Tag: masculinity

Mobilizing the male gender and sensitizing them to a different thesaurus of gender will stop the cycle. In a dynamic and diverse country like India, an overhaul as expected might take generations to penetrate through, but it is enough time to take the first step today. Remember the victim of the gruesome rape violence in Hyderabad, her body lying in ashes but do not hate the perpetrator. Look at the perpetrator as a victim of the vicious society and the notions attached to it. Think of him of someone who has grown all his life watching abuse in the family, watching all wrong power-dynamics and witnessing deprivation at every stage. His urge to execute the power, that we the society expected him to exercise, has turned into a rapist. Rapists are not born; they are created. I create them, and you create them. We build them