aleena
I’m a 16 year old Indian girl who lives in the UK. When me and my family went to India for the summer holidays I wore leggings and a top to the shops to get some sweets for me and my brother. On my way there I was catcalled multiple times and everyone was staring at me. At first I was confused but my I got home I told my family and my aunt told me it was because I was dressed like a ‘slut’. My brother and male cousins are allowed to behave in any way that they want but if I do the same thing I get in trouble and get told to act ‘ladylike’. I once asked to go to a concert and my dad told me I wasn’t allowed to go cos ‘girls shouldn’t go out like that’. I wore a crop top and a family member told me I was more likely to get raped like that. In India sexism is so common everyone’s used to it. However in the UK I face similar things as well. On tik tok I see many boys commenting stuff about women being objects under videos of girls dancing but when boys do the same things (and even sexualise the dance) they are praised for it. Why are girls put down but boys are praised for doing the same things?!