"SHE" - AN INVITATION TO RAPE

Yes," she" is no longer a woman, a lady, a girl, a mother, an aunt, a sister or a daughter, 'SHE' is an invitation to rape.

According to our Indian society, not dressing ''PROPERLY" is a call for rape. Banning certain kinds of clothing is not the answer to curb rape. A few politicians and Khap Panchayats view clothing as the reason behind rape and think that rape in most cases is consensual.But i am sorry to say my seniors, the rape is not a rape if it is consensual,this however you fail to realise.

The male gender is carefully protected and siphoned off any responsibility of their action. Questioning the clothing of a woman is an easy and clever way to put the blame of rape on woman rather than oneself.

If clothing is the real issue then how is the rampant rape record of infants justified in the country. More than 50% of the children in the country have faced sexual abuse of some form. Here i put forward a question to all those people in the society who consider dressing as the reason for rape, what kind of defect you find in a child's dressing? where is the sensuality hidden? how do you get aroused by a kid?

Should we start asking our kids to wear so called cultural and traditional wraps which in our society's view provides us a guaranteed assurance that our kids will not be raped. If these people are showing narrow minded resistance to change and saying that changing towards western culture will destroy the concept of Indian culture then why should not we go back to the time when we had nothing just few leaves to cover our body. When for our ancestors covering private parts was just enough then why not for us.

This still is not the solution to rape neither clothing is an incitement of rape. Plenty of assaulted women are not dressed sexily, including women draped in head to toe abayas ( burqas). Interestingly, veiled women are  blamed too:"he must have seen a bit of her ankle, wrist, hair, neck.... who could resist!.

Rapists who misread  cues believes the following:
Men are naturally assertive and women are naturally passive. There are Good Girls and "BAD GIRLS'
"BAD GIRLS" secretly wants sex but cannot admit it, so they trick men into forcing sex, which results in rape. How do these BAD GIRLS sends signals, by doing things like smiling at them or making eye contact to them or by showing a little leg or cleavage, so these men may see a low cut blouse as a "RAPE ME" signal. But while they also see a smile or eye contact as a sexual COME ON ,women are only blamed for the dress. Have you ever heard anyone saying "never look at man" or smile at a man, he may rape you!"

If the society thinks dressing modestly will protect women then i'm sorry but it won't. Most rapists do not care about "cues" and ladies just in case if you run into those who do, you better not look at them or smile at any man either just to be safe.

Should we really have to live this way? or should men choose not to rape?

The number of assaults will not go down if women make sure to cover up. Rapists will rape and will definetly find something to blame other than himself. And still its the WOMEN"S FAULT.

If the officials are of the opinion that dressing alone is the factor that screams "RAPE ME", they are justifying the offender and the crime is no longer the crime. We need to wake up and realise that for a criminal there is no limit, whether it is a 80 year old women who is alone, 18 year college going girl, a 35 year old married woman or a 4 year kid playing on the road or studying in the school.

But still its our fault. Watch the above provided video my ladies because its "YOUR FAULT".


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