Saturday, December 29, 2012

The psychology behind rape

The latest outburst of rape as a violent incident has taken over cyberspace and the world, with its attention drawn towards the death of the rape victim, a medial student, recently. Ever since this gang rape in a bus in Delhi was reported, and now after her subsequent death, people have awakened into a phase of blasphemous anger towards the six men who have allegedly committed the crime. What we seem to have forgotten is the fact that there were many other women in India who have died of sexual abuse, unfortunately, unlike in this incident, out of the purview of the media and public attention of this manner. Violent sexual outbursts as such are an outcome of several meta factors in human existence. This incident should not to appeal "to run away from the female factor" or to merely insist upon the  "protection women" but should reach out for a fundamental change in the view of the female body and subject. We require a paradigm shift in the way women are to be perceived in the world. It also requires a downright and fundamental change in the approach we have towards our surrounding environment. Key words that boost the world nowadays and its nations such as protection of the environment, green revolution, co-existence, mutual harmony (and so the list extends) have forgotten that there should be fundamental link to the human aspect as well, in which both man and woman are indispensably linked and seen as cohabitants of existence in the surrounding material, and environmental world. Like the death drive with which man is said to be innately associated with, and cultured away from, factors that pressure man into such violent acts should be removed into order to actually better society.

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