Everybody I wanted to post this on 'The official day against violence against women day' but uh see I was really busy with my exams, still two left. Pray for me? Merci. Love you all who visit my blog. Do drop in some comments just so that I know how I am writing. :P
Women in our country need a hard and genuine voice. A voice that is prevalent and fights till the end. Even if it just a battle of words. Well to be honest that voice can be their own but insecurities, oppression ,fears, suppression and tragedies. These things are the dark haunting things that silence all those dreaded agonized souls who want to have their voice heard who deserve their voice to be heard. i intend to become that voice. I know there are many but I want to be among them as well. Take time and read this through. And please I intend to start a initiative for empowering women soon. Help me and join me to tell this world that without women it could be nothing but just a rotting piece of bleak/mean/angry/messed up people. I'm posting the unedited version of my article here. I'll update it with the final, official one soon if God wills.
As I write this, my hands tremble and my
heart cries what this world has become? Are we really humans or is it just a
dilemma? Our society has become intoxicated with those devilish creatures that
are breathing and spreading an aura of terror and insecurity among us, without
being caught and butchered in front of everyone, what they really deserve.
Our
country is brewing with those people who are a threat to this nation’s
integrity. Who don't respect women and think of them as an item of slavery and
pleasure. Our society and culture has become so malicious and conservative that
we don’t even know what we're doing. Women are thought of as slaves, persons
who do your work, meet your every need, and isolate themselves from everybody.
They're not perceived as human beings but merely pawns in life. Daughters are
told not to interact with anyone other than their family.
To stay away from guys. Well fine and alright but we can't completely shun
ourselves from the world. After all at every point of our lives we have to
interact and work with men. So why not just go and face them. If we have
friends then suspicion arises whether they are good or bad. We are not allowed
to go out with our friends just because we are girls? That's complete nonsense.
Girls are not allowed to study in co-ed environment because there are 'boys'
there and it will be not good for them and their personality. Well if that
really is so, have parents thought if the confidence their child can gain from
studying in a co-ed environment. The competitiveness and sharp personality that
would eventually develop with the passage of time? No they're just too busy
isolating their generations from the world that when their children get to face
the world and it’s time for them to interact with other different individuals,
they're unable to do so and they, the children are those who face
embarrassment, humiliation. They’re the ones whose self-esteem shatters badly
and confidence gets ruined.
Why are girls married early? Most of the
parents present this point that its necessary and they can complete their
education afterwards and do what they want to do after marriage. No, this
awfully wrong. They should not be forced to marry against their will. If they
want to enjoy the pleasures of life and take on the world independently then
let it be so. Why push them to unhappiness and bind them with someone? All of this
is utterly pathetic in its entirety, this backward and shameful thinking. It must
and has to change. And as for those who present this so-called argument of our
society and culture, well let them be aware that it’s a failed one filled with
huge flaws and what an individual has to do with their life is not all
concerned and needs not to be related to the society because it’s their own
life they have to live. Nobody can dictate them or their lives. We the youth
and women should not put concerns of the society prior to our life and should
decide free minded what we want to do.
Every woman deserves to be given utmost
importance and respect. We have every right to be independent, to live an
independent life and to be not told what to do, to do our work freely; to wear
what we think would look nicer on us. Go anywhere we like, talk with anyone we
want to and enjoy the pleasures of life. And I insist on it strongly with all
my strength that women have equal and more importance then men and are an
integral part of a society and without them the world would be nothing.
Every now and then we hear the stories of
abductions, rapes, harassment, honor killings, acid burning incidents and
murders about and of women in the everyday news. While reading this does the
thought passes through your mind that lately inhuman and terrible incidents like
this one have been happening a lot? But why? Who's to blame? Who is behind
this? Those culprits, animals and barbarous people who're committing these
acts, why are they not being caught and terminated from the society? Are our
law enforcement agencies, which I hardly believe there are any and even if
there are they take NO action AT ALL to stop these crimes, totally helpless and
can do nothing about this wave of unimaginable things being done to the
society's youth, who are responsible for our nation’s future? What should be
done is to set up a hard precedent for deterrence so that nobody would ever go
down this horrible lane, and that people would be fearful to commit such
felonies again. The police and every law enforcement agency in this country
should do its hardest best to chase the culprits and don’t let them get away
with dirty hands. Every nook and cranny should and must be searched in the hunt
for these criminals and nobody should rest until the guilty are caught and
justice is done. The criminals should be caught and sentenced to death or given
life imprisonment so that those who are thinking on their lines can be taught a
lesson before they have re-enacted the acts and so that they can be stopped
from committing such heinous acts. This society has made its women so
vulnerable and fragile that every other onlooker views them as a target of
their evil thinking and so on.
Why are we still sitting in our homes,
talking about what should be done, rather than going out as a nation and demand
immediate action to be taken against these barbarous acts? Is this really a 'free’
and secure country we're living in? I don’t think so. Who is going to answer
all these questions? The country's situation has become so terrible and worse
that the moment we step out if our homes we don’t know the things that can
happen to us. Those malicious eyes staring at us, those pathetic voices and
disgusting comments being hurled at us, girls. That chill you get when a
vehicle passes by you and your mind starts thinking what if we're going to get
abducted, harassed or robbed of our belongings? What is this all? The cloud of
insecurity that never leaves us in peace and lets us rest. Why cannot it just
go away? All these questions left unanswered yearn an answer to them. We wait
for the day steps will be taken against these things and until then we won’t
stop pleading for help, security and respect.
In the end, let me just ask this question. “Are we really still
humans?”
