Its on every TV channel,every newspaper , Social media and on everyone's minds. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has been victim to revulsion, rage and hatred each time the pictures of those molesters from Guwahati are shown. We have not only hit rock bottom-but have started digging deeper.A mob of more than 30 men manhandling and molesting a teen.
I've always wondered why crimes against women happen.Now that I'm studying something that entails me to thoroughly read a newspaper, not a day goes by where there isn't a mention of rape or molestation that women are subject to. Sad to see that we've been reduced to a nation of sexually frustrated souls who have to take it out on any walking being who has a semblance of female genitalia.
Leering, leching, cat calls and the likes have become so a part of our lives that I'm sure most of the female population would agree with me when I say that at some level, we've all become de-sensitized to it. A fellow classmate and me, the other day, were walking near our college and were subject to some graphic cat-calls from a bunch of school boys, much younger than us. All we could do was laugh about it and brush it off. Though I like to replay the situation in my head with me using my non-existent knowledge of karate and throwing some kicks and punches.Are men so deprived that they have to come and lech at women at 7 IN THE MORNING at bus stops or ogle at them taking a walk in the park?
The more I look at the endless debates on these channels and the endless visuals,I'm just sad at my, rather our inability to to do something about it.While most of the nation seems to be shouting hoarse and pledging their support to the victim and voicing their fury, the other half deems it right to sit back and comment on how the girl shouldn't have been in a bar and how she shouldn't having been wearing shorts and so on.
Before you so called conservative , orthodox beings draw up plans on the best way to bring up girls, teach your sons to respect them. Added classes on how to fight the urge of sexual frustration should be of great help too.
