Rightly called as the Land of Gods, India is an
abode to various religions, beliefs and customs. We worship various Gods and
Goddesses and few Goddesses have high regard in our society. But still women
residing in this country suffer a lot. We praise a deity of clay, mud and
stones but fail to give importance to our mothers and sisters.
History is evident of the ill-treatment of women and
introduction of literacy and education for all hasn’t much changed the
scenario. They are still considered the
elements of hatred. The condition is worse in the rural areas but the cities
too don’t lag behind. The amount of violence which is bestowed upon women has
been on a rise day by day. Women, even teenagers and minors are constantly
molested and raped. Who should be blamed for this? The whole male community?
Certainly not!
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It’s all basically because of men’s highly egoistic
nature. In a country like us, a man’s ego is greater than a woman’s integrity
and duty. Sad truth! Also, domestic violence is taking toll and is degrading a
woman’s dignity. No section of men have actually come forward to better the
conditions. What they’ve been doing? Just rants!(Exceptions are everywhere, I
can’t blame the whole male community!)
The worst I’ve come across is the logic of Delhi/Gurgaon police,
according to whom, a girl is safe a minute before 8 pm and she is not (safe),
after the clock strikes 8! Now, that’s purely double standards, I must say.
Instead of setting deadlines, isn’t it their responsibility to have a patrol
and ensure safety of the fairer sex? After all, our Indian police!:P
I don’t say I am a feminist. It won’t be right to
call yourself one. If the recent trend is anything to go by, we could see
women/girls involving in undesirable stuff. They do it because they think as
long as you are engaged in all this, you are cool. The sad part is young girls
believe puffing a cigarette, losing one’s virginity has become a trend and
unfortunately, they are the blind followers. And not to forget, we have such
women too who force the other women in the bad business of prostitution. Well,
there are many institutions of society which are responsible for this.
In all, I could say, Feminism has its existence
orally. No one actually practises it. How many of us voice ourselves? Do we
take any step to protect our dignity? All of us, who come home late at night,
why don’t we enrol ourselves in some self-defence classes? That’s the least we
could do. Don’t just blabber rants. Rather, just give a death stare or hit hard
those perverse eyes gawking at you!
