ARE WOMEN REALLY SAFE ?

My today’s post may take you into a retrospective mode and your mind would want to go into the depths of this issue. A recent incident where in a 16-year-old girl was publicly molested by group of 30 men in an Indian city disturbs me for a variety of reasons. This makes me think is our nation really a safe place for women to survive in. I am sure there are a lot of girls out there who leave their houses everyday for a various reasons be it education or job in fact there are many such women who even leave their cities for considering the better opportunities in terms of their careers. We often boast of an extremely rich culture and tradition where in women are respected and placed in an utmost position but such frequent incidents of rapes and molestation makes me think twice on whether such statements have any importance in our modern-day society where in either men have forgotten the need to respect and value women for they are life bearers/givers or else they consider women as a mere object worth use.

The few things that surprise me the most as a women myself is that once such shameful incidents occur in our nation worth billions of people, the respective authorities rather than performing their task of catching the culprit and putting him behind the bars pass some extremely lame comments such as “women must dress according to the occasion” or the fact that “a women mustn’t dress provocatively as it further triggers a man”, in response to such baseless comments I would sincerely want to ask such people on why is it that a code of conduct is laid for a women rather than disciplining a man ? , Why is it that men are not inculcated with values? And most importantly why does the society despise the women and outcast her as an aftermath for such an incident? Isn’t it something that must be done with the men as they are ones responsible for such a heinous crime.

This is my personal believe that no man can ever understand the psyche of a women after she goes through such a horrible incident in her life. Such things have an ability to change ones life upside down, no matter how ambitious or independent a women might be as an aftermath of such incident she retreats back into her shell, her life is never the same as her self-confidence goes for a toss. Intimidated parents thinking of how the society might label them as marry their daughter off as soon as possible and thus the story of an independent and ambitious women reaches its bitter end as her life now gets confined to the walls of her own house. Not just that a woman is unable to furthermore trust anyone in her life and we can’t blame her for that, it is this society and that accused who is responsible for changing the life of one such happy and cheerful girl.

I do not wish to preach anyone through this post, its just that all this disturbs me deeply and makes me think ARE WOMEN REALLY SAFE ?