A lot of women are sharing some of the bad experiences they have had and needless to say, there aren't many or any who don't have something to say on the subject.
I don't know whether India is the only country where women are molested, probably not. However it is perhaps the only one where it happens so shamelessly frequently, and infects almost every young girl with its poison.
While rape demands some sort of personality disorder, molestation is a lot more commonplace. A grope here, a handful there. With a side-order of a lewd remark or two. The men who perpetrate these actions are cowards of the highest degree and my belief is that they apprehend mostly only young girls because they know that these girls are scared, easily embarrassed and less likely to raise hell or chase after them.
What sort of mentality does the man on the street have to think it is okay to grope a girl, secure in the knowledge that she won't scream? It is crucial to find out.
Because therein lies our problem. The man who thinks it is okay to thrust his groin into a school-girl in front of him on a crowded bus, thinks so for a reason. And I am not talking about why he thinks it is okay because he will not have to pay for it; I am asking why his personal sense of morality allows for it. We all have a line we would never cross. The man on the street will not condone murder, maybe not even rape. But molestation or as it is sickeningly called 'eve-teasing', he is okay with. And therein lies our problem.
I don't know whether India is the only country where women are molested, probably not. However it is perhaps the only one where it happens so shamelessly frequently, and infects almost every young girl with its poison.
While rape demands some sort of personality disorder, molestation is a lot more commonplace. A grope here, a handful there. With a side-order of a lewd remark or two. The men who perpetrate these actions are cowards of the highest degree and my belief is that they apprehend mostly only young girls because they know that these girls are scared, easily embarrassed and less likely to raise hell or chase after them.
What sort of mentality does the man on the street have to think it is okay to grope a girl, secure in the knowledge that she won't scream? It is crucial to find out.
Because therein lies our problem. The man who thinks it is okay to thrust his groin into a school-girl in front of him on a crowded bus, thinks so for a reason. And I am not talking about why he thinks it is okay because he will not have to pay for it; I am asking why his personal sense of morality allows for it. We all have a line we would never cross. The man on the street will not condone murder, maybe not even rape. But molestation or as it is sickeningly called 'eve-teasing', he is okay with. And therein lies our problem.
