NO WOMAN IS DESPERATE TO BE RAPED!

BY ADITHIMANASA

Dr. Asha Mirje is the woman who made news with her controversial statements.

• Girls should not wear clothes that provoke men.

• Girls need to keep in mind the time when they step out of their house.

• Girls need to be careful about their body language.

Agreed. Girls need to be careful about this; girls need to be careful about that; girls need to be careful about everything. Had she stopped at this, the issue wouldn't have been in the news. Being a gynaecologist and being involved in social service, the statements she made shocked everyone.

• Why did Nirbhaya go to the movie with her boyfriend late in the night? Why didn't she go for a morning or afternoon show?

• Nirbhaya invited her rapists!

Good lord! What a statement! Nirbhaya was not only raped, but also brutally tortured and thrown out of a moving bus. She was not even in a position to seek help. After battling for life in the hospital for many days, she breathed her last. Dr. Asha Mirje said that this lass invited rapists!

The fame chasing Dr Mirje. Photo courtesy: The Dailymail

Had Nirbhaya been Dr. Asha Mirje's daughter, would such words come out of Dr. Asha Mirje's mouth? Moreover Congress MP Supriya Sule sat next to Dr. Asha Mirje as if listening to a sermon. Even this female did not feel like interrupting Dr. Asha Mirje! What is to become of us women if women leaders make such horrendous statements? God save us!

• It was the fault of the photojournalist who was gang raped at Shakti Mills. What was the necessity to go to a desolate area alone?

The victim is a photojournalist! Was she supposed to click photographs and collect information from the comfort of her house?

What about women employees of BPO who work late night? Are they supposed to sleep in the office then? Are graveyard shifts meant for male employees alone? If that is the case, then Dr. Asha Mirje, are you going to provide an alternate day job to all those female workers? If you insist women not to step out of their houses then why are you out here to deliver speeches? Even you need to stay indoors! Else, it means that you are inviting rapists!

According to Dr. Asha Mirje, hairstyles and dressing provoke men. If so then why don't rapists spare infants and school kids? Do children wear provocative dress? Why are churidhar/salwar kameez and burqa clad women eve-teased? Do those women hold placards that read "COME, RAPE US”? Or are such comments written all over their face? How dare you question Nirbhaya's character? Doctor madam, you have no right to point fingers at any rape victim or talk about her morale. You should be ashamed of making such statements. Remember, you too are a woman!

It's the mindset of the rapist and not the clothes on the victim's body that need to be changed. Gentlemen don't get provoked. Rapists, sexual offenders, molesters and eve teasers don't need a reason to get provoked.

First comment and then apologize. Why make such sensitive statements in the first place?

Our answer to those who validate rape. Photo courtesy: Reuters

Dr. Asha Mirje, you crave for limelight. You need to first get treated for this disease of yours. NO WOMAN IS DESPERATE TO GET RAPED! You call yourself a social worker? Then you must instill courage in women, not scare them all the more!

It is not the rape victim but women like you making senseless statements that are disgrace to the female clan.