Covers and Cover-ups

Covers are used to hide what's beneath. So, it's a kind of cover-up, I guess.

What can be covered?

Crimes, as we learn from the great mystery writers, and not so great mystery serials (C.I.D.).

Books, and note-books, as we learnt in school.

Bodies, to prevent others from seeing how ugly we really look (ha, ha)

Homes, so that we have a roof over our head- literally!

Stadiums, so the screams of the Football/Cricket fans don't cause noise pollution.

Water-filled buckets, so the mosquitoes don't breed like pigeons (they seem to be everywhere, like the sheep in New Zealand).

Cups of tea and coffee, so they don't get cold while waiting for the drinker to arrive.

Harvey Weinstein

There has been a lot of positive spinoff from the Weinstein scandal, and we are at least more aware of the extent to which females are routinely harassed by male colleagues, friends or relatives. This could be step one. If we were under the illusion that it was an emerging market phenomenon, it now stands corrected. Some of Hollywood's most known were targeted. And in the Clinton era, the vulnerable interns who worked for him.

The reasons why women who are harassed don't complain are also generally similar. They are afraid that they will not be taken seriously in a  male-dominated society. The fight usually gets ugly if it gets to a court, with lawyers raking up unrelated issues. In a country like ours, unfortunately, the woman if single, may not be able to find a husband-again, the same patriarchal problems.

Hopefully, the opening up of near and dear ones will at least give courage to more women to oppose unwanted attention (or worse), and stop many attempts in their tracks (and men to support them when they speak up). In a Utopian world, molestation should not happen. But then, we don't live in one.