The Lost Morality

 It’s been a long time since I wrote something. However, the news articles in the newspapers ignited me to talk on the topic. ‘A hundred year old woman raped to death’. What a perverted act? Has humanity lost all its sanity? How could one do such a brutal, heinous crime? Most of us would have a common instinct to slay the accused. Lynching seems to be the right solution. But I doubt whether that’s going to do any good. Will it stop such sexual violence?

The fatal Delhi gang rape of 2012 led to a massive outcry among the public and it was expected then that such cases will be reduced in the coming years with the development of tougher laws. However, what we are able to see is an absolutely opposite result. Females of every age group are being molested and harassed every day.  In fact, newspapers might be allotting a space for such kind of news piece (and sometimes, as much as a whole page is dedicated for it). Now all the major cities have rape cases to boast about.

The recent news of police station refusing to lodge the FIR on complaint by a teenage girl makes me doubt whether they are in favour of the accused and promoting for more of it. Well, rapes have become an old topic to discuss. The media has made our hearts numb on such issues. We have got so accustomed to all of these that we just ignore them. 

Anyhow, what could one do regarding it? Who is to be blamed for this? Those men? Those chauvinist hypocrites for whom female bodies are just a commodity. Those victims? Those victims of rape who are blamed by the society for their negligence, daring, dressing, talk etc. I just feel sorry for the people who are of the opinion that the number of rapes could be reduced if the women do not leave their homes and remain traditional. Pity at their unsound brains and illogical reasoning! A guy had commented on a social media post that the majority of sexual abuses will cease if ladies wear a shawl. Oh dear brother, only if it were that easy! 

We are all to be blamed for the increase in number of rapes. The blame goes to the government for their lukewarm laws and mild punishments for rapists; the police for ‘who knows what’ reason refuses to file FIR from women during such circumstances; the politicians for bailing out rape criminals; the media for sensationalising rape news simultaneously desensitising the public; the cinemas which are filled with sexist sarcasm; those onlookers who watch a girl being beaten up by a boy and do nothing to stop the crime in the first place; those parents who discriminate their boy and girl child; all those husbands, brothers and boyfriends who assumes a right to harass, suppress and torture their wives, sisters and girlfriends while imposing their rules over them. The whole society needs to be reproached for their victim blaming and unjust, discriminate remarks.

As long as people follow the similar approach, nothing is going to change. Not women empowerment neither pseudo feminism nor moral policing is going to bring down the number of rapes. We have to admit the fact that ‘no man is a saint’ (the recent reports of priests, swamis and baba gurus accused in rape cases are substantiations for it). Every human being has their sexual urges, men and women equally. However, it doesn’t give anyone the right to prey on a human body just to please their needs.