We all tend to think we stay in a
new emerging India, which is improving day by day , advancing day by day but
yet something as basic as your personal dressing choice can bring you to be
seen with skeptical looks .On one hand our current prime minster seems to
acknowledge subjects related to Girl power and very cleverly tend to include
points about girl education and rape cases , what does India need indeed ? In
my personal opinion a Drastic ideological change , while the government and
most of the NGO's seems to be focusing on grass root level , which is right
when it comes to bringing about any change ; but at the same time what about
the Youth of this country , specially the girl population amongst this so
called "youth". Coming back to the basic topic we started from The
Forbidden Indian Experience : Girl"s wearing short clothes . Here in a
country where traditions , values and rituals are given more importance that
the actual human being , there is little left to imagine what category one puts
the girl's who wear 'exposive clothes . As if that is not enough
whenever there is a new rape case one of the oh so typical minister comes out
commenting that it’s the girl’s fault , when a girl wears short clothes , she
is attracting a guy’s attention or in other words provoking him ! Now that is
heights of male chauvinist behavior , i mean what does it suggest a Women gets
raped on purpose? They wear short clothes so that men can undress them with
their thoughts? They party at night so that perverts can take advantage of them?
The problem lies in the mind of the people. Problem lies within the mindsets of men who think that they can have whoever they want. It’ll ruin the girl’s life? Who gives a shit? Some women empowerment group will reach her, buy her a sewing machine and then leave. Then the whole world will remember the girl as a rape-case victim. No other man would marry her. If if he’d want to, his family would never accept the girl fully. (Good luck finding a man in this country who’ll leave his mommy for the girl he loves. I’m not saying they don’t exist, I’m questioning their existence. It’s a different thing.)
Being a girl in this country , let me re frame it being a girl who has an opinion , who has a feminist ideology is a big challenge , today if i m here writing about this topic is because i m amongst those lucky girls who’s family treats the girl child superior if not equal to the male child . And just think of new India wherein all girls get a family like mine , Indian women would reach the height of success , not that they are not right now but a very selective few in the population of 1.21 million. I guess m trying to say is that we need to stop being so skeptical about how or what a girl wears , and if not men then us women need to regard each other with respect and not call a girl a “slut” if she is wearing short clothes. We need to come up with a very basic ideological change in how we look at women in
general.
As long as women are treated as objects of sexual acts, India will always, and I can’t stress enough this always, be a developing country.
The problem lies in the mind of the people. Problem lies within the mindsets of men who think that they can have whoever they want. It’ll ruin the girl’s life? Who gives a shit? Some women empowerment group will reach her, buy her a sewing machine and then leave. Then the whole world will remember the girl as a rape-case victim. No other man would marry her. If if he’d want to, his family would never accept the girl fully. (Good luck finding a man in this country who’ll leave his mommy for the girl he loves. I’m not saying they don’t exist, I’m questioning their existence. It’s a different thing.)
Being a girl in this country , let me re frame it being a girl who has an opinion , who has a feminist ideology is a big challenge , today if i m here writing about this topic is because i m amongst those lucky girls who’s family treats the girl child superior if not equal to the male child . And just think of new India wherein all girls get a family like mine , Indian women would reach the height of success , not that they are not right now but a very selective few in the population of 1.21 million. I guess m trying to say is that we need to stop being so skeptical about how or what a girl wears , and if not men then us women need to regard each other with respect and not call a girl a “slut” if she is wearing short clothes. We need to come up with a very basic ideological change in how we look at women in
general.
As long as women are treated as objects of sexual acts, India will always, and I can’t stress enough this always, be a developing country.
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