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Wednesday 19 December 2012

INCREDIBLE INDIA! REALLY?

RAPE. MOLESTS. ACID ATTACKS. EXPLICIT COMMENTS. UNHEALTHY TOUCHES. STARES. ASSAULTS.

The slightest thought of it shakes the soul of every women. Trust me, you can never understand what a woman goes through during that incident and after that. Rape is more mental than physical. It leaves a scar on the very soul of a woman who goes through it.
21 years and everyday when I step out of the house, I have to keep reassuring my parents that I am SAFE. I AM OKAY. I have to listen to all the sick statements made by all kinds of men around me. 
And so that I dont get acid attacks, I am told to IGNORE whatever is heard by me.

WHY?
All these years , I have been scared, because I AM A WOMAN. 
Every Woman is SCARED , because SHE'S A WOMAN. Is it a sin?
Be it a village , a small town, a metropolitan , RAPES and these incidents happen everywhere.
The ones who say, How a woman dresses increases or decreases her chances of getting raped , Answer one simple questions, WHY WOMEN IN VILLAGE ARE RAPED?
The ones who say illiteracy is the CAUSE, that means, Inspector General of Police, SPS RATHORE WAS AN UNEDUCATED, ILLITERATE MAN.
Rapists are Poor. Rape crosses all class lines.  People have been raped by doctors, lawyers, police
officers, and other authority figures.  Because of their social and financial positions, these
offenders are seldom prosecuted for the acts of violence, and their actions are seldom
publicized.
RAPISTS CAUSE RAPE. PERIOD.

Sexual assault is provoked by the victim.  Victims ask for it by their actions,
behaviors, or by the way they dress. The answer is :To say that someone wants to be raped is the same as saying that people ask to be mugged or robbed.  In fact, most rapes are at least partially planned in advance and the victim is often threatened with death or bodily harm if she resists.Sexual assault is not a spontaneous crime of sexual passion.  It is a violent attack on an individual using
sex as a weapon.Sex is used to defile, degrade and destroy a victim’s will and control over her own body.  For the victim, it is a humiliating, near death situation. No person would ask for or deserve such an attack


RAPE IS DONE BY ORDINARY MALE, THEY ARE ALL AROUND YOU, YOU CANNOT SPOT ONE IN THE CROWD, ITS NOT THAT THEY ARE RICH, POOR, EDUCATED, UNEDUCATED. THEY ARE SICK, VERY SICK.

The ubiquitous, unashamed leering on the streets, the attempt of men to just touch you while you travel in a local bus,  or when you are standing in a queue, the various men who follow you in cycles , motorcycles yelling obscenities . The constant vigilance required each time we take an auto, to be sure he was taking the right route. The fear of lecherous policemen on the lookout for young girls out late at night with male friends. The incidents when females tried to protect themselves , they end up in a worse state, they are raped, acid thrown, and are killed or left in a state worse than death. 

Men flaunt their power of gender and abuse it because they can. Just like that politician who will have someone sacked or beaten up if he dares to offend. The rich guy who will mow a passerby down and drive on by.
Take a culture of violence and hierarchy, add the modern Indian woman, newly at large on the streets, on her way to work, college, or a date. The result is horrific sexual assault. 
Women in big cities are an easier target , because they have stepped out of the four walls of the home.But women are not even safe in those four walls.
The studies show that majority of sexual assaults happen either at the victim's or the offender's place.

Every parent of a girl is scared to send her out to do the smallest of things, I have seen girls who are meant for the best of institutions but because of everyday incidences of female molestation and rape are forced by scared parents to drop out of studies, or to study in some institute which is closer to the house. 

It may be comforting to think that the Delhi is the MOST UNSAFE, But the reality as The Hindu says, is that Delhi’s reputation as India’s “rape capital” may be misleading: “There are plenty of other places in India with a higher incidence of reported rape, in population adjusted terms — and Delhi’s record on convicting perpetrators is far higher than the national average.

A Hindustan Times survey conducted with NGO Akshara last year revealed that 95 percent of women in Mumbai — the bastion of cosmopolitanism — have been sexually harassed, and the conviction rate in rape cases in the city is a paltry 7 percent.

Girls of 3  months have been raped too, and so have women of age 40 plus. They are rapes in villages, in every part of the country. Be it DELHI, MUMBAI, CALCUTTA or small villages , or small cities. ITS NOT THE CITY which CAUSES RAPE, but the MEN who are their. 


The people who rape women are men. Unless men stop raping women, it won’t stop.
Therefore, if at all things have to change, they have to be with men. Teach them first. Teach them that they need to learn that women are no objects, they are HUMANS, and are made to be respected not OBJECTIFIED . Teach them that SEX is no WRONG, but doing that without a WOMAN'S permission is a heinous crime. More than the desire or testosterone, it is the cultural ideas or social norms that they they have grown up with, which drive them. Our culture should ask them to stop. Or we have to change our culture.
Stop laughing when you see 10 men singing watching a girl in a song in a movie, STOP OBJECTIFICATION OF WOMEN. SHE IS NOT AN OBJECT TO FULFILL YOUR LUST. SHE'S THE ONE WHERE YOU CAME FROM. 
There was a case of a 17-year-old girl raped by her father, stepfather and several others over the last one year in Kerala. In another incident again in Kerala, a six-year-old girl was allegedly sexually abused by her 40-year-old father for six months after forcing her to drink alcohol.
There is NO SPECIAL CATEGORY THEY BELONG TO. KNOW THIS. THEY CAN BE RIGHT BESIDE YOU.
WHAT IS THE SOLUTION?
Life Imprisonment : WHY NOT? Because that angry man when leaves the jail , would probably teach his progeny how to rape ! You spend on him and he's staying safe in those walls. Nothing would change. HE'S MENTALLY SICK AND 14 YEARS OR MORE WONT CHANGE THAT.
Capital Punishment : RAREST OF RARE CASES. It is saddening but I still fail to understand what is RAREST OF THE RARE CASE? Wasn't the Aruna Shaunbaug Case Rarest of rare? 
Are women everyday raped and sodomized and then strangulated by a chain? ITS HIGH TIME TO REALISE. EVERY RAPE IS RAREST OF RARE. Its worse than being shot by a gun. Its the effect it has on a WOMAN who is the victim of that. By hanging them you kill them in one go, How can you forget the woman who was raped, was tortured every second, when she was being raped, and later when she's asked all the HUMILIATING questions, which question her dignity. She tries to end her life. Sometimes she's left in a state where she's just lying like a dead body. If she's been raped by some rich brat, her family is tortured, killed. 
In result to this, how can you just give capital punishment or life imprisonment?
Its TIME FOR DETERRENT MEASURES. THE MEN WHO HAVE THE AUDACITY TO TOUCH A GIRL PASSING BY , NEED TO KNOW WHAT CAN BE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS. Castration is against ARTICLE 21 and DOESNT ARTICLE 21 GIVE US , WOMEN THE RIGHT TO SAFE LIFE? 
THE RIGHT TO FREELY GO OUT WITHOUT HAVING THE THOUGHT OF BEING LECHED BY A RANDOM MAN. THE RIGHT TO HER BODY.  THE RIGHT TO LIVE FREELY WITHOUT TAKING PRECAUTIONS?
DETERRENT MEASURES SO THAT THE NEXT TIME WHEN ANOTHER MAN EYES A WOMAN, HE IS HAS THIS THOUGHT IN THE BACK OF HIS MIND THAT HE'LL GO THROUGH VERSE. DETERRENT MEASURES BECAUSE DECADES HAVE PASSED AND REFORMATIVE MEASURES HAVEN'T GOT THE NUMBER DONE.
DETERRENT MEASURES BECAUSE, THEN THE RAPIST WOULD KNOW, THE AGONY, THE PAIN, WHAT A WOMAN GOES THROUGH.
QUICKER TRIALS , IMPRISONMENT HAVEN'T HELPED. AND WONT. THE SOLUTION HAS TO BE SOMETHING WHICH BRINGS A CHANGE.
WOMEN HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE CAREFREE . WOMEN HAVE A RIGHT OVER THEIR BODIES.WOMEN HAVE A RIGHT TO  BE RESPECTED. WOMEN ARE HUMANS NOT OBJECTS. REALISE THAT. TEACH YOUR SONS THAT.  STOP THE PERSON WHEN YOU SEE HIM DOING THAT. HELP A WOMEN. BE THE SAVIORS. REMEMBER THE GIRL WHOSE BEING LECHED CAN BE YOUR MOTHER OR SISTER OR DAUGHTER OR WIFE TOO.
APPLY WHAT YOU SPEAK. APPLY WHAT YOU THINK . DONT JUST SPEAK. ACT

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