I am still processing one thing in my head, the same topic which has unanswerable questions to it, about which everyone has different philosophies different dimensions, and that is RAPE.
In yesterday's psychology class, we were being taught about self-control. My teacher made a statement saying that- "one thing that separates us from animals is, the control we have over ourselves, we don't pounce upon a person who doesn't appeal to us, we keep that disgusted look to ourselves, ignore the person and walk away. Whereas, the dog on the street would jump and dig his canine to anyone who he finds unappealing in any way" This statement made me ponder all night long. Do we?
After the Nirbhaya incident, I THOUGHT ( how foolish I was!) that crime rates in Delhi would subsequently reduce. But then again, I was proved wrong. A yet another, gut-wrenching and heinous crime took place in our Capital. I honestly, don't know how to portray my disgust and anguish over the filthy low-lives that exist in our country. But a child? a baby? an innocent soul? has to be staked to fulfill the hunger of a pedophile. And the punishment he gets is getting hanged? REALLY? so easily? losing his life without a speck of pain, in just 5 minutes after inflicting the unimaginable pain he has given to a girl whose life had just begun. NO WAY! Satans like these should be left on the streets and be butchered by the girls of this nation.
Atrocities everywhere- rapes, domestic violence, assaults, molestation,eve-teasing and a thousand more unthinkable terms are spreading like a wildfire.
And we say we have self-control?
Parents of girl-child shudder to the thought of letting her go after the 'much-dreaded' 7 pm, be it the narrow-minded or the broad ones. It is us, we girls that have to undergo all these humiliations. There a varied theories about ' why these perverts, rape?' Some believe it as some sort of mental illness, some believe it is their way of showing superiority over the fairer-sex. I agree with the latter more. Just a few months ago I read out an incident about a man who has raped 17 women and is leading a happy married life. When questioned, his wife said that she couldn't in her widest dreams ever think her husband, even looking at some other woman.
This just rings one bell, if they know how to differentiate, then why are these rapes committed?
To create dominance, seeing an independent, free-thinking, rule-breaking, society-uplifting woman scares the guts outta them. Living alone, on her own terms, catching the local train, enjoying her liberty, wearing- in what she feels comfortable, gives sadists like these electric shocks. They can't take it. So, to shun our power and a fear that we can outrun them any time of the day THEY give us pain, so that we stop. WE STOP! and they think we will? NO . NEVER.
And this thinking however doesn't only limit to the illiterates but also the 'so-called-educated' ones.
I AM a feminist. And I am proud of it.
I say, why should we? WE WOMEN, WE GIRLS are the creators. Kick the male-chauvinist pigs in the groin and give them that powerpuff-girls mukka. It is our body, we can use it, flaunt it, the way we like. We will be the unstoppable force. We are the ones that have been worshiped by India for centuries as- Lakshmi, Durga and Parvati. Then why the hell should we take it? Protest, scream, yell, write do whatever you can to create ripples. Because it is the country's women whose lives are at stake.
WE are the creators. THE destroyers. THE powerhouses. And it is high time the men on this planet get it.
We will live on our terms. Embrace it or gulp it down it. Your pick!
p.s- Pardon me, if I crossed the line. But the time has come, when a revolution has to break.
Thanks for hearing me out.:)
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