One among the best curriculum the children of this decade are getting is, the awareness on good and bad touch. The lesson on addressing such issues and confronting them is the major need. When an individual is mentally trained on confronting the abuse, half of the problem is solved.
Recently, a youth from Kerala put a video expressing her experience on the abuse when on her bus journey. In the video, the lady shares on how a man enters to sit between two women, initiates physical contact through touch and later on reaches the level of masturbation putting out his private part. In another incident a girl shares her experience in train and takes its footages where a man sitting next to her dares to touch her through his arms and also using legs. The girl slaps the man and succeeds in putting him out of the train with the help of co-passengers. The video footage in her phone comes as a greatest witness on her behalf.
It may sound strange and uncommon but Men/Boys too are no exception to such abuse except for their ratio being less is in comparison to female counterparts. In the iconic city of Bengaluru too there are certain areas specified as dangerous for men. The reality is, the humiliation and exhaustion men witness on such streets by the opposite gender is to an extent of deteriorating the self dignity. In all issues revolving around physical abuse and seduction, there is a major reason which remain unaddressed. It is, the dare and fearlessness of victim to stand against the culprit.
A culprit will always carry an element of fear and the traces of his/her crime. Man and Women needs to know that, “You are/were not the only prey to such criminals. And so your silence means an indirect encouragement.” Know that, like the dogs which bark looking at vehicles will not know what to do if vehicle stops near them, the abusers too will stand ashamed when stood against them. An unexpected resistance leads to the downfall of the evil. And it will be the end of any more abuse by the individual. Adding on, If the resistance against the physical abuse turns out to be a movement, no individual shall dare to harm an individual’s dignity by means of cheap acts.
Let us learn to agitate, let us train to resist and let us free the evils from abuse. Speak for self, and speak for the one next door. Pledge to make your locality free from abuse.