India is gripped by an epidemic. Our most susceptible inhabitants, males in positions of energy & authority, are being pressured to take accountability for acts of sexual aggression. By no means earlier than has the established order been challenged so openly. Going ahead, there might be a risk that entitled males might have to suppose twice earlier than catcalling, inappropriately touching and/or sexually assaulting ladies. These try instances for our males. However all just isn’t misplaced. A military of warriors throughout print, TV and social media has jumped into motion to guard our defenceless males accused of sexual assault. Hopefully we will create an India, the place males by no means have to take an iota of accountability for his or her actions. We wish to play our half in creating this misogynistic utopia. So listed here are among the finest methods to make sure that ladies at all times get the blame for being sexually assaulted:
1) Blame ladies, for being ladies
Girls have our bodies that they cowl with garments, they’ve mouths by way of which they speak they usually maintain jobs (some magnanimous males enable this!). This primarily means you may blame a lady’s garments, phrases or behaviour.
Something a lady wears, or says, or does, can be utilized to justify sexual assault. Why was she sporting that? Why did she say/electronic mail that? Why did she go there? Growth! No additional clarification wanted for a person sexually harassing and/or assaulting a lady. This reasoning may be even be complemented with the nice outdated, “males can be males”, “boys can be boys” as a result of it’s frequent information that males and boys simply can’t assist themselves.
2) Blame ladies for “not reporting on time”
One of many unwritten guidelines of sexual assault is the statute of limitations on reporting incidents. An assault solely happens if reported to the police instantly. Each time accused, a person can simply say that the lady ought to have gone to the police instantly. Fortunately, 99% of sexual assault are unreported in India, largely as a result of nobody believes victims (usually, together with authorities) and we’ve an excessive amount of societal satisfaction to inconvenience our males. Moreover, the facility dynamics usually imply that girls could be pressured between having a profession OR selecting to spend the remainder of their lives making an attempt to show that they have been wronged. And God forbid, if a ladies comes out overtly, a person can at all times use the regulation (which mercifully is skewed in favour of those that have energy and affect) to close ladies down instantly. Indian heroes MJ Akbar & Alok Nath are at the moment offering an attractive demonstration of this phenomenon. The person at all times wins.
3) Blame ladies for his or her “publicity” wants
Slightly identified truth about Indian ladies is that they’ve an insatiable need for “publicity”. Because of this dozens of ladies are ready to make use of their female witchcraft to organically give you impartial accounts of sexual assault experiences that title the identical particular person. On this case, society robotically believes the person (who after all is the true sufferer) and can dismiss the ladies for simply wanting some publicity.
4) Blame these evil western ladies
#MeToo began out someplace within the West. Because the revered Mohan Bhagat, Sarsanghchalak of the RSS as soon as educated the nation that rapes and gangrapes are restricted to urban India with its western culture and that such ‘things’ do not happen in rural India, where traditional values hold sway. #MeTooIndia may be minimized as a Western idea that’s irrelevant in India. A pleasant twist so as to add to this logic is to say that if we care about city “elite” Indian ladies, then we’re ignoring the poor i.e. the “actual points” of the nation. City ladies are after all anticipated to maintain getting groped and assaulted until somebody solves the “actual points”.
5) Blame ladies supporting victims
If all else fails, simply discover an unrelated girl guilty. For instance, you can blame the daughter of somebody accused of sexual misconduct. Within the case of Journalist Vinod Dua, it was determined that his daughter, who’s a public determine, was to be held accountable (actually, much more accountable than perpetrators of those alleged crimes). Even higher, simply blame Barkha Dutt. As per Twitter, the last word accountability for making certain justice is served, lies along with her. The important thing right here is to deflect blame from the person being accused.
Fortunately, the nation continues to care about due-process for the accused males, reasonably than the rampant sexual abuse of ladies. And we proceed to have societal constructions and legal guidelines that can proceed to maintain ladies subservient to the whims of highly effective males. We have now a wealthy tradition of entitled males doing no matter they need with ladies. #Metoo / #TimesUp and so on. will come and go however our bhartiya sanskriti is protected.
