~~~ Victim ~~~

“She asked for it.
It's all about money.
They have made it a business.
It is consensual most of the time.”

How long will it take for the society to grow up and behave like sane and sensible? How long will woman be sacrificed just in the name of dowry, tortured mentally, emotionally and physically? RAPE….does the word just flashes on your mind when a girl is pulled in the car by a bunch of drunk boys belonging to some ministers or as we can say “socially repute, respectable and honorable” people. C’mon people WAKE UP…..

Have you not heard of gang rape of a woman by her own in laws? Sometimes coz she is unable to fulfill the greed of in-laws, sometimes coz she could not bear a boy child and sometimes just coz her outlook towards life didn’t match that of her in- laws. Have you not heard of female infanticide? And if a wife is pregnant she is taken to doctor not to see how healthily the baby is growing but to determine the sex of the child. If the unborn is a male, he is allowed to live through the trimesters…..but if it’s a girl, she is forcibly aborted…don’t you think this is a deformed kind of RAPE itself….mentally and emotionally shattered woman? And how about female infanticide practiced in most of the parts of India even today by dropping the newborn female child in an urn of milk? And how about child abuse, girl child being physically molested and raped repeatedly by her known relatives and to the horror by her male siblings and father? My rage questions me, which century are these people living in….its 21st century for God sakes…..Do they still think of women to be ”Sex machines” or “slaves”?

And what about Indian Government, most states being ruled by women? Isn’t their duty to make some amendment to change the whole scenario, to bring up the dignity of women? What happened to worship of mother goddess? How many more zillions of sacrifices will it take to resurrect the long lost pride, dignity and self-esteem of women?

Here we see the image of a woman's legs sprawled on what appears to be a bathroom floor. Her underwear is pulled down to her ankles. The ad reads, "Date Rape: She didn't want to, but she couldn't say no." A similar companion ad seems to imply that friends who were a part of heavy drinking are also to blame.

"Sexual Assault," the ad reads, "That's what Anne's attorney will call it a month from now. She said no, but he kept going. And now, your friend is on his bathroom floor, bruised and victimized. See how you could have prevented this."

It just makes me go bonkers about this episode. This is more a culture thing in India. I have spoken to many people and I have found that even women hold this view that only loose women get raped and they are responsible to bring it upon them. These cops are just the reflection of our society as a whole. A woman, once raped is “ostracized “by her family, she loses her job, she is humiliated everywhere. There are even saying that a woman once raped, actually starts loving being raped. So let us try to change our mindset about this issue and for that matter many other issues, like what a woman should wear, whether she should drink and smoke in public, or whether to get to live a life of dignity and chose to live with a person she wills to….etc.

Coutesy : In and around Delhi, cops blame rapes on women: Tehelka investigation with NDTV (www.ndtv.com)