Are we civilized human beings?
This is one question I had been asking myself ever since I read about the rape of the Physiotherapist in Munirka.
That rape in itself is a horrific crime and on that the brutality met out to the girl has been too hard to gulp. It is like a tight slap on our face who claim to be living in a civilized society. Society is made of people like us and also includes those guys who committed this horrific crime. I think it is high time we restore the balance and make our country a safe place to live for women. It is high time we do something, anything.
A day after the incident I happened to go to a shop to buy something when the shopkeeper started to speak about this incident and pinned the entire guilt on the girl. According to him the girl should not have ventured out like this at night and she wanted to have this so she got it. I got so infuriated that I blasted him back by saying that it is this mentality like his' that these incidents are happening.
Why should a girl not venture out at night? Why should she not wear what she wants to? We teach our daughters and sisters to dress up properly; but do we teach our boys not to RAPE girls? Do we teach our boys to have respect for GIRLS? No. I suppose not.
I believe that a girl has all the right to venture out even at 2:00 at night and dressed whatever she feels like and no one ABSOLUTELY NO GUY has the right to even touch her let alone do anything else.
If this cannot be taught easily, this should be done the tough way. Sometimes violence becomes the only way to end violence as America did by dropping atomic bombs on Japan. And I think something can be done now.
As a reader what do you think should be done?
1. The criminals, not only these ones but every rapist, and molester should be castrated in full public view and then they should be allowed to live with the sign of what they did. This would be worse than death as death would be an easy way out.
2. Children, specially boys, from early life should be sensitized about these horrific crimes and what that can lead to. Sometimes fear is a good deterrent.
3. Our police should be sensitized too to handle even the minorest of issues carefully and positively.
4. Our society needs to be sensitized and taught that a girl has all the right to be what she is and live the life her way. A boy comes late and he was working hard.... a girl comes late and her character is questioned..... such stupid mentality has to be cleared .....
Probably we will be able to make our society better for our offsprings....
My prayers and wishes are with the girl who is fighting for her life ......
This is one question I had been asking myself ever since I read about the rape of the Physiotherapist in Munirka.
That rape in itself is a horrific crime and on that the brutality met out to the girl has been too hard to gulp. It is like a tight slap on our face who claim to be living in a civilized society. Society is made of people like us and also includes those guys who committed this horrific crime. I think it is high time we restore the balance and make our country a safe place to live for women. It is high time we do something, anything.
A day after the incident I happened to go to a shop to buy something when the shopkeeper started to speak about this incident and pinned the entire guilt on the girl. According to him the girl should not have ventured out like this at night and she wanted to have this so she got it. I got so infuriated that I blasted him back by saying that it is this mentality like his' that these incidents are happening.
Why should a girl not venture out at night? Why should she not wear what she wants to? We teach our daughters and sisters to dress up properly; but do we teach our boys not to RAPE girls? Do we teach our boys to have respect for GIRLS? No. I suppose not.
I believe that a girl has all the right to venture out even at 2:00 at night and dressed whatever she feels like and no one ABSOLUTELY NO GUY has the right to even touch her let alone do anything else.
If this cannot be taught easily, this should be done the tough way. Sometimes violence becomes the only way to end violence as America did by dropping atomic bombs on Japan. And I think something can be done now.
As a reader what do you think should be done?
1. The criminals, not only these ones but every rapist, and molester should be castrated in full public view and then they should be allowed to live with the sign of what they did. This would be worse than death as death would be an easy way out.
2. Children, specially boys, from early life should be sensitized about these horrific crimes and what that can lead to. Sometimes fear is a good deterrent.
3. Our police should be sensitized too to handle even the minorest of issues carefully and positively.
4. Our society needs to be sensitized and taught that a girl has all the right to be what she is and live the life her way. A boy comes late and he was working hard.... a girl comes late and her character is questioned..... such stupid mentality has to be cleared .....
Probably we will be able to make our society better for our offsprings....
My prayers and wishes are with the girl who is fighting for her life ......
