I just watched a girl get raped, murdered and her body thrown into the river. I cried as if it was someone close to me, while it was a movie. And the fact that worse than this happens every fucking day in my country sickens me to the core.
This is something every girl HAVE to deal with!! no matter what! We were born as objects, always neglected, as a burden to the family and society, our only purpose is to give pleasure through the hole and reproduce through the same, so that another man can come to existence and make us feel worthless, or worse we could give birth to another story suffering, both male, female and others.
Now I’m not talking about the different worlds like America and Europe, I wish I knew how it felt to live in those countries as a girl tho. No matter what you FUCKING say or scream about feminism out THERE!! you’d literally choke to death just by seeing the actual condition of a girl in my country.
I was born and raised in India. The home to diversity not just in people but also in gods and you know what? my country actually have so many gods that also include women, people in our country worship goddesses like laxmi (money), saraswati (music, knowledge, art), durga (power), kali (justice) there are so many of them but I won’t talk about those I don’t know much about and also it’s a vast sea.
My point is, a country that talks about respecting women because they believe that women are the form of these godeses, is the country where women are exploited like a FUCKING OBJECT. And don’t fucking tell me it’s not that bad just because you haven’t seen, felt, empathised or lived this hell!!
I know it’s bad out there too, but atleast they don’t tell you that you’re the god and then fuck your entire world. I was not going to write this, trust me, I hate dwelling in this shit because I know I could get really harsh and negative. Besides, only few people read, very few of them care and none of them have enough courage to initiate or even support the change, if the change is even possible at this point.
I have been on the edge since this morning because my aunt gave birth to her second daughter today, and everyone is so disappointed. I didn’t want to dig deep in my feelings while my heart just kept telling me to write but it makes me so angry, helpless and irritated that I can’t stop crying. And I hate crying about things like this, things that I hate so bad and can’t change or even raise my voice about.
I asked my father why are they so sad, why isn’t there a celebration or why are they refusing to talk to people, did they want a boy?
He said something I should always remember but my stupid brain keeps forgetting about:
“Everyone wants a boy, who would want a girl? we have to send them away, and if we don’t, the society asks questions and talks bad about the entire family, dowry and all the expense, nobody wants that”
This are the same people who take 9 days’ fast to impress a goddess (durga) and ask her to grant their wishes. At the end of that fast they look around for 9 girls to feed in place of the devi herself, under the age of 13 or before they get their periods because well, after that the girl is considered impure as if devi durga, laxmi or any of them they worship for their mean desires never had their puberty.
I did well, controlling myself and forced myself to NOT THINK about this, to stop this temptation of writing because then, I’d have to open the window that keeps all the feelings of helplessness, negativity, frustration, suffocation, worthlessness and suffering out.
But then I walk into the living room my sister is watching this South Indian film where a girl is taken from the girl hostel by telling her that her blood group is needed and she is sold out to people, the next day people find her dead body. And the worse part is not even that, the worse is that they all look up to the male lead to do them justice, it just makes you feel so weak that in this world of so called feminism and EQUALITY, a girl can’t do justice to herself and to people who unfortunately share the same gender.
And even worse thing is, in real life, in real India, it’s worse than the film!! a girl gets gang raped on a bus while people who rape her push glass rods inside her vagina, beat up her boyfriend, and throw her naked on the street half dead. She somehow gets hospitalized but dies at the hospital, the entire NATION is shocked, and angry, ironically she’s called “Nirbhaya” ( I have a lot to say about that too but I’ll just post the poem I wrote next time) and everyone asks for justice but one of the guy who raped her was underage at the time and a clever lawyer gets her case so it takes 7 years of pampering those criminals and encouraging other gutter minds out there to get justice, it was not even justice, because justice delayed is justice denied.
If it wasn’t for her mother who kept going back and forth from supreme court to high court 24/7. The girl would have been forgotten like SO MANY OF THEM!!
Trust me every single cell in my body is filled with disgust while writing this and my eyes are pooling tears not just because I empathise a little too much, but because I know for the fact that this could happen to me or my sister and my parents will not have enough courage to fight for that long (if at all), I know after that, not a single girl in my family, in generations, will be allowed to stand her ground and be independent. Because I’d be the example of “how girls should not have their own choices or voice because it gets them raped, killed along with their parents, who are alive but actually dead inside.” I’m very well aware of the fact that nothing is being done and denying justice is just spreading this gutter in such small minds and that affects OUR LIFE!!!
A doctor in Hyderabad gets raped and burnt, a 4 year old, 6 year old, 6 months old girl gets raped and killed! A mentally challenged girl gets raped by her own brother and his friends because he believed she was a burden. This shit keeps going on and the media is the worst because they would show nonsense, shitty, baseless, racist debates that never gets to a conclusion and only has the agenda to offend people, fill their minds with hate for other races, cast and political parties instead of actually doing what they’re there for.
Media is supposed to be the reflection of society but it’s 21st century, you’ll see the drama in the media and actual social issues in Anurag Kashyap’s and other great director’s movies which again gets censored because they don’t want to show the truth, they just want to manipulate the world and brain wash the country so that they could follow whatever their leader tells them to do like a cute little pet.
Rape has always been normal, it’s just that now we have realised that women can have a choice and this thought “of women being equal to men” just fucked everything up.
Now we get angry over women being treated as an object while it has always been happening.
When a 9 year old got forced to marry a 25 year old (or a 15 year old to 25 year old for that matter) and gave birth to a child the next year, what the fuck do you think happened?
We are just a hole to this world, they can stick their things inside us for fun, get babies from the same and just do whatever tf they want to do with us. Our bodies are public attractions as if only made for their fun, nothing else.
Sometimes I don’t even know what I’m fighting for, does this world even deserve to be saved? I really don’t think so, I hope apocalypse hits earlier, because I don’t want to be alive to see this fucked up world get anymore worse.
I usually get settled down towards the end of writing things down because it’s like getting all the trash out and somehow start sounding quite positive, but I could only feel more hopeless and numb on this subject. It’s a fact, it just sucks!
I know there is so much more that we are aware of, happening in this world every day but it’s more depressing to think that rapes are definitely still happening, voices are being silenced and we are deaf to of those voices that somehow find a way to reach us, because there is a louder noise around us.
I don’t really have a hope that it gets better anymore, but I hope that we find a way to deal with it and be strong enough to defend ourselves, not just to learn self defence but to be able to fight. Because this wolrd doesn’t seem to get any better.