In India is there any
commonality between pisspitting[i]
and molestation/rape? Strangely ‘YES’; more than ninety percent of both
these ‘cheap’ acts are done by boys/men. Is it logical to say that in India where
men are spitting less, incidence of rapes are less? It may not be so worthwhile
a hypothesis to investigate. The argumentative correlation I am trying to draw
looks too far-fetched but it highlights the basic flaw in upbringing of boys
growing into men in Indian society. Are we telling the boys/men – ‘Do NOT spit on road’, and ‘Do NOT touch a girl inappropriately without
her consent’. The parents, teachers, elders, leaders and societal role
models have failed on both fronts in teaching basic good human traits and civic
sense to a large section of Indian men, since their young age and more so in
their youth.
Why do men rape? Simply said – for men - it is to deal with one’s
own acquired nature. The common conclusions are that it could be expression of
individual power over other human being, act of physical violence as a gratifying
source to vent out piped-in anger (Of
what?).
