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HEC SECTOR-II MARKET HAVEN FOR EVETEASERS
Independent : July 19, 1990
Osama Manzar The beauty lies In the eyes of the eve teaser-pounds an Improved rather modern version of the Shakespearean saying. Right So! Many girls even middle-aged women feel that If they have not been one time or another teased by the street Romeo., the hours spent poshing up in from of mirror are all a waste. Their mode of dressing up is so revealing at time., even the men an the wrong side of 50 cannot but take a leering look at it. In this milieu, the HEC Sector -II marketing complex is a haven for the eve teaser. during evening hours. Youths who throng around the market place are not among those domesticated ones who are chased out of their houses for doing the purchase of household commodities; nor are they any found of window shoping; they are there simply to hone up their aesthetic sense. In the process, they even do not spare women as old as their mothers from casting amorous glances. In this background what provides a contrast is that the girls and women put up with the eveteasing and catcalls with a gusto-as if it has become a way of life. Apart from a few stray incidents in which a row was kicked up following a protest against evetearing, things have never come to a head so far, but if the custodians of law do not come down upon the so-called street Romeos heavily, a time does not seem to be afar when it will be a real problem for womenfolk to come to the Sector U market for their day-to-day-buying.
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