I am deeply
disturbed with the Guwahati Mob incident :(
A class XIth girl is publicly molested by every man that was
surrounding her.
Not one single man helped her.
I just don’t have the capability to understand why no one
helped her? Its beyond reason to me. Speaking for myself I know I would have
done something, I can’t be sure what I may have done, but I certainly wouldn’t
have walked away. Maybe if the goons were too scary, I would have stopped my
car in the middle of the road & blocked traffic, if that would have seemed
the best thing to gather others to help this girl out. Done something! I would
have!!
Somewhere in the hearts and minds most people try to come up
with reasoning of why those men did what they did. Many of them even come up
with this conclusion that it’s the provocative dressing or the manner in which
the woman conducted herself lead to those men behaving that way. They couldn’t
be more off. What’s it about a schoolgirl sometimes even under 10-years of age
to be teased, pawed, molested, catcalled, winked, butt-pinched. I say this for
this has happened to me in schools buses in the safe environment of an Army
cantonment. I shudder to even think what would a young girl, a teenager or a
grown woman undergo in public transport on a daily basis in all our cities and
towns.
But what troubles me most is that when I ask people around
us in our social circles about their stand in situations like this, I get
varied answers, from call the police to walk away, none have said come hell or
high water they would have helped the girl out, may be just 1 or 2, but I can
safely say the majority’s stand is not to jump in and help. May be most people
live by principle: ‘fools rush in where angels fear to tread’.
Some of us tend to rationalize things. Just about everything
from the time we wake up to the time the lights are turned off on the day.
Looking around I have noticed that it’s mostly the males of our species who
fall in this category. They will look at everything concerning a woman and come
up with a hypothesis in the blink of an eye; women have it easy at work for all
they need to be is pleasing; why do
women need a special compartment in the Metro when there are more men; how come
traffic cops seldom challan a lady driver even if she is in the wrong and such.
But when it comes things that really matter no one, not a single man has a
stand, a strong voice or even a moment’s thought to do what is right.
I don’t know, why they just don’t get up and help. What are
they so scared of? Being beaten? Be killed? And if Men can’t help a hapless
girls then men shouldn’t be the keepers of our society, especially the male
chauvinist ones, “Karta of the Hindu Undivided Family’.
When as a woman, I can at least imagine helping her, why
can’t men!
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