I still remember the times when I was a school girl, traveling alone in public transports, walking back home frustrated almost every single day. Reason? Ashamed of the fact that my body has to go past those lecherous men on the bus, in some crowded streets who though it was alright to grope me, touch me and feel me before disappearing in the crowd! Sometimes you won't know what to do! Should you react? Should you slap him? What if he comes back with more men and takes revenge?
Not just me who feels this way. I've seen many other girls and older women being looked upon as a piece of meat. It didn't matter how old we were, how we looked, or what clothes we wore. We were just purely a piece of meat in the eyes of those men, waiting to crush our every single ounce of courage, independence and free spirit. Oh come on ! You are just a woman. No, you can work beyond 6. No you can't hang out late in the nights even with your sibling or friends. Why? It's a male dominated world. "What if someone did something? " I mean, why don't people instead bring up their sons saying how to be a gentleman, how to treat a woman and respect her instead??
Is it wrong on our parts to ask to be treated equally ? Is it wrong to believe, even we have a career to think of which may involve late nigh work? Even in the movies, women wearing the most skimpiest of clothes are considered to be sluts or the vamp who gets all the wrong attention while the ones dressed all traditionally are the ones who never get attention from the wrong men? The way women portrayed these days are just simply misguiding! No, I don't blame all men but even men know how other men in general think. You can't deny that fact guys! A rape should be treated as equal as a cold blooded murder. There should be a capital punishment and those men should be butchered without any sympathy, like the same piece of meat that they think we look like!
Not just me who feels this way. I've seen many other girls and older women being looked upon as a piece of meat. It didn't matter how old we were, how we looked, or what clothes we wore. We were just purely a piece of meat in the eyes of those men, waiting to crush our every single ounce of courage, independence and free spirit. Oh come on ! You are just a woman. No, you can work beyond 6. No you can't hang out late in the nights even with your sibling or friends. Why? It's a male dominated world. "What if someone did something? " I mean, why don't people instead bring up their sons saying how to be a gentleman, how to treat a woman and respect her instead??
Is it wrong on our parts to ask to be treated equally ? Is it wrong to believe, even we have a career to think of which may involve late nigh work? Even in the movies, women wearing the most skimpiest of clothes are considered to be sluts or the vamp who gets all the wrong attention while the ones dressed all traditionally are the ones who never get attention from the wrong men? The way women portrayed these days are just simply misguiding! No, I don't blame all men but even men know how other men in general think. You can't deny that fact guys! A rape should be treated as equal as a cold blooded murder. There should be a capital punishment and those men should be butchered without any sympathy, like the same piece of meat that they think we look like!
Today, after seeing all the stupid talks, debates and arguments on rape and eve teasing cases, I take an anti-rape stance that I will do everything possible, as a powerless piece of meat, talk to anyone who can help to enforce stricter and quicker laws for women to feel safe in our country. If not for the 23 year old girl in Delhi, fighting for her life, or the thousands of other women being assaulted and abused every single day across our nation, do it for yourself. Do it for every single woman/girl you care about. We all think it wont happen to any of us, unless one fine day we find ourselves helplessly admits of that situation not knowing what to do.
Even after all this, I still want to have a girl child, bring her up in a way to defend herself, stand for what is right and what needs to be changed!
