activists to steer the discourse on women’s issues?

Well, the answer is laziness, quips Swarna Rajagopalan, founder of The Prajnya Trust. “It’s also that you are organising a programme and more people will come to look at Chinmayi (for example) and listen to her than to me. Even otherwise, when journalists (not all of them, she clarifies) call, they ask if I have a victim they can interview. If I had a victim, would I parade them? It is also that mindset that somehow people need to be shocked into awareness and that’s not true. But I think people hear this and they are triggered. So, they don’t hear the other side of it; they don’t hear the analysis of why it happens so they can stop it in the future. They don’t hear that there is help available. I think this is what people imagine works,” she elaborates. While she makes an exception of Chinmayi, pointing out that the singer has gone to a lot of trouble to educate herself in the past few years, it is still too much to expect from survivors, Swarna suggests. 

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