I will
skip to the part which puts the entire humanity to shame and makes seasoned
terrorists look like saints. Six people – the driver and his five friends beat
up the guy. When the girl tries to defend him, they beat her mercilessly, rape her
one by one for hours and finish their abominable act by
assaulting the poor girl’s private parts with an iron rod, leaving her ribs
broken and her intestine so badly damaged that the doctors have had to cut it
out as it had turned gangrenous.
I ask all the men, What have the
womenfolk done to deserve such atrocities all over the world at our hands? Why are we so
unfair to half of the humankind? When and how did they wrong us? What right do
we have to subjugate and punish them for our mental sickness and false
chauvinism? “How zealous are we in punishing and killing those who disrespect
our God or country. How shameless are we when we shoot a 15-year-old for wanting to
study or rape a
23-year-old who is studying miles away from home, in hope that someday, she can
support her old parents and finance her brother’s education.
It’s not Islam or Hinduism, but the entire womenfolk that
is in danger. They care for us; they listen to our rants, bear our kids, and
even earn their own bread to ease our financial burden.
And what do we offer them in return? We decide what they
should wear, who they should talk to, in fact, whom they should vote for!
One of the biggest
failures of the modern society is its inability in making the world a safer
place for women folk. Rapes, mole stations harassment at home and work know no territorial or cultural
boundaries. While the guilty of such crimes should be handed out the severest
punishment, let’s not evade the bigger question – ‘why have women been so marginalized and exploited and what should be done to change the mentality of
men?’
I find myself incapable of a perfect answer to this
question. I feel there is no single perfect answer. Therefore, I turn to you, I
turn to us. Together, can we find the reason? Can we find the answers?
