Causes & Impacts of Eve Teasing in Bangladesh Perspective

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Who are eve-teasers and who are victim:

Eve teasers may be any person on the street, in front of schools and colleges, inthe buses, trains, lifts, shopping mall, anywhere teases girls in any form of vocabulary, gesture, or directly physical assault. Among the eve teasers from rich to poor, being illiterate to educated, being young to middle age men are included in this heinous act. Generally, eve teasers are school students, college students, university students, jobless young man, rickshaw pullers, street traders, bus drivers, bus conductors, labors, security guards etc are involved in eve-teasing.

According to Irin Khan an international spokesman says the eve teasers are school students, college students, university students, jobless young man, rickshaw pullers, street traders, bus drivers, bus conductors, labors, security guards etc are involved in eve-teasing. Young and adult, rich and poor, educated or uneducated all classes are involved in this heinous act. The victims are also from various classes like factory workers, domestic workers, students and high class professional women. Eve-teasing may be cores for poor income group, but richness does not guarantee free from eve teasing. [Irin Khan, 2010]

Causes of Eve-teasing:

Among others there are eight major causes of eve teasing found out by various social research organization and prominent persons. These are: family and social causes, unemployment facimisism, open sky culture, political atmosphere, administrative, carelessness, social cultural activities, demonstration effect, Lacking of respect to each other [Najneen Akhter, Daily Janakontha, 2010]. However the following points may be taken into account as causes of eve-teasing:

1.Natural attraction to each other: One of the great causes of eve teasing comes from the natural tendency of man and woman to attract each other when they openly see each other at the stage of puberty. Sometimes male can not control himself and he indulges with eve teasing.

2.Lake of religious education: When people are not religiously educated they will not understand respect of women by man and vice versa. The general education system in Bangladesh is totally secular and no student can learn religious knowledge from their classes. That is why they do not know what is prohibited and what is permitted by Allah. They also don’t know about punishment of bad deeds in the day after this world. For this reason they are doing evil deeds frequently without any fear. According to research we find that there is no Madrasha student who got religious education involved in eve teasing.

3.Unmindful about religions: There are a lot of persons who remain unmindful and blind to religious boundary. Religion teaches a person good behavior, morality, ethics, social and personal dealings, code of conduct, manner etc. When a man is careless about his religion naturally he falls under some bad dealings like eve teasing.

4.Unfair dress: Unfair dresses are great causes for eve teasing now days. We found that fair dressed woman specially woman with Hijab never harassed and teased by teaser in Bangladesh. And 99.9% victim of eve teasing was not covered by Hijab or fair dress [Aminul Hoque, 2012, p-5]. Sometimes unfair dresses of the women instigate an eve teaser.

5.Open sky culture: Open sky culture, satellite communication, internet etc are to great stand responsible for eve teasing. People see free sex, free mixing of men and women via various televisions programs; internet etc. and they try to do same things which caused eve teasing.

6.Absence of Family Educations: Parents now a day remain carefully careless about the movement of the son and daughter. Students are going entertainment spots, markets, streets etc. for getting fun instead of going to their educational institution and this carelessness encourages eve teasing.

7.Political patronize: Some time political parties do not take legal action against eve teaser for their political motives and sometimes political parties use their activists to harass their rival parties and thus eve teasing increases.

8.Cultural aggression: Sometimes alien cultural aggression may induce eve teasing. Some countries try to dominant another country by cultural aggression and the culture of those countries is not viable in our country that is why eve teasing increases.

9.Absence of Law: Absence of Law is a great factor of encouraging eve teasing. There are some laws to prevent eve teasing but we not enough and the implementation of these laws is difficult due to procedural complexity, political influence etc.

10.Alcoholism and Drug addiction: Uninterrupted alcoholism and drug addiction is a great cause of eve teasing. When a man devours intoxicating materials he looses his conscience and that time he can do any bad things like eve teasing.

11.Unemployment: Unemployed people are evil doers and engaged in eve teasing. When a man has no work to do he becomes a devil and only for spending his time do eve teasing.

12.Lack of social bondage: Lack of social bondage is a big cause of eve teasing. Now a days, people are busy with their own purposes and not looking with their brother, sister, relatives, neighbors. Fellow feedings are lessening day by day that is why eve teasing is increasing day by day.

13.Computer, Mobile etc: Computers and mobiles have become mobile cinema house with free call, free talk time, free SMS. Without showing his identity a man can make friendship with opposite sex, and this kind of friendship causes a lot of eve teasing.

14.Obscene cinema, drama and song: Obscene cinema and drama sometimes encourage eve teasing. If a boy finds in cinema or drama an eve teaser a hero then he is encouraged to involve with eve teasing.

15.Environment: A great factor of encouragement of eve teasing is negative environment in the society. Quarrel between parents, neighbors, relatives makes a negative environment in the society and this causes impact on the mind of the children and 5 they involves with negative works like eve teasing.

Impacts of eve teasing:

1.Suicide: In many cases when eve teasing crosses borders and is known to every body, it becomes intolerant to the victims and sometimes she is forced to commit suicide. Media, newspapers etc are always full of dangerous news of suicide after being teased by vagabond. From January to December 2010 Odhikar documented that 129 female victims were assaulted or injured by stalkers. In addition, 25 women and 127 men were assaulted or injured due to protesting against stalking. Also 25 women and