So, it has been proved yet again that women would always be judged without any substance. Eyes gawking at them will judge them for their dress, job, marital status, parental status, everything and anything. The society will never fails to amaze, every time they have reasons to back their judgement as well. The reason I put society on the spot is because, it is not just a man who judges woman, it’s a society as whole. This also comes as a shame, when cinema like Pink and actors like Amitabh Bachchan are trying to do their bit, making everyone understand that it is high time we give women their due and to our astonishment, somehow we still fail at it.
A similar incident happened with this Mumbai woman who took a cab to travel from one part of the city to another. As a concerned citizen like many of us, she asked her cab driver to not spit on the road, he happened to be chewing ‘guthka’. The driver didn’t listen to her instead she was subjected to a harsh judgment for being a single lady living in a metro city.
Out of her helplessness, Noopur vented out her frustration narrating the whole incident in a Facebook post. This is what it reads:
I took a cab (kaali peeli) today morning from Prabhadevi to Lower Parel to get to work and started talking to the taxi driver about when he starts his day, where he lives and on how much rent. It was going well till I saw him eating gutka. I didn’t have a problem with him doing that at all, but I knew what was going to follow – he was going to spit on the road. I told him to avoid spitting on the road and he told me how he never does. In the next five minutes, he did spit and I stopped him from doing that again. My argument being that pedestrians have to walk in that muck and it spreads diseases. He came at me saying how it is completely okay to add a drop to the ocean that is already existing. I tried to tell him again how he wouldn’t want his kids to walk in other people’s filth. What he said next disgusted me to another level. He told me, “Madam, main toh sirf road pe gandagi kar raha hoon. Aap toh samaaj mein gandagi karti hain. Aap ladko ke saath soti hai.” (I’m just dirtying the roads, you spread dirt in the society by sleeping with guys)
He said this when I got out of the cab and before I could act upon what he said – I would’ve either slapped him or taken his vehicle number and reported him to the police – he sped away.
I am writing this post because I don’t know how else to vent my anger and frustration. I am confused as to why he dared to say something so sickening – either his male ego was hurt very badly that a young girl tried to stop him from spitting, or because he just assumed that single girls living in Mumbai generally sleep with guys. I hope when any of you reading this come across someone like this taxi driver, you be prepared with something as heinous. I’m prepared for the next time, just hoping that no one makes me feel as sick in my stomach again.
It is shocking to see people having audacity to judge someone for just being themselves and say absurd things about someone’s character just like that! Noopur, who only tried to put some sense into the driver’s head, had to go through this for no apparent matter of substance. (ALSO READ: Kolkata restaurant ‘Mocambo’ gets slammed after a Facebook post alleging discriminatory behaviour goes viral)
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