Is being a girl a Crime? A 6 year old Raped (Topsia, Kolkata, India)
I no more feel safe. I feel like a criminal. Whose crime is being a girl. Every time I go out for college, tuitions or anywhere, my Mom says, “Be safe! Return home safely. Do not go here. Do not go there. Keep calling me at intervals. Pick up my call at once. Do not walk like this. Don’t be late. Come back home straight. Don’t go to some place with friends. Stay away from guys. Look down and walk don’t keep looking at people and attract them.” and many others. I feel like I’m not going to college but for a war. Every day, the moment I enter home safely, I feel like a victor. Entering home safely gives me a pleasure that is beyond the capability of words to explain. At times I feel why am I a girl? Couldn’t God make me a guy? Why is it that before leaving the house I feel like am going to enter into a world where anything wrong can happen to me anytime anywhere? Why do I feel that am stepping out of my safety zone once I leave my house premises? Why do I feel like a criminal who can be caught by the collar anytime and killed? What is my CRIME?
A “6” year old girl raped! Why? What was her fault that she had to face this torture? Did she want to get raped? Did she like getting raped? Did it give her some pleasure? Was her happiness and satisfaction involved in it? Was it done with her approval? Had she provoked the guy by exposing? Had she seduced the guy? Had she chosen to be a girl? Had she chosen to get raped? Had she chosen to face this torment? Had she chosen to live her life in shame and pain? Or was being a GIRL her ONLY mistake? Is the answer for all these is a “YES”?
The only fault she had was, she like chocolates, like any other girl, like me. And her liking for chocolates took her out of her safety zone. She went to buy herself some chocolates. And her life changed. She is now fighting death in government hospital. I think India should ban these chocolate factories and suppliers. Chocolates should be totally boycotted in India. May be then will the girls of India be safe. They won’t become a victim of those lusty men, while trying to satisfy their lust for chocolates.
I wonder what kind of a heart those men have. How shameless and heartless are these men. Often girls are blamed for getting raped as they are said to have exposed. Or to have shown some sign of arrogance. To my astonishment, did this 6 year old girl do the same which incited the guy? Did she even have that much sense to flaunt herself? Damn it! She JUST & JUST went out to get herself some chocolates. Hoping to return home safely in a couple of minutes jumping and hopping. She didn’t know it would land her up in some hospital.
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