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Exual har@ssment is a major problem in Kathmandu's public transport or whatever passes in this city. I think when people travel cheek by jowl on our dark and often claustrophobic public transport system, there will always be few people who will look at these conditions and h@rass commuters. A lot of us, rather surprisingly, seem to think that this behavior is a $ exually repressed society that results in the lives of a result. I beg to differ.
I have been unfortunate enough to have first-hand experiences of commuting crushes in different parts of the world - in China, India, UK and Europe of various parts - and women all over, to some extent, face the same problem. Some of these countries are the most liberal in the world and almost all of them struggle with public transportation on police and exual har@ssment.
This type of behavior should not be attributed to se@ual repression (God knows that there are millions of ways to get se@ual frustration relieved) but should be seen for what it is - a crime of opportunity. And as long as those opportunities exist there will always be some bad apples looking to exploit it.
And in Nepal, these opportunities are often given on a silver platter to the perpetrators of the limited condition of our public transport and never ending endless traction workers who believe in the passengers in the vehicle in every available nook and cranny.
It ensures that the harassers are guaranteed near proximity to women and once you are in our erratic driving and less than perfect roads, you have a situation where they are, armed with a ready excuse, in the 'unadvertent' moves and touches. In most cases all of these touches and moves make women uncertain about whether it was intentionally or otherwise, leading to uncertainty of these people in conflict.
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