Welcome 2008 and what is the first news item greeting us? - Rape of 2 women in the country's safest city for women. Splendid beginning, what say? The media persons are on a roll about it and cant seem to get enough. Who can blame them, they need their bread too. Okay. So another disaster to the womenfolk. Another indication of ironical regression of a sense of security to a woman in a world thats supposed to be developing at a dizzying pace. And you have the usual mindless comments from political bigwigs - What were they doing at that time of the night outside the safe precincts of their homes? - Why were they dressed the way they were? - Why were they drinking? - Couldn't they help themselves out? - Couldn't they scream out for help?
One. If a woman has no security on the roads of her own country at an hour when celebrations are going on, I don't see the logic behind her being secure amidst four walls. If people can get away with saying this now, there WILL come a day when they'll say four walls are not sufficient. A Woman needs to be safely stashed away in an iron locker. Are we to be caged for the lack of moral strain in a increasingly male dominated society? Is celebration at a midnight hour when the whole world is celebration not for a Woman because she is a woman?
Two. What the ruddy hell of a difference does a dress make? We have all heard of assaults on women all through, irrespective of the dresses they sported - be it a salwar, saree, burqa, jeans or skirts. A woman, no matter what she wears, is just that, a WOMAN, an object of carnal infliction for an imbalanced male mind.
Three. We talk increasingly of a changing and developing world. Of being a Cosmopolitan society. Of changes and developments happening at every blink. We, being a part of that globalisation, owing to our multi cultural and secular composition, have varied reactions to this globalisation. We are a set of people with different and vastly differing opinions, on all of what is happening in and around us. So how on earth can people imagine a thunderingly singular opinion on ways of chilling out, excuse the juvenile expression, relaxing? Drinking is to some as a cola would be to others. To each his own. Who are you to sit on judgment?
Forget the whole idea of it being a woman at the victim's end, for a minute. Imagine a guy, stranded in a lonely bus stop at an ungodly hour, after say, a day's work, and waiting to get back home. He's spotted by a band of, say 10 odd men, hooligans, if I may say so, who see an opportunity of looting the guy, without much resistance from him. And so they make their move. Unless this was a scene from a typical bollywood or telugu movie, I see no bloody way, the guy would be able to help himself out of this, even if he ran for all he was worth. The chances are slim. Then HOW on earth should a woman, scientifically proven to be physically, relatively less endowed, when pitched against "70" odd men, help herself? She should do a Michelle Yeoh, I suppose? Though I can't really imagine how that'll help, unless perhaps coupled with a PT.Usha.
I don't believe this. Two women are molested. In public. On a day of Universal revelry and celebration. No sympathies are extended to their states of mind. The degrading moral fiber of the society is not introspected upon. The people responsible for this have not all been brought under focus. And here we are, trying to defend our stance, for being women and for our dresses??!! GOD SAVE THIS DEMOCRATIC, SECULAR, DEVELOPING COUNTRY.
One. If a woman has no security on the roads of her own country at an hour when celebrations are going on, I don't see the logic behind her being secure amidst four walls. If people can get away with saying this now, there WILL come a day when they'll say four walls are not sufficient. A Woman needs to be safely stashed away in an iron locker. Are we to be caged for the lack of moral strain in a increasingly male dominated society? Is celebration at a midnight hour when the whole world is celebration not for a Woman because she is a woman?
Two. What the ruddy hell of a difference does a dress make? We have all heard of assaults on women all through, irrespective of the dresses they sported - be it a salwar, saree, burqa, jeans or skirts. A woman, no matter what she wears, is just that, a WOMAN, an object of carnal infliction for an imbalanced male mind.
Three. We talk increasingly of a changing and developing world. Of being a Cosmopolitan society. Of changes and developments happening at every blink. We, being a part of that globalisation, owing to our multi cultural and secular composition, have varied reactions to this globalisation. We are a set of people with different and vastly differing opinions, on all of what is happening in and around us. So how on earth can people imagine a thunderingly singular opinion on ways of chilling out, excuse the juvenile expression, relaxing? Drinking is to some as a cola would be to others. To each his own. Who are you to sit on judgment?
Forget the whole idea of it being a woman at the victim's end, for a minute. Imagine a guy, stranded in a lonely bus stop at an ungodly hour, after say, a day's work, and waiting to get back home. He's spotted by a band of, say 10 odd men, hooligans, if I may say so, who see an opportunity of looting the guy, without much resistance from him. And so they make their move. Unless this was a scene from a typical bollywood or telugu movie, I see no bloody way, the guy would be able to help himself out of this, even if he ran for all he was worth. The chances are slim. Then HOW on earth should a woman, scientifically proven to be physically, relatively less endowed, when pitched against "70" odd men, help herself? She should do a Michelle Yeoh, I suppose? Though I can't really imagine how that'll help, unless perhaps coupled with a PT.Usha.
I don't believe this. Two women are molested. In public. On a day of Universal revelry and celebration. No sympathies are extended to their states of mind. The degrading moral fiber of the society is not introspected upon. The people responsible for this have not all been brought under focus. And here we are, trying to defend our stance, for being women and for our dresses??!! GOD SAVE THIS DEMOCRATIC, SECULAR, DEVELOPING COUNTRY.
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