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Monday 22 April 2013

An Independent Woman!

It doesn't matter if we have castration or capital punishment for rapists in the country. We need to stop sounding like we are not complicit in promoting an unsafe environment for girls, for women. Don't sit and watch Akshay Kumar pinch Sonakshi Sinha's waist in Rowdy Rathore and laugh about it like a crazy moron.  Don't listen to Honey Singh sing shit about women. Don't objectify women! Dont whisper to your friends about how "easy" so and so girl is because she has sex casually and frequently. Don't tell women in your life that the dress isnt appropriate, that she shouldn't be out after six in the evening, that she should be careful about the guys that she is friends with. Dont ask her WHY she was there with THAT person. Dont question her. Don't make and laugh at rape jokes, at jokes where women are doing nothing but making sandwiches for men, jokes that glorify physical violence.

Rapes don't happen in abstract places, to people without faces, by people who are any different from us. We are the reason rapes happen again and again. Stop accusing feminists for over reacting, because they aren't. You are not reacting properly. Today you posted a few lines about the rape case and changed your display picture to the black dot of shame only because it was the news flash of the week. But what next? 
And frankly, if you cant take a stand all the time, dont pretend to give a shit when women face such things. Only ones who have been through this know how it feels. Its nothing new. It happens, very frequently!
Some cases come into your notice because as they say, everyone has a story to tell, some whisper while some yell.

Ours is the kind of capital city where women cant even imagine about stepping out of the house alone after dark. What kind of a society have we become that we cant protect our women?

I, as a girl, cant even imagine about being at the receiving end of such an animalistic act and based on what? My gender?! Yes, that is bloody legitimate!

What infuriates me the most is how the society is so quick to judge the victim. She was out with the wrong people, wrong clothes and what not. Men murdered in the same circumstances never ever have to bear with the judgmental society. So really if you cant take a stand, if you dont care, then keep your chauvinistic judgmental asses to yourselves. How am i supposed to believe that I live in a society where every member is supposedly a variant of the human species and not some unevolved for of the violent most animal that the history of the planet has ever seen?

Almost 80% of us, by that I mean women and girls, can confess having been in one of those excrutiatingly helpless situations where we had no where to go to, where death seemes a simpler and more obvious choice. Some of us got lucky, some didnt. It doesnt matter what you are wearing, who you are with. You are an individual and you are strong, ladies, dont worry!

Amongst all the things whose prices have skyrocketed in the reign of this "fuck-all-carnical-of-morons" that we call the Indian Government, a womens dignity remains to b ethe costliest.

I am in no way saying that the govt is to blame, but i am saying that they are not taking strict actions. I am not here to comment upon people or change you, but I just hope i can ring a bell somewhere in your minds that forces you to improve yourself as individuals and work better upon your sons. 

Think about it, YOU can be the change that you want to see.


2 comments:

  1. Well said, Im quite impressed with your ability over writing such a big article. WIsh you more success

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