The foot in the mouth malaise continues unabated with the latest hopper onto the bandwagon being a Bharatiya Janata Party member of parliament from Chhattisgarh who answers to the name of Ramesh Bains.........
His deeply regrettable and insensitive comment goes something like "while rapes being committed against girls/women who have attained the age of 18 and are adults legally are understandable and somewhat justifiable, rapes that are committed against girls below this age are indeed a heinous crime and a blot on humanity and the perpetrators of all such crimes should be accorded the death penalty without exception".........
Mr. Bains, a rape is a rape period how does the fact that a woman and not a child was raped make it any less heinous or understandable, the fact of the matter is that the life of the victim is unalterably shattered post the incident/crime committed against/on her and leaves her a shadow of the person that she used to be in most if not all such cases..........
Our politicians and leaders have displayed their callousness and disdain for the fairer sex time and again and I for one strongly believe that the time has come for the Indian woman to do the same; compile a data base of all such netas who make these insensitive and sexist comments and make sure that you exhort all other women residing within that particular constituency to boycott that leader and refrain from voting for him..........
Politicians and others of their ilk have always taken and will continue to take the Indian woman for granted until the Indian woman learns to stand up for her own right both legal as well as political/constitutional and come together on a common platform thereby forming a formidable vote bank that any wannabe neta can bypass at his/her own peril..........
Dispel the long held belief that the Indian woman is nothing more than a subservient puppet who casts her invaluable vote at the behest of the menfolk residing under the same roof and in conjunction with their long held political beliefs, the roof will not come down on your head if you hold disparate beliefs vis a vis the menfolk and assert yourself politically, there may be consternation, hints of threats and attempts at coercion, but do remain steadfast in the face of such attempts and only listen to the voice of your conscience if you indeed want to make a change and be the change that you want to see within the country as well as society..........
Educated and enlightened woman can take the lead in this regard and form self help groups/bodies whose express aim would be to acquaint their lesser educated counterparts with the need to vote to cast their vote judiciously/independently and sagely if they want to safeguard their interest and ensure their safety and security.........
An enlightened and responsive leadership is the cornerstone of any emerging and seemingly equal society so do cast your vote judiciously and only vote in those leaders who not only espouse the concerns of the fairer sex but remain committed to their avowed aim of ushering a sea change in the status of women in this highly patriarchal and misogynistic society.........
Always remember that you comprise 50% of any society and will have to demand your due rights if not snatch them by the sheer dint of your numbers if the male dominated society around you continues to deny you your just rights, so do unite, come together and form a homogenised force as the same is only in your own best interests; always remember the age old dictum, "united we stand, divided we fall"............
His deeply regrettable and insensitive comment goes something like "while rapes being committed against girls/women who have attained the age of 18 and are adults legally are understandable and somewhat justifiable, rapes that are committed against girls below this age are indeed a heinous crime and a blot on humanity and the perpetrators of all such crimes should be accorded the death penalty without exception".........
Mr. Bains, a rape is a rape period how does the fact that a woman and not a child was raped make it any less heinous or understandable, the fact of the matter is that the life of the victim is unalterably shattered post the incident/crime committed against/on her and leaves her a shadow of the person that she used to be in most if not all such cases..........
Our politicians and leaders have displayed their callousness and disdain for the fairer sex time and again and I for one strongly believe that the time has come for the Indian woman to do the same; compile a data base of all such netas who make these insensitive and sexist comments and make sure that you exhort all other women residing within that particular constituency to boycott that leader and refrain from voting for him..........
Politicians and others of their ilk have always taken and will continue to take the Indian woman for granted until the Indian woman learns to stand up for her own right both legal as well as political/constitutional and come together on a common platform thereby forming a formidable vote bank that any wannabe neta can bypass at his/her own peril..........
Dispel the long held belief that the Indian woman is nothing more than a subservient puppet who casts her invaluable vote at the behest of the menfolk residing under the same roof and in conjunction with their long held political beliefs, the roof will not come down on your head if you hold disparate beliefs vis a vis the menfolk and assert yourself politically, there may be consternation, hints of threats and attempts at coercion, but do remain steadfast in the face of such attempts and only listen to the voice of your conscience if you indeed want to make a change and be the change that you want to see within the country as well as society..........
Educated and enlightened woman can take the lead in this regard and form self help groups/bodies whose express aim would be to acquaint their lesser educated counterparts with the need to vote to cast their vote judiciously/independently and sagely if they want to safeguard their interest and ensure their safety and security.........
An enlightened and responsive leadership is the cornerstone of any emerging and seemingly equal society so do cast your vote judiciously and only vote in those leaders who not only espouse the concerns of the fairer sex but remain committed to their avowed aim of ushering a sea change in the status of women in this highly patriarchal and misogynistic society.........
Always remember that you comprise 50% of any society and will have to demand your due rights if not snatch them by the sheer dint of your numbers if the male dominated society around you continues to deny you your just rights, so do unite, come together and form a homogenised force as the same is only in your own best interests; always remember the age old dictum, "united we stand, divided we fall"............
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