TEAM ELC AWARENESS PROGRAMME||RESPONSIBILITY OF MALE YOUTH TOWARDS FEMALE SOCIETY

 

Team ELC SURVEY AWARENESS PROGRAMME (HUMAN CHAIN AND RESPONSIBILITY OF MALE YOUTH TOWARD FEMALE SOCIETY )

Sourav Saktel founder of ELC who is leading the all campaign in India

HUMAN CHAIN 

A human chain is a form of demonstration in which people link their arms as a show of political solidarity. The chains can involve thousands of people

RESPONSIBILITY OF MAN TOWARDS THE HUMAN SOCIETY 

Our conversation started with what feminism is and progressed towards the issues women face in India. Some of the dominant problems we see in India are infanticides, domestic violence, rapes, accusations on women to provoke men with western apparel. This conversation is going to cover some of these issues. Feminism is not limited to these concerns and is so much more. But I think we should start somewhere.

INTERVIEWER Avishek Sharma 
FROM ELC TEAM

[Interviewer]Avishek Sharma : Why should I care about feminism when I treat all women with equal rights and respect?

[people said]: Just because you are not doing it, does not mean it is not happening and does not mean you should not care about it. It would have affected the women in your life at some point in their life, maybe not because of you (they are lucky and grateful) but someone else. Isn't that enough for you to care? 

[Interviewer] Avishek Sharma: Why do you say, "Everyone should be a feminist"? Don't you think an excess of feminism is bad for women (provided they are seen as haters) and to sink due to feminism does not make any sense? 

[people said]: The imbalance you talk about is because certain people who during the feminism uprising found an opportunity to exploit it for their benefits and started hateful comments on men, targeting them and blaming them. But you need to understand that feminism is not about hating men. A feminist is just trying to raise a voice to communicate the words women have been oppressed to say. And it can very well be the voice of a man. Like a father who fights the society for letting his daughter study in a co-ed school. Like a brother, who raises his voice when his sister or mother is disrespected. Are they hateful to men if they are raising their voices for women? No. Women have been fighting for their rights alone. It is time for men to join that battle.

 INTERVIEWER VARSA FROM 
ELC TEAM

[Interviewer]VARSA: What are your thoughts on the dressing sense of girls? Wearing short dress provokes men? Who should be asked to change?

[people said]: Dressing is a personal choice. No man is ever blamed for being topless such that it might provoke a woman. So why should a girl be blamed for wearing a crop top? Provocation is a reflex or a response that should be kept in check individually. It does not correlate with how someone is dressing.

[Interviewer]varsa: But don't you think humans have created a society and one must adhere to that?

[people said]: No. Humans created a society because we are social animals. We can't survive without social validation. We didn't make rules, levels, superiority, and minorities. They were somehow the byproduct of having different professions in society. But society needs to keep changing. Why do people adopt technology? The earlier societies didn't have the technology. If they can adopt new gadgets, why can't they adopt new rules, new norms, and new rights? Did a man create the whole society, alone? Men and women together made society. Hence, they need to be equal. Hierarchies have to be shattered for humanity to emerge.

INTERVIEWER AYAN FROM 
ELC TEAM

[Interviewer]AYAN: Pretty good answer. But still, India has a lot of old traditional and rural areas. So taking the security of a girl into concern, one should ask a girl to stop wearing short dresses in such places. Because, no matter how strong you make a law, it cant prevent a man from raping and, it is proved by data. What do you think?

[PEOPLE SAID]: Statistically, I don't think you can prove this relation. The stronger the law, the lesser is the crime. If you look at a few countries where the judiciary has a firm hold on policies and law-enforcement, they have the minimum crime rate and almost no rapes. It is not because the men in those countries are sexually dormant. It is because they are afraid to commit a crime. We need to work on law enforcement in our country. You can have as many laws as you want on paper, and in files, the ground reality is very different. Our country has laws, but weak enforcement on the ground because of hidden biases towards community and gender. A crime against a woman is considered less atrocious as compared to a crime against a man. Its time that instead of relying on all the women in our country to fix their wardrobe, we start working on fixing what's actually broken. Its more long-term, progressive, and stable.

[Interviewer]AYAN: It's a tricky question, though. Indian culture also comes into the picture. Many nationalists say short clothes are against our culture, and it is western influence. What do you think about that?

[PEOPLE SAID]: How is a crop top different from a traditional blouse? How is Sari a tradition and a mark of our culture? Culture comes with people. People change with generations, and so should culture. If you talk about culture, shouldn't we question men for wearing jeans too? The traditional attire was dhoti. 

If you look into the tradition of India, women did not wear a blouse too. It was only a piece of cloth to wrap the body. People believed that stitching cloth made it impure. So the apparel of choice was a long piece of cloth draped as a lower garment, a piece of cloth wrapped on the chest like a band and a piece covering one's shoulder and head. The same goes for the dhoti worn as a lower garment by men.

With advancements in technologies, humans learned to create colorful clothes cut into various shapes, which we call western influence. Its that simple. Humans' choice of apparel to cover their bodies can change according to time, but it should not change humanity and add barbarity in the name of culture.

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If we talk about these issues fiercely today, we can make India safer for women of not only our country but other countries as well; we can make it to the top in promoting women's rights