After the Ordinance
After those banners, candles, petitions,, rants and slogans, the slog overs.
What have we in hand? A death penalty. Who will locate the rapist, stand witness for death penalty, for surely the girl will be killed.
Is anyone aware of the volume of studies on death penalties and their actual deterrence value? Especially when murder is cheaper than rape?
What after the Ordinance? Legislation? How? All those MPs and MLAs are hard boiled politicos, many themselves involved. What would it take to make them vote for a Bill to offer India’s females security?
Did legislation work after Mathura and Nirbhaya. Read and find out.
Patriarchy has always existed; but from ‘Avuncular’ in the recent past, it has moved Now to Rabid!
The present lot of ragamuffins and their minders in Parliament will go much beyond That “ cut balonwali” stigmatisation, bolstered by the saffron ladies brigade, to stall any legislation.
Now, if wishes were horses— any those ‘ek Dhaka macro’ brigade were to shift focus from pativrata to respect at home in their door- to-door rounds, change would come up from grassroots.
So where do we start from? THE HOME!
The Return of the Dadi Nani brigade to inculcate into our boys what we inculcate in our girls: all those niceties of social interaction, walk, talk and wear. Make them as fearful of social ire as the fear we instill in our girls.
We celebrate Rakhi when a sister ties a thread and the brother promises protection. Will the boy ‘respect’ only his own sister while sizing up others’ sister? Will he respect his sister after she’s raped? High time to teach our males that Womanhood does not exist between the legs of a Woman; and show them that respect at home, within the family circle too; ease gender divides by letting them play together whether dolls or Lego….. change the “ ladke rote nahin” to “ladke ro to sakte magar rulate nahin”.
The Return of Naming and Shaming. But this time of the Rapists, their families and friends, their paanwala, garage wala, parlorwala, everybody. Some women will be hurt, mother, sister whose engagement may be broken or sent home from sasural for a Rapist Bro…. but it will make that fear of breaking the rules as real for the guys as it is today for the gals.
It’s the Conditioning that matters— so rewrite the nursery rhymes and school textbooks to start gender equality hardwiring from the beginning.
Are there any options?
What have we in hand? A death penalty. Who will locate the rapist, stand witness for death penalty, for surely the girl will be killed.
Is anyone aware of the volume of studies on death penalties and their actual deterrence value? Especially when murder is cheaper than rape?
What after the Ordinance? Legislation? How? All those MPs and MLAs are hard boiled politicos, many themselves involved. What would it take to make them vote for a Bill to offer India’s females security?
Did legislation work after Mathura and Nirbhaya. Read and find out.
Patriarchy has always existed; but from ‘Avuncular’ in the recent past, it has moved Now to Rabid!
The present lot of ragamuffins and their minders in Parliament will go much beyond That “ cut balonwali” stigmatisation, bolstered by the saffron ladies brigade, to stall any legislation.
Now, if wishes were horses— any those ‘ek Dhaka macro’ brigade were to shift focus from pativrata to respect at home in their door- to-door rounds, change would come up from grassroots.
So where do we start from? THE HOME!
The Return of the Dadi Nani brigade to inculcate into our boys what we inculcate in our girls: all those niceties of social interaction, walk, talk and wear. Make them as fearful of social ire as the fear we instill in our girls.
We celebrate Rakhi when a sister ties a thread and the brother promises protection. Will the boy ‘respect’ only his own sister while sizing up others’ sister? Will he respect his sister after she’s raped? High time to teach our males that Womanhood does not exist between the legs of a Woman; and show them that respect at home, within the family circle too; ease gender divides by letting them play together whether dolls or Lego….. change the “ ladke rote nahin” to “ladke ro to sakte magar rulate nahin”.
The Return of Naming and Shaming. But this time of the Rapists, their families and friends, their paanwala, garage wala, parlorwala, everybody. Some women will be hurt, mother, sister whose engagement may be broken or sent home from sasural for a Rapist Bro…. but it will make that fear of breaking the rules as real for the guys as it is today for the gals.
It’s the Conditioning that matters— so rewrite the nursery rhymes and school textbooks to start gender equality hardwiring from the beginning.
Are there any options?
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