Blank Noise is a wake-up call

I guess I have been way too far away from bloggerland these days, because I am only just getting to read about the blanknoise project. And you know what... it fills me with great disgust at myself, for I have been so oblivious to all this, in spite of having seen it all happening first-hand. I read so many accounts of hapless women, nay little girls, who could not even understand what it's all about, let alone fend for themselves. And this is how they are introduced to the concept of being a woman. The very fact that all these brave individuals are able to lead normal, highly successful lives, stand up for themselves and speak out, and want to do something about it, is a testament to the strength of mind that women possess.

I had been fiddled around with once, by a homosexual sitting next to me in a movie theatre for the duration of the movie. I was a young boy then, and ever since and till very recently, I had not been able to consider gay people with the same respect as straight ones. I can't imagine how hard it must be for women to even live with men in India, after having gone through some of the most demeaning ordeals.

How can this be happening at such a large scale and be so wholly ignored by our lot, at a social and administrative ( hah, forget political ) level? Are we all silently consenting to it? No? Well, the only way to oppose it, is to actively pursue and destroy this evil. Yes, it is evil. It is as evil as it gets. Today, killing the freedom of an individual is as good as burning him/her alive. Throwing unnecessary and ugly impediments in the way of a normal life, just because there is a perception of power over another, is the mindset of uncivilized brutes, and does not behove anyone in this day and age. We owe it to our womenfolk who have borne such torture, and have had the great minds and hearts to raise, and take care of us men.

I am looking at women in a new light today, and what Wodehouse once said about women feels so, so apt -
"At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies."