CRIME AGAINST MEN AND WOMEN

 EVERYDAY, IN THE NEWSPAPER, ON TV, SOCIAL MEDIA AND OTHER PLATFORMS, THERE IS SOMETHING NEW, NEW INVENTIONS, NEW POLICIES, NEW PROJECTS BUT ONE THING REMAINS SAME. EVERYDAY. IT'S THE WORK OF THE MONSTERS DISGUISED AS HUMANS, THEY COME IN BOTH FORMS - MEN AND WOMEN. MURDER, EVE TEASING, RAPE, MOLESTATION AND WHAT NOT. ARE WOMEN  THE ONLY ONE WHO FACE IT? NO. IT'S A SAD REALITY THAT CRIME AGAINST MEN ARE NOT GIVEN PROPER ATTENTION, ACTS LIKE MALE OBJECTIFICATION ARE SOLD AS PRANKS ON SOCIAL MEDIA. BUT WHOSE FAULT IS THIS?

THERE IS NO DEFINITE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION.

FROM THE BEGINNING WHEN, A CHILD STARTS GOING TO SCHOOL, HE IS GIVEN A PUNISHMENT OF SITTING WITH THE OPPOSITE GENDER. THIS MIGHT SEEM IRRELEVANT POINT BUT UNTIL CLASS 3, I USED TO THINK THAT TALKING TO GIRLS IS A BAD THING UNLESS THEY ARE YOUR FAMILY MEMBER. AND AS I GREW UP, I REALISED THAT I WAS NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THOUGHT SO, MY YOUNGER COUSINS BELIEVED THE SAME THINGS. HOW DOES THIS AFFECT THE CHILDREN, THEY START TO THINK OF THE OPPOSITE GENDER AS SOMEONE DIFFERENT FROM THEM. OF COURSE THIS MIGHT NOT BE TRUE FOR EVERYONE.

ENTERTAINMENT MEDIA LIKE MOVIES HAVE ALWAYS ROMANTICISED ACTS LIKE STALKING AND EVE TEASING. THEY SHOW IT LIKE THE ONLY WAY TO 'WIN' A GIRL. DDLJ,  ONE OF THE BIGGEST HITS OF BOLLYWOOD HAS THE PLOT BASED ENTIRELY ON STALKING. ACTORS LIKE GOVINDA HAVE THEIR WHOLE CAREER FILLED WITH MOVIES GLORIFYING STALKING AND HAVING HEROINES IN THEM ONLY FOR OBJECTIFICATION. BUT HEY! IT'S JUST A MOVIE YOU WATCH IT, YOU FORGET IT. NO!  A FEW YEARS BACK, IN A CASE OF EVE TEASING, THE ACCUSED SAID IN THE COURT THAT, HE USED TO STALK THE GIRL BECAUSE HE SAW IT IN A MOVE THAT THEY LIKE SUCH THINGS AND EVENTUALLY FALL FOR THEM.

NO PROPER SEX EDUCATION.  GO TO A 15 YEAR OLD AND ASK HIM/ HER IF THEY KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. MOST PROBABLY THEY WILL EITHER GIGGLE OR TRY TO AVOID THE CONVERSATION. IS IT THE CHILD'S FAULT? MAYBE. BUT IF YOU GO TO THEIR PARENTS AND ASK THEM IF SEX EDUCATION SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN THE SCHOOL SYLLABUS, THEY ARE ALSO LIKELY TO OPPOSE THIS OR REFUSE TO COMMENT. IN FACT ONCE THE GOVT. TRIED TO INTRODUCE IT IN THE SYLLABUS WHICH WERE FOLLOWED BY PROTESTS AGAINST THIS DECISION. ALL THIS MAY LEAD THE CHILD TO ACCESS PORNOGRAPHIC SITES WHICH ARE KNOWN TO AFFECT THE MIND NEGATIVELY AND GIVE A REALLY BAD AND FALSE NARRATIVE ABOUT THE SEXUAL CONTACT AND HEALTH. MANY RAPE CONVICTED ARE KNOWN TO BE INFLUENCED BY THESE VIDEOS.

                   

SLOW JUSTICE SYSTEM AND TABOOS. THE ACCUSED IS A RICH GUY? HE WILL GET BAIL. THE VICTIM FILED A FAKE CASE? ALRIGHT, BURY THE ACCUSED AND PUT A FINE OF ₹500 ON THE GIRL. THERE HAVE BEEN CASES WHERE A MAN WENT TO POLICE STATION TO COMPLAIN ABOUT HIS MOLESTATION AND WAS RIDICULED. THE POLICE DID NOT FILE HIS COMPLAINT. SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS ABOUT RAPE OF MEN GET LAUGHING EMOJIS BY EVERYONE. MENTAL HEALTH IS ALREADY A FORBIDDEN TOPIC. MEN'S MENTAL HEALTH IS USUALLY COMPLETELY IGNORED. FROM THE CHILDHOOD, BOYS ARE TOLD NOT TO CRY AND KEEP THEIR EMOTIONS HIDDEN. THINGS ARE CHANGING BUT NOT AT PACE AT WHICH IT IS NEEDED.

NO RESISTANCE.ONCE A FAMOUS FILM DIRECTOR GAVE AN INTERVIEW IN WHICH HE REVEALED THAT IN HIS COLLEGE DAYS, THERE WAS SOME CONSTRUCTION WORK GOING ON NEAR THE CAMPUS WHERE A YOUNG FEMALE USED TO WORK. HE AND HIS FRIENDS USED TO GO AND STARE AT HER WHILE SHE USED TO WORK. ONCE, ONE OF HIS FRIENDS SAID THAT THEY COULD HOP AT HER WHEN SHE WAS ALONE AND EASILY OVERPOWER HER. EVERYONE INCLUDING HIM GOT EXCITED AND PRAISED THIS IDEA, EXCEPT ONE OF HIS FRIEND WHO GOT UP AND SLAPPED EVERYONE THERE FOR THINKING SUCH A THING. FRO THAT DAY THEY NEVER WENT TO WATCH HER AND FELT ASHAMED OF THEMSELVES. THIS CAN MEAN THAT THE PARENTS SHOULD ENSURE THAT THEIR CHILDREN ARE NOT UNDER ANY BAD INFLUENCE. YOU MIGHT NOW BE HATING THE ABOVE PEOPLE FOR EVEN STARING AT THAT GIRL BUT HAVE YOU REALISED THAT A FAMOUS SOFT DRINK COMPANY HAS THE ABOVE STORY AS THEIR ADVERTISEMENT WHERE 3 GIRLS GO OUT TO STARE AT A GUY PAINTING A WALL DURING THEIR FREE TIME? THE ADVERTISEMENT IS STILL RUNNING WITHOUT ANY OBJECTION FROM ANYONE.

THE SOLUTION

WELL, JUST AS THERE ARE NO DEFINITE REASONS FOR THE CRIMES, THERE ARE NO DEFINITE SOLUTIONS TOO. WE NEED TO ENSURE THAT THE FUTURE GENERATIONS GET PROPER EDUCATION ABOUT THIS TOPIC. THE MISUSE OF THE LAW SHOULD BE PREVENTED BY GIVING HARSHER PUNISHMENTS TO THE PEOPLE WHO FILE FAKE CASES. CRIME AGAINST MEN SHOULD BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY TOO. THE MOVIES AND WEB SERIES MAKERS SHOULD MAKE CONTENT RESPONISBLY TAKING CARE THAT NO NEGATIVE MESSAGE SHOULD GO IN THE SOCIETY UNDER THE VEIL OF ENTERTAINMENT. THE CHILDREN SHOULD BE KEPT AWAY FROM FAKE INFLUENCERS LIKE MOVIE ACTORS AND ACTRESSES WHO CLAIM TO BE FEMINISTS WHILE THEMSELVES PROMOTING THE VULGAR SONGS AND WOMEN OBJECTIFICATION. 

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THIS ARTICLE HAS THE INPUTS FROM THE WHOLE BOREDOM BASHERS TEAM.