Why is that every time a girl baby is born , I feel sad and my heart sinks ? Why is that even though I want to be a mother to a girl, my heart says, “I hope I don’t give birth to a girl child”. Why is that when I see a Girl child , I feel the need to protect her? Why ? Why am I afraid for them and why is it that I don’t want them to be born into this world.
When my sister gave birth to a girl child and when my brother had his girl baby and every time anyone has a girl child my first reaction is “SHIT”. I know some people might think that its sexist of me or its highly inapt. But the real me thinks differently.
I think that if a world cannot offer a girl the kind of space and the kind of respect which any human deserves, then why bring her into this world.
Don’t mistake me , I am against female infanticide. But I am sad that that girl will have to face so much misery , sadness, anger, anxiety and fear only becoz she is a GIRL.
Every girl knows this, that if she is out on the street, she will be stared at. If she is riding a bus, she could be sexually harassed, if she is riding a train, she could be raped, if she is late and alone, she could be raped, if she is fighting a fight, she could be raped. Why is that MEN in our society feel a need to harass Women ? Why?
Why does every girl has to go through all this ? Why ? Is she being punished to the crime of being born in the female body. Is that a Valid crime ? Is this really a crime ?
If not , then why is she being punished ?
Someone please answer me , becoz I remember reading somewhere that during vedic times, women were not treated like this. What happened ? What changed and Why ?
I don’t want to feel sad for girls anymore. I want an answer to the above question so that we can provide the solution to the underlying problem.
If all this is becoz men need to satisfy their physical requirements, then the solution is “Legal Prostitution”.
In my opinion , Rapists are not criminals, because you can treat criminals and there is hope for criminals to get better, but there is no hope for Rapists. Capital Punishment is not an answer for this. Because when they die, they learn nothing and they did not feel or even experienced a part of what the women went through.
The answer to this is – Physical torture performed by the victim of the rape on the convict in public.
The humiliation, with which the girl has to live everyday , the pain of being trapped in a body that was used against her will and the mental trauma which the girl endures and fights and lives with, everyday, for the rest of her life. The scar made, not on her body, but on her soul, remains till her death. No man can understand this but may be , just may be , the girl can find some closure , if she gets to torture the man who raped her in public.
And then, may be, just may be , I will not feel sad when a girl child is born.
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