Right, I understand. I feel the same girls, when I am given my ‘curfew’ time at home, when I have to think thrice before buying a dress I really like, when I have to depend on male counterparts to visit certain places tagged ‘unsafe’, when I must spend more by taking an auto rather than a bus because I should be scared of boarding one!!
Who decides it all? I can assure you that my parents are very liberal, but at the same time they are afraid and love me a lot. Every parent of every girl in our city is overly protective about her. I hear it all the time, my friends telling me how ‘fed up’ they are of their parents putting restrictions on their lifestyle. Well I have been through this phase too, but thankfully out of it because I completely understand my parents’ point of view. For them, it is too big a risk to be taken. So it occurs to me that these things are not decided by our parents alone, but due to the presence of the evil residing in our society. I would name them the Swine.
I utterly don’t understand how the police work? What is it doing? The police is maybe unable to create security for women, not alert and strict enough or maybe too lethargic to investigate the cases properly, (encouraging more Swine to rule over), the reason for which the female counter parts are now being told to alter their lifestyles! Maybe that is easier but that is so totally unfair! It’s like, instead of catching the thieves and maintaining security in the city, you are asking people to stop earning? No money no danger from the thieves. What logic. These acts by the Swine should be countered using stringent punishments, intense inspection and no corruption! (Oh well corruption is the core cause of rise in all the crimes!)
Who are they to decide what I should wear and what time I should be returning home? If not, how can they take it as an opportunity to vent their sexual frustrations? Is that the respect we deserve?
No. In no situation can anyone justify the act of rape. No way. Rape can never be excused. Never ever. It does not matter even if the girl is drunk or wearing revealing clothes or alone at night. If it’s without her consent, it is rape. And not just that, letching and eve teasing is also a stab at a girl’s mental well being and social confidence. So we can conclude that a responsibility of a man is to be respectful, civilized and soulful. He can not take the advantage of being the ‘stronger sex’ (I wonder who coined that term!).
So now do I mean that women have no responsibility to play and that they can wear all they want and do with a devil-may-care attitude? A strict no! We have a culture that needs to be respected and followed. It sure needs a little revision, which is bit by bit happening. Our ethnicity and way of life stands apart because of its worthiness and perfection.
This is a shame that the Swine don’t spare even the meek girls, who wear clothes which are decent in all standards! What is to be done?
We really do need to stand out and protest. But slut walks? I would say no. That is not what we need and something that is definitely not going to work out any positive development in the mind sets of the ‘Swine’. Sorry to say, but what I see coming is that it is going to be another piece of entertainment for them. Another munni or Sheila perhaps? The girls and their point is not all wrong but the reactions could be counter productive. Our city is not yet ‘western’ enough to understand the motive of the ‘slut walk’ Oops, as the newly termed ‘Besharmi Morcha’. We don’t yet have that tolerance towards such concepts, the irony will hardly be understood in our society. I would suggest that girls, let us campaign more decently because slut walk is not something that will work in Delhi! Impactful? Maybe. Successful? Maybe! Reasonable? No! What after the slut walk?
No comments:
Post a Comment