Scary Headlines. We as as society have failed to protect woman's dignity

PritPal Kaur
This morning as I opened the newspaper the first headline was, 'only place where you can't see Aligarh is Aligarh'. Sating the fact that the film about the gay AMU professor Srinivas Ramachandra Siras will not open in Aligarh.
I am no authority to talk about the film or how it fared all over India as it is released this Friday. But what did strike me was that no theatre in Aligarh was ready to release this much awaited film.
We sure are a nation of suppressed emotions. We judge people by their sexual orientations. We do not look at people as individuals. No doubt we are obsessed with other people's sexual lives.

Why should we be bothered by what anyone does in their bedrooms? Why can we not simply judge people fro their work they do? Their ethical behaviour or for that matter their social behaviour in general public?
Why should we be concerned by someone's personal life as long as they are well behaved in public life and are participating well in the social fabric as well as at professional level in a functional manner?

Another headline that caught my eye was, 'German alleges rape by city auto driver.'
So here we are, another woman in Delhi is raped. The national capital, the city where sits the governments of the country and Delhi both.
The governments who had been staking large claims about safety and security of citizens especially women is need to have some answers ready. It's immaterial that the woman who has reported the crime is a foreigner. It's proved once again that women in Delhi are far from safe on the streets of national capital.
And why national capital alone?
Down the page another headline hits me straight in the eye, 'saw women dragged out of cars at Murthal'.
Yes, a couple of truck drivers came forward on Saturday to say that they had seen women being dragged out of cars by rioters at Murthal (Haryana) during Jaat reservation agitation on February 22. But no woman has come forward so far to report the crime against them. We all understand the reason. Police is waiting for the crucial forensic report of the evidence collected from the alleged scene of crime. But my thoughts are with the victims, if there are any.
I didn't have the courage to go through more of today's newspapers. I couldn’t open the inner pages to read the remaining parts of these news coverages in there. I am still shaken, of course not for the first time but umpteenth time.
What I ask myself and the keepers of our society, the people responsible for the law and order and of course the people of the society at large. Why is it the women who have to pay the price for being a woman?
Anywhere any rivalry happens the women have to bear the brunt. In villages if a section of society is angry over some issue they pick-up the women of the other section and rape them.
People riot. They cite different reasons for justifying their riots. Whatever the reasons are. Yet can any one ever justify rioting? And to top it all these rioters take the things further many fold. They pick up hapless women and rape them. Do they have any justification for this crime too?
A gentleman commented on social media that these rapists were not Jaats.
I asked him if he knew the people who committed rapes? Because if he claims they were not Jaats then obviously he knows them, and he should come forward to report as he has himself accepted the fact that the crime has been committed.
To my comment he responded that they were goons trying to take advantage of the situation created by agitators.
Are we simply a spineless society who has no sympathy or compassion for the weaker sections of the society?
That is if the women are considered to be a weaker section of the society. Despite the fact that she is the one who bears and rears children, cooks food, earns inside and outside the house. She studies in universities, sits in high chair, fights in army, serves in police, takes care of the sick in hospitals; name one profession where she has not proved her presence worthwhile.
Yet we call her the weaker sex and even after branding her weak we forget our basic duty towards this weaker sex. We forget and ignore to provide her safety.
We as as society have failed to protect woman's dignity. We as a society have also failed to recognize the ability of it's citizens on the basis of their work and not on the basis of their sexual orientation.
Are we as a society doing anything on this account?