5 things I want from India as a woman living here.
1) Stop
getting raped. Like immediately please.
2) To
be able to buy a smoke without having to address the shopkeeper’s eyeballs
which are way outside his sockets. And to be able to smoke it, like the million
guys puffing right next to me. * Not endorsing smoking as a habit in any way.
It is a deadly menace. But if men can read disclaimers, why can’t we? *
3) To
be able to enter TASMAC / liquor shops without any insinuations about my
character thrown at me.
4) To
be able to stand in the road and speak to my male friend without a police
officer shooing us away because it is the ‘night’ time. We can control ourselves
and it is clearly none of his problem either ways. And wear whatever makes me
comfortable.
5) For
people to realize that doing 2 , 3 ,4 is in NO ways related to 1.
I have been observing social media posts
for a while now. While there seemed to be a consensus ‘innocent’ girls should
never be raped , there seems to be an ambiguous grey area when it came to the ‘liberal
feminazis’ who are asking for it. Let me tell you this , NO ONE is asking for
it and wanted to write a blunt and unpretentious post which puts my views as
clearly as possible on this topic.
And for once , I don’t want to debate. I
don’t want to argue with someone on whether the behaviour of a victim was the
cause of a rape or whether a girl ‘can’ smoke or drink like a guy.
THESE ARE FUNDAMENTALS WHICH I THOUGHT GOT
COVERED IN THE ERA OF DRAFTING THE CONSTITUTION. IT FEELS LIKE TRYING TO TALK
ABOUT SLAVERY.
But again that’s the sad state of affairs.
Only times I regret democracy is when we have groups who can espouse such B.S
under the garb of right to speech. But again , Benevolent Dictators are a very rare species.
- A girl who has
boy"bad" habits is not a 'bad girl' - It is not cool to use NAZI on concepts you don't understand . Mass genocide shouldn't be easily made equatable to mundane activities
- NO ONE ( see how I'm gender neutral here) should be raped and there is no 'excuse' for rape ( certainly no your rapist son's promising swimming career)
* when you think some things are basic like A , B , C and you realise most of the populace is dyslexic or just too stubborn to learn*
