Posted on 06/17/2014 2:35:28 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Members of India's transgender community, known as Hijras, are now the stars of an entertaining advocacy campaign aimed at convincing India to buckle their seat belts.
The Seatbelt Crew, as the Mumbai-based Hijras are known, has taken to the streets of the country's financial capital to cajole motorists to strap themselves in. Indian roads are treacherous and according to the World Health Organization only 27 percent of drivers wear a seat belt even though it's mandatory.
A familiar sight on Indian streets, Hijras were recently recognized by India's courts as part of a third gender. They can be found wending their way through traffic-choked roads, in their eye-catching saris and make-up. They alternate between flirtation and aggression begging for money.
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Do they wash your windshield also?
The only thing that`d encourage me to do is roll up the windows and lock the doors.
They’re used as weapons, also.
If you have some civil matter that doesn’t get settled, you hire them to show up at a wedding involving that family.
And they dance around, making sure to attract maximal attention.
And then they lift up their skirts, either showing their gear, or worse, WHERE THEIR GEAR USED TO BE.
Them mere threat of arranging for this often yields a satisfactory settlement.
sounds like a lot of queers here.
How did we come to point to which the appearance of the word “Community” in a title means that I won’t like what comes next?
One of those Hijras was definitely hot......
I’m surprised that hasn’t been done in the US yet to get bakers to make gay ‘wedding’ cakes.
Yet another reason for me to never want to visit that filthy country....
Hey, wait a minute..... THAT’S not a squeegee!
Uh, is some bizarre freak standing in the middle of traffic, screaming into a bullhorn, really "promoting road safety"????
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