Monday, December 24, 2012

Main point that we are missing in these protest against delhi gang rape.

When family upbringing is considered as much responsible as child, who
has gone into drug addiction, they why same responsibilty is not
shared by our society for rapist? All of us are protesting for
punishment of culprits and just focusing on their crime and weakness
in police and law. There is no doubt that we must keep pressure so
that authorities take serious note and concrete action, so that one
thinks thousand times before playing with someone's life. Though more
important is our upbringing in which we both unconsciously and
consciously communicate superiority of male over female right from
birth. And then movies and especially ads which potrays female as just
sex object.
But the main point we miss that more than lust, its misuse of power in
rapist mind that plays major role. Its fact that most of such henious
crime are done by either rich & powerful or by poor, whose power lies
in that he has nothing to lose. So both have heightened sense of power
which they misuse by playing with someone's life. After cases such as
Salman Khan car accident, BMW accident case, Jessica case and recently
murder of assistant inspector for stopping eve teasing of her own
daughter, some message has gone that its not easy for anyone to go
aways from crime, however rich or powerful he is, especially if ''
media catches story''. But such message is not deterrent to poor whose
power lies that he is nothing to lose much as anyway he is not much
happy with life when he see such big contrast between rich and poverty
along with traditional mindset. So main point we are missing is poor
people living in slum in urban areas to which most of us have blind
eye like they don't exist. By acknowledging their existence and
understand that till even one of yours kid is not educated properly,
whole family cannot be happy and safe. One of the way is to bring some
basic moral and spiritual values in their life. Navchetna Shiver by
volunteers of Art of Living organization, founded by Sri Sri
Ravishankar is excellent example of such initiative. Only such
initiatives can bring radical changes in society and change the whole
mindset like it had happened for caste system mindset in past.
Otherwise strict law, police will remain just cat mouse never ending
game. So rather than just protesting against police, law, we should
also focus on mindset of youth to respect women and also be aware what
type of message we are giving consciously or unconsciously through our
ads, movies. And this should start from those kids of society whose
existence and infulence in society we deny.

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