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The Abnormality of Normalcy



In today's world we tend to take a lot of things to be normal. While there can be certain conventions, there should be a demarcation.
We tend to overlook or shall I say the society likes to ease matters by looking at them through a forced normal perspective? For instance, some find it very normal to urinate in the public and spit too while in our country there is a system of imposing fine on people who do such. But if we find someone doing so we stop not that person. Good reasons to back the forceful oblivion are; why bother until something is affecting me directly or why at all start a brawl with some person, who like many, thinks urinating in the streets is as normal as saving an injured animal!
Well we might turn a blind eye towards such issues and run a risk of the society turning into a huge public toilet. But certainly we cannot turn blind to the risk of this society turning into a huge hell where women feel not safe.
In India, it has become a cliché to discuss the social issue of women's safety. Let us try to look into the possible reasons which lead to such heinous crimes such as molestations, eve teasing and rapes.
As the title mentions, Abnormality of Normalcy, let me draw your kind attention towards the attitude of the society towards the sensitive issue of women's security. Whenever there is a reported case of a rape or molestation we tend to raise issues like the girl was moving around late in the night or attired she was in a skimpy outfit probably revealing all her assets. But let me ask you all a very simple question. Cannot the men be a little saner to admire the beauty that she is revealing and not take it as a provocation for them to jump on her and tear her apart both physically and mentally?
It is shocking at the same time to learn that a few in our society or rather shall I say sparing a few in our society, the complete society thinks that it is quite normal for a boy to peep into a woman's top in order to get a clear view of her bosom. I say it is as dirty a thing to do as necrophilia. We, by thinking this act to be normal, are provocating our own desires which otherwise should be curbed.
Often I find people saying "Bass dekha hi to, kuch kiya to nahin." Hillarious!
Such a thing is considered to be normal only when it is done towards a girl, who is not immediately attached to us, but I again would like to take the liberty of asking yet another question; what would it be like if a pair of eyes is fixed on the cleavage of your own sister?
And when I am mentioning time and again 'the society' I am consciously pointing my finger at both the genders.
I am sorry to say but a girl's attire does not lead to such crimes lest we wouldn't have heard news of even girls of five or six years being brutally raped. At the same time it is also not correct to put a bar at a woman's staying out post sunset and tagging it a reason for the rise in rapes lest we wouldn't have heard of a case such as the Hetal Parekh rape case.
Why cannot the definition of 'being normal' change? What we have come to accept as normal is what is leading to the rise of such barbaric incidents and not mobile phones as some politicians want us to believe.
Let a few normal matters swap places with their counter abnormality and see whether the scenario changes a bit. I am, yet again not saying that this is an absolute solution to the problem, but definitely it is one of the ways to decrease the current situation.
God has given us all sorts of emotions but at the same time He has given us a rational brain to think and use them rationally and not be a slave to our desires, specially of the bad ones.

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