There's no nice way of saying this, so here goes - We're all responsible for the rape of women around us.
Yes. WE men and women and mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters and teachers and relatives and well-wishers. We moral upstanding modern educated citizens of Indian society.
We parents who encourage a girl to like the color pink even in her crib, preferring the boy to like blue. The little girl gets anorexic barbie dolls and the little boys get guns and GI Joes.
We sisters who tie a rakhi on the wrists of our brothers, expecting them to 'protect us'.
We brothers who vow to 'protect' our sisters from all that 'evil' outside.
We mothers who lament when our daughters go out to play without sunscreen, who teach us that its ok for dad to beat us and our children to 'take the edge of their frustration with life'.
We fathers who frown if our daughters wear frocks and skirts.
We teachers & principals who impose 'dress-code' for girls to preserve their 'modesty'.
We, the 'well-wishers', who advice parents on 'how its a bad world out there, not safe anymore'.
We, the relatives, who gossip 'beti badi ho gayi hai, ab shaadi karaa do'.
We women who try so hard to please the men around us that we forget who we are.
We men who try so hard to hide the women in their houses, in their clothes, in their 'modesty' that we forget who they are.
Why is every action, every thought in our sad little worlds led by an unconscious (and sometimes conscious) need to separate men from women? Don't the women know they're different? Come on, we can see our breasts too. That does not mean we can't like blue, is it? Or that we can't see its a dangerous world out there, thanks to people doing their best to keep us apart? Putting us on a pedestal or throwing us in the whorehouse, its all the same because it means you are making us to be someone we're not. We're human. We deserve to be treated no better, and certainly no worse than you. If we're fucked without our consent, give us an iron rod teach us to fuck them back. If we're slapped, teach us to slap 'em back. If we're teased, teach us to tease them back.
Give women the dignity, the respect, the choices, the FREEDOM, that every human being deserves. Maybe then, over time, the rapes will stop.
Yes. WE men and women and mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters and teachers and relatives and well-wishers. We moral upstanding modern educated citizens of Indian society.
We parents who encourage a girl to like the color pink even in her crib, preferring the boy to like blue. The little girl gets anorexic barbie dolls and the little boys get guns and GI Joes.
We sisters who tie a rakhi on the wrists of our brothers, expecting them to 'protect us'.
We brothers who vow to 'protect' our sisters from all that 'evil' outside.
We mothers who lament when our daughters go out to play without sunscreen, who teach us that its ok for dad to beat us and our children to 'take the edge of their frustration with life'.
We fathers who frown if our daughters wear frocks and skirts.
We teachers & principals who impose 'dress-code' for girls to preserve their 'modesty'.
We, the 'well-wishers', who advice parents on 'how its a bad world out there, not safe anymore'.
We, the relatives, who gossip 'beti badi ho gayi hai, ab shaadi karaa do'.
We women who try so hard to please the men around us that we forget who we are.
We men who try so hard to hide the women in their houses, in their clothes, in their 'modesty' that we forget who they are.
Why is every action, every thought in our sad little worlds led by an unconscious (and sometimes conscious) need to separate men from women? Don't the women know they're different? Come on, we can see our breasts too. That does not mean we can't like blue, is it? Or that we can't see its a dangerous world out there, thanks to people doing their best to keep us apart? Putting us on a pedestal or throwing us in the whorehouse, its all the same because it means you are making us to be someone we're not. We're human. We deserve to be treated no better, and certainly no worse than you. If we're fucked without our consent, give us an iron rod teach us to fuck them back. If we're slapped, teach us to slap 'em back. If we're teased, teach us to tease them back.
Give women the dignity, the respect, the choices, the FREEDOM, that every human being deserves. Maybe then, over time, the rapes will stop.
