Assault

It is very disheartening to note, we talk about everything but not the issue. There is a group of people, and mind you, this is a very big group, which immediately starts commenting on why do women work, why do women move about at such odd hours, why do women invite such things (as if women go around with invitation cards), and silly comments on the IT industry as a whole (as if the assaulters would let go of this girl had she been in some other industry), and then a group shouting, educate your boys to behave properly.

We are discussing everything but not the core issue. It is security of the people that is of concern here. The Delhi rape case occurred in spite of a man accompanying the girl. This is a slap on the myth that you are safe when there are boys around you. In fact, boys invite trouble if their group has some girls in it.

Sexual assault - only on girls? I beg to differ; boys are equally susceptible to sexual assaults. Only difference is that the assault will not be from a girl, but from another boy. Let us face the truth. Sons are at stake too not just daughters. There are so many boys out there who would not talk about how they were sexually abused, because we just don’t listen. We think only girls feel ashamed of such things, but every decent human being would be equally ashamed. It is a myth that boys just don’t care, it hurts a boy at least, as much as it hurts any girl.

I would be equally worried if my dad, my brothers, my husband or my sons come home late.