tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8688378419998757392.post7493107791549238502..comments2023-09-22T23:42:29.727+05:30Comments on Hyperbole, much?: Delhi, I thought you liked your girls?Kakul Gautamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10799060676066953643noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8688378419998757392.post-20305425723231960102012-03-24T12:50:34.471+05:302012-03-24T12:50:34.471+05:30Hello there, Razor.
I know you're in cohorts...Hello there, Razor. <br /><br />I know you're in cohorts with my parents, so I am unsure how much of this is just a ploy to get me to stay home. However, I will reply. <br /><br />The essential problem here is that their retroactive warnings are targeted towards ensuring the victim changes her behaviour. Ensure women don't work post 8? Sure, that might stop one rape that year- but that will also turn the clock back a hundred years in every way.<br /><br />Their second delightful suggestion was to dress modestly. Now, I agree with you that rape is committed in the mind first. Those minds will undress a burkha clad woman as easily as they will a college student.<br /><br />It's also public opinion like this which perpetuates belief among the a**h**les that women who don't dress conservatively and are out post 8- those women are 'easy' and hence can be raped/molested.<br /><br />Now, pl have no more discussions with my parents regarding my curfew- that is your Christmas gift to me :)Kakul Gautamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10799060676066953643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8688378419998757392.post-14400776575368110322012-03-24T00:12:52.291+05:302012-03-24T00:12:52.291+05:30This is such a touchy topic that the inner voices ...This is such a touchy topic that the inner voices are all screaming at me to leave it alone, but hey! What do they know?<br />The fact is this. There are a**h***s everywhere. In every part of the World, of either sex. And the fact is also this: no police force, no government can ever do anything but retroactively make arrests and dish out warnings. Seriously, how can the Gurgaon police force (however crooked, ineffectual and sleazy)possibly do anything about the filth that exists in people's minds? There is no way to stop a spur-of-the-moment crime from occurring, no matter HOW many policemen you stuff into society, without violating every single tenet of democracy and human rights. I agree completely that it's disgusting, and I'm a firm supporter of the death penalty for rapists, but the truth is that crimes like molestation and rape are committed in the mind first, and then, only when opportunity presents itself, in reality. I pray you get your Christmas wish, Kakul. But until then, please listen to your parents. It's annoying when they're right, but they generally are.The Razorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11493552706796665108noreply@blogger.com