Acclaimed to be bold, a male
friend of mine wrote this line somewhere. It said “If real men don’t rape,real women don’t expose’’. I
got numb thinking that, how shameful this line was to be written by a boy who is living in 21st century. Not only it contradicted the
relationship of exposure and molestation,it pumped uncountable
questions in my veins, it boiled my female blood and pinched my humanism.Did he mean that a girl
wherever found with a part of her body exposed should be raped? Did he mean that a naked woman is not a
woman but a thing which should be molested wherever it’s seen? Did he mean that he’ll rape me one
day if he sees a part of me? It is insane to feel righteous of having a command over a naked female
body or to relate any exposure with the series of rapes continuing today, ignoring the fact that not
only those who expose and not only those who hide but, every one in ten who bear double X chromosomes is
being raped. Why fake this? For those who say girls get raped only because they expose, why
don’t you think about a5 year old girl child getting raped every day everywhere who does not even
know what being raped is? Why don’t you think about a woman wearing burka from her head to toe
who even fears meeting unknown eyes getting raped every day? Does that 5 year old body seems so
inviting to you? Do you even see any skin through that burka that’ll make one forget every sanity and jump
over her? You walk everywhere bare chested and you’re a real man, she walks in the same way with at
least some more clothes than you, and she’s not a real woman? Justice? No!
Why
does a male act as if those parts were never in his touch before? Not fair I
say.
Once while visiting a jail, I
happened to meet a rape accused who was just shut in for a rape case. It but came as a shock that, when
asked why he did so, without any guilt of being so inhumane, he told with a pride that, ‘Ghar ma kukhura kaatera ta jalle Pani
Khancha tara simkukhura ko sikaar garnu jasto majjaa tesma khoi? Ma ta tei
mathi mard hoon.’ [Everyone eats chicken at home but where’s the fun that equates
the adventure of hunting wild chicken in the trees? Even more, I am a man].
Shame on human race that being a mere male can make someone feel so righteous
to play every foul against humanity. Whom to blame?
Every male is not a hu/man and
they’re proving it every day, sometimes by harassing her in the open crowd, sometimes
by raping her in the broad daylight, raping her even with candles and rods, and
do you even know how do they rock themselves back and forth in a moving bus?Everyone’s
too busy blaming females for exposing their body but no one seems to
acknowledge the real reason behind these sexual crimes. People are often found
saying that sexual restrictions cause sexual crimes because we always want to
see what’s hidden rather that what’s always visible. But, making that an only
excuse, many other reasons make much sense to motivate these forceful attacks.
In the name of patriotism, in the name of male-hood (not manhood), in the name
of bravery, in the name of adventure, in the name of proving their distaste on
easy meat, don’t you think that males are forgetting to be real man? Don’t you think
that they’re mistaken with the meaning of being real? Don’t you think there are
some limitations that one should remain within being a human than making
excuses afterwards? Why forget that a real man is not the one who just does not
rape, is not the one who just does not cry but the one, who does not fake his
own vision by pretending not to have seen anything wrong with in and around
him. A real hu/man is he who just does not bang his
chest for being a mere male but
he who respects every essence of another human body and the one is he who
never forgets that he’d once lived onto the same female blood when he even had
no heart of his own.
There’s nothing in being a
macho man but there’s a whole kind in being a human. Don’t you think so?
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