Today, as my early morning ritual is, I started reading the newspaper and yet again there was a case of rape reported! The girl who was raped was termed as the "victim" and reading THAT always makes me angry. Why should the girl be tagged that! I feel the girl who lives through this sick nightmare should be called as a SURVIVOR!
We say that we have advanced and grown in all aspects - technology, mindset; but then why are women still looked upon as a piece of meat all over the world! Women are blamed that they "invited" this horrible fate to themselves because of their clothes or because they were roaming around late at night or because they have many male friends, can this mindset get more pathetic!
Even the logic that I fail to understand is, in the judicial system- when a woman is raped there are various levels of brutality and accordingly the punishment is given. But when a boy is raped it is considered as unnatural, and there is a fixed punishment to that. So help me understand- raping a girl is NATURAL and raping a boy is- unnatural! In which weird world is this logic applicable? Certainly not in our world where we call ourselves "human". RAPE is RAPE! Period!
If the clothes were the problem, then why are infants and adolescents raped? Even 2-3-year-old boys/ girls are raped! So, do these people who comment on the "clothes" of women want to say that the toddlers were dressed provocatively to invite that fate on themselves? Or can we seriously grow up and think that the fault lies within the society and within the mindset of the society, the sick mindset of the rapists?
Yes, I think it's the society because, in maximum countries around the globe, the society is patriarchal. We tend to make believe our sons/brothers that they have a higher authority and can get away with ANYTHING. If WE, as a society try and teach our sons in their childhood itself that every woman is to be respected and that a woman is more than just her body, then maybe it will be a small step to start a better society.
Making it mandatory in schools and colleges to teach students self-defense is also another step towards curbing these unfortunate incidences.
I came across this video on YouTube recently and would like to share it with everyone. Sarcasm has been put to good use. Please check it out.
http://youtu.be/8hC0Ng_ajpY
We say that we have advanced and grown in all aspects - technology, mindset; but then why are women still looked upon as a piece of meat all over the world! Women are blamed that they "invited" this horrible fate to themselves because of their clothes or because they were roaming around late at night or because they have many male friends, can this mindset get more pathetic!
Even the logic that I fail to understand is, in the judicial system- when a woman is raped there are various levels of brutality and accordingly the punishment is given. But when a boy is raped it is considered as unnatural, and there is a fixed punishment to that. So help me understand- raping a girl is NATURAL and raping a boy is- unnatural! In which weird world is this logic applicable? Certainly not in our world where we call ourselves "human". RAPE is RAPE! Period!
If the clothes were the problem, then why are infants and adolescents raped? Even 2-3-year-old boys/ girls are raped! So, do these people who comment on the "clothes" of women want to say that the toddlers were dressed provocatively to invite that fate on themselves? Or can we seriously grow up and think that the fault lies within the society and within the mindset of the society, the sick mindset of the rapists?
Yes, I think it's the society because, in maximum countries around the globe, the society is patriarchal. We tend to make believe our sons/brothers that they have a higher authority and can get away with ANYTHING. If WE, as a society try and teach our sons in their childhood itself that every woman is to be respected and that a woman is more than just her body, then maybe it will be a small step to start a better society.
Making it mandatory in schools and colleges to teach students self-defense is also another step towards curbing these unfortunate incidences.
I came across this video on YouTube recently and would like to share it with everyone. Sarcasm has been put to good use. Please check it out.
http://youtu.be/8hC0Ng_ajpY
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