Women's Day? Huh!
This is an era of celebrating days. Shedding off major chunk our responsibility towards certain endangered but important practices by celebrating a day or a week. Or may be commemorating something exactly opposite that has a social death.
So how does one go on celebrating a women's day:
1) Fighting for women emancipation on atleast that day?
2) Respecting women a little more that day?
3) Respecting women atleast on that day?
4) Pledge not to look at ongoing women's bodies on roads?
5) Pledging not to hit women in busy markets and streets?
6) Pledging not to molest girls in lonely places?
7) Pledging not to stare and stalk college going girls till they feel completely harassed?
8) Pledging not to kill a girl foetus?
9) Pledging not to rape a girl and not to ruin her life atleast on that day?
I think these rapes and molestations and female foeticide will go so common in future that govt. will have to announce:
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'Molestation free days'
-'Rape free weeks'
-'Special season's bonus to "non-rapists"
-'Financial help to families with two or more girl children alive
What have we become? Animals?
And
For those not 'confined to home after dark', those working late, those working in isolation, those walking on roads, those travelling in public transport, one can really see in their eyes :
-the terror of being followed, always alerted state, fear of encountering some bad guy, fear of strangers and of something unknown, an incident ruining a day or two, broken life after the heinous act . . .
And what can we do, just feel ashamed!
May be
May be all that becomes a habit for them, habit of being ridiculed, may be they get used to those one-liners and acts they experience everyday, everywhere. Don't know, never dared to ask anyone, have you?
Contribution post by: Varun Sayal @vsa2
Nice post Varun, yes these special days are christened to spread awareness but the question is how far the message is reached? We have to concentrate on bringing solution to this issue. The cruelty against women in many developed countries is much less than compared to developing countries. We have to learn from them and analyse the factors that are responsible for more awareness in those countries.
ReplyDeleteVery correct Anto, and the point which I have not touched upon in this post is that sometimes women are equally responsible for crime against other women, which is more despicable. Another point worth nothing is that many crime against women and children are committed by the people close to them, people who are supposed to be trusted, when those people only turn the devil, poor victim has no place to go, but to suffer in silence. Anyhow, thanks for commenting and expressing your views.
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