Can you please keep those hands off me!!! A college going girl shouted on top of her voice and that too in a crowded bus! Well, don’t take her for wrong, she was no lunatic! She was just trying to tell a man just double her age to at least behave himself if he couldn’t respect her self-respect. The person on target was an 'uncle' who amusingly decided to satisfy his strange pangs by feasting on her. On hearing her, people around started giving strange looks to the uncle and some aunties even said meanful things. But, I was left thinking…does this incident just ends here? Doesn't this tiny miny incident actually brings forward the ugly face of our so-called well-behaved, chivalrous society? We all talk of getting Women on the front view! TV talk shows demonstrate leaders, professionals from all fronts debating furiously about ways to liberate the womenfolk from shackles of housework and get an identity for themselves….but are we actually ready for this change? Are we really ready to give space to women when they try to spread their wings in the endless sky of opportunities? Eve-teasing, acid attacks, MMs scams…just to name a few crimes against women…we all condemn these but when a Guwahati molestation case happens….half of us very nicely put the blame on the girl for provocating the men in some manner…when the murder and rape case of pallavi (the young lawyer) becomes media headlines…..half of us decide to gossip about the living-in relationship of the girl in question. When even after so many years….Aarushi murder case reveals its ugly face on out TV screens….we actually batter the 14-year old girls' reputation again and again…..shame! Hypocrites are we! Being a mother of a girl….I actually need to ask the society…is it really a crime to be born a girl?
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
society...some questions for you
Can you please keep those hands off me!!! A college going girl shouted on top of her voice and that too in a crowded bus! Well, don’t take her for wrong, she was no lunatic! She was just trying to tell a man just double her age to at least behave himself if he couldn’t respect her self-respect. The person on target was an 'uncle' who amusingly decided to satisfy his strange pangs by feasting on her. On hearing her, people around started giving strange looks to the uncle and some aunties even said meanful things. But, I was left thinking…does this incident just ends here? Doesn't this tiny miny incident actually brings forward the ugly face of our so-called well-behaved, chivalrous society? We all talk of getting Women on the front view! TV talk shows demonstrate leaders, professionals from all fronts debating furiously about ways to liberate the womenfolk from shackles of housework and get an identity for themselves….but are we actually ready for this change? Are we really ready to give space to women when they try to spread their wings in the endless sky of opportunities? Eve-teasing, acid attacks, MMs scams…just to name a few crimes against women…we all condemn these but when a Guwahati molestation case happens….half of us very nicely put the blame on the girl for provocating the men in some manner…when the murder and rape case of pallavi (the young lawyer) becomes media headlines…..half of us decide to gossip about the living-in relationship of the girl in question. When even after so many years….Aarushi murder case reveals its ugly face on out TV screens….we actually batter the 14-year old girls' reputation again and again…..shame! Hypocrites are we! Being a mother of a girl….I actually need to ask the society…is it really a crime to be born a girl?
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