'What Were You Wearing?' This Powerful Video Takes A Dig At The Laconic Nature Of Public Outrage

Ahead of Women’s Day this year, Vitamin Stree released a powerful video addressing the pervasive ritual of cat-calls unapologetically perpetrated by men.

 

If women get verbally harassed, ‘accidentally’ felt up or sexually assaulted, it’s not the perpetrator who is at fault, but the woman and her choice of clothes. The staple, “What were you wearing?” question is hurled at the woman every time. Occasionally however, when an assault is too brutal and ruthless, people come out on the streets and protest. 

 

But the video takes a dig at the laconic nature of public outrage as well: “Collective outrage unites us like nothing else” but “outrage wears thin with age”. This outrage brings the country together, but only momentarily. Eventually, everybody forgets about the incident and the country spirals back into complacency.