Why it's always the women?

There is a creature on earth. They call themselves men. They consider themselves the God of this entirely inhuman and insensitive ‘modern-day world’. They enjoy molesting girls publicly, love throwing acid on women, and relish destroying women’s lives. And the reason of doing all these heinous deeds is they are men. They think it gives them the license to commit these acts.

The latest example of their barbaric nature is the Guwahati encounter where more than 30 young men ganged up, barely a kilometer away from the Assam’s State Secretariat, to molest a girl who happened to have visited a pub with some of her friends. The girl was molested for about half an hour, before the police came and rescued her from the mob. A couple of months ago, in Calcutta, a same type of hapless incident had happened where a mother of two was gang-raped when she was on her way back to home with her children from the famous night spot on Park Street.

I shudder, and any human would, to think what happened in Guwahati, or for that reason, what had happened in Calcutta. But frankly speaking, the big concern is what happened after the incident- the responses that came after the brutal incident. The chauvinists openly started speaking out their all-time favorite quotes: what was she doing in the pub, a girl of loose morals only visits pub. Some went further and added, oh the girl certainly would not have well-dressed. Am I supposed to believe that it was the girl who called it upon herself? It was she who wanted it to happen? Disgusting and despicable!

Aren’t we the home of an awful sickness? A group of people molest a sixteen year girl publicly who is the student of class XI, and a group of people watch this cold-hearted act, and then sections of people, instead of condemning the menfolk who committed this heinous deed, come out and start excoriating the behavior of the girl. What is wrong with our society?  Do men wish to see women in their tutelage? Are men the victim of self-righteousness that allows them to distribute the blame on those, they consider, are weaker than them?

The prophecy that these incidents would not have happened, had they been well-dressed or behaved in a different manner, are per se fallacious. What about the certitude of men that they are superior to women, that it is always the fairer sex who is guilty? When would the society accept that it is the fault of those merciless and insensitive men who commit these acts? Frankly speaking, even if the accused are arrested and incarcerated, nothing would improve. They will be sentenced to jail for a year or two. But, is this enough for the girl who would suffer the lifetime of shame and pain?

For the sake of a little humanity that is still alive in this world, don’t pass the buck. Don’t unreasonably object on what your daughters wear. Don’t unnecessarily restrict your daughters from going out in the night. Don’t compel them to feel inferior. Instead, teach your sons the lesson- “don’t indulge in this insensitive, inhuman, gross and callous act”.