Noisy T Shirts

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You are definitely kidding me!

Let us consider the odds.

Imagine:

1) A “pretty” girl wearing a pink Tee with a statement like “What you looking at?” printed on it standing on the city road paying the auto meter and then stepping into a posh shopping mall

2) A statement like this being placed right above her Oh!-So-Precious breast.

3) This statement now translated to a local language so that even auto drivers, bus drivers, watchmen, street mongrels and any other person capable of groping at the "pair " will not leave the text unread.

4) Not only the “pretty” girl but walking along with her are a couple of “pretty” friends of the girl wearing the recommended BNP Tees with the text translated into various local languages hence facilitating anyone who does not know a certain local language to try reading the text in some other language he knows so that he will get a guaranteed opportunity of gaping at the three pairs of you-know-what in an attempt to read that statement.

5) What the hell? even if you do not know any local language you can still gape at the pair wondering what is written hence ensuring an all round probability that the you-know-what does not go unspotted.

If the above scenario sounds lewd to you, this is exactly what the T-Shirt intentionally/un-intentionally conveys:

I can not wait till I spot a girl in my city wearing this Tee so that I can walk upto her and appreciate (if appreciating is not considered as harassing) her courage for wearing such a shameless Tee and walking around a public place.

Imagine walking into your office one morning wearing a Tee with “What you lookin’ at?” neatly printed on your breasts - You left wondering why everybody chose to wish your breasts “Good Morning” more often than you as you walked down the corridor. I will be the least bit surprised if a colleague were to walk upto you that day and say

“Hey girl! You have incredible breasts, Thanks for bringing it to my knowledge today”

(Undoubtedly, this event would come up as another BNP blog entry that would read “Harassment at office place” with your colleagues pic put up on BNP blog for the world to see and a note below it that will read “This man had the guts to walk upto me and say my breasts look pretty”!) Phew!

Even worse is having the text printed in a local language and to stand in front of an auto driver negotiating the meter charge while he ogles at whatever you chose to let him ogle at. Trust me, a perverted auto driver will take you anywhere around the city absolutely free for such services from your end.

I can not help but roll on the floor laughing when I imagine seeing this Tee put up at a BNP “What were you wearing when you got harassed?” campaign and this Tee being put up for display in a museum somewhere in Bangalore to prove that “You dint ask for it”!!!

Frankly, Who came up with this silly idea? Who were the ones who approved it? Don’t these people consider any possible consequences prior to coming up with an “innovative” idea to grab attention? Whom are they trying to intimidate? Will this technique really return the intended consequence?

To me, the text written on the flyer which says “Blank Noise T-Shirts. Buy 2 get 1 free! Hurry!” clearly sounds like an Ad campaign to sell BNP merchandise. Is BNP being made a brand? Is that the intention to make women blindly associate themselves with the BNP brand under the delusion that they are combating social evil simply by wearing meaningless BNP merchandise? What if there are women who actually buy this T shirt!? Even worse wear it and call themselves activists!

“Hey Girl! Now this BNP is doing this wonderful challenging-social-evils thingy. Now for you girl, to be identified to be among the in-crowd doing the cool activist thingy you need to buy this T-shirt and propagate our brand”

(You better do this quick while stocks last)

I am left speechless when I read:

“T-shirts for happy auto rikshaw rides :)”

I don’t even want to write about it.

I just humbly want to rephrase it to:

“T-shirts for happy* auto rikshaw drivers “

* at your cost (bring in your friends too for even happier auto drivers, afterall buy 2 get 1 free)

I cant believe they actually got one of them to focus the camera exclusively on their breasts for such a dumb propaganda!

THE FINAL WORD: NO GIRL NEEDS TO BE WOOED INTO BUYING ANY OF THIS CONTRIVED MERCHANDISE, BEYOND WHAT SHE ALREADY CHOOSES TO WEAR IN ORDER TO BE HARASSED AT. SUCH MERCHANDISE IS COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY TO COMBAT SEXUAL HARASSMENT.

Bring an (unasked for) tryst! Enjoy the T-Shirt!

The Wrong Noise Saga begins...

In a sad spate of events, An ardent supporter and a silent observer of the Blank Noise Project ( in fact one of those zealous people who initially volunteered in their operations, though ultimately contributed nothing) who in a flash of lightning which struck him in his bathtub realizes how this wonderful burgeoning effort called Blank Noise Project is now going to the dogs because of the short-sighted, self-obsessed modes of operations and (recent) Low-Key, transient, No-Brainer attention grabbing antics of the acting members.

Here he (Oops! did I just mention "HE"?) will present satirical and logical compilations of:

• Why they are going nowhere with their recent blank noise project operations.
• Why such an effort may not take them anywhere - theoretically.
• Explain why their no-brainer attention grabbing antics will work viciously against them though it might spark attention initially.
• Why its important to sustain the already grabbed attention with innovation rather than generate it in spikes using self-obsessed desperate capers.
• Afterall what is all this attention for?!
  

Finally...

• Why this blog in all its literalness is not working against them but FOR them (as in - against the act of sexual harassment and possibly several other social evils).
  

Un-Statutory Warning: All ye people, Be warned, this blog will at most times represent logical, non-perverted views of men who have their libido leashed unto their reigns, those of whom may unwittingly belong to the male species. Certain women readers are expected to exhibit compassion towards such men in spite of their belonging to the species you might currently be at war against.

NOTE:

1) This blog represents an insignificant individual's ideas and points of view which are given primal importance in this context as this is his own stage where he will do all his song and dance. Buy It or Leave It.

2) This blog in NO WAY shall represent an entire community's/specie's interest and is not working against any community or specie :-P .

3) This blog does not promise to eradicate ANY social evil on ANY particular time line. (However it might obliterate an enormous amount of stupidity as an unintentional side effect)

4)The author of this blog WILL tolerate any kind of abominate or apprising annotates/comments (inclusive of Oh!-You-are-such-a-loser kinds) since the blogger assumes himself to be a logical person and hence assumes logical people to respond to his blog entries.

5) NO, THIS BLOG DOES NOT HARBOR PERVERSION/PERVERTS (thought, word and deed) OF ANY KIND, IN ALL ITS VARIANTS OF DEFINITION .

THIS BLOG IS STRONGLY AGAINST HARASSMENT OF ANY KIND.