The whole of Twitter has
been outraging about the molestation incident that happened earlier this week
outside a bar in Guwahati. The girl was molested by 20+guys after she
confronted them when they abused her inside the bar. It has pained me and it
still is that we mistreat women thus!
This made me wonder about
how much we actually respect women in our country. Do we really appreciate her
contribution in our lives, to our society and our country? What makes us from appreciating
them? Who is responsible for this? Where does one go to search for these
answers?
Ours is primarily a
patriarchal society where the man is the all powerful gender and the woman is
expected to be submissive & always listen to him. This has been the case
for centuries and, honestly, not something that we should be proud of. Why?
Because we are a society where majority of us believe in woman to be a goddess.
We pray to our goddesses and believe they are our saviors in most times. So,
despite this why do we still continue to be sexists or misogynists?
Why do men in India find
it difficult to accept that women are as good and capable as themselves? Women
deserve as much freedom to do things as every man does. She deserves the
respect that every man does. Why do men disrespect her by physically abusing
her?
Can’t we respect and revere
a woman when she manages to do so many things and yet be strong? Can’t we
accept that women can be independent too and love them for that? Can’t we
celebrate a woman like we do our own mother, sister, wife & daughter?
We would turn a great
country only when we realise and respect women. Till the time we continue to ill-treat
our women by physically and mentally torturing them, we would continue to be
this third-rate country which doesn’t know to how to respect its women.
No, I am not a feminist! I
am just someone who loves to treat everyone equally and not discriminate based
on gender/caste/creed. I hope I live long enough to see my country change into
something I am wishing for.
2 comments:
Good piece Kapil!! Keep writing :)
Respect is an abstract term. This can neither be forced onto someone nor enforced legally. Similarly weakness and courage is the state of mind and not the body. Respect and weakness can never co-exist. For women, weakness is their biggest challenge which is bringing disrespect to them. Finally to say, women have to overcome this challenge and bring in respect for themselves.
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