Oh what fun! The intestine of a 23 year old girl has been dug out
of her abdomen with a metal rod. It has been thrust in and out of her vagina so
many times in a feat of sexual excitement and delight that a ‘rope like thing’
had come out from her insides, one of the gang-members said. Well, it was
absurdly enough, her intestines. Now the girl is dying and even if she is made
to survive somehow, she would never be able to eat again except through
intra-venous means. And the stupid girl still went on to say, as her brother
had told a daily, “Mother, I want to live!” Ah, the comedy of it all, the sheer
fun!
Now masculinity can cheer again. The rod has done what the phallus
could not.
Sometimes I really do not know whom to feel sorry for— the women,
or the unfinished and unrealized project of patriarchy. The project started
off quite well, actually. For generations, patriarchy was successful in carving
out a niche for its invincible power-status in all possible spheres of life. It
was a skilled process of inculcating patriarchal values inside humankind in
order to control and regulate any opposition that might come in the way. That
is why husbands would carry on marital rape at ease, mother-in-laws would find
satisfaction in harassing their daughter-in-laws, and even mothers would feel
it natural to inflict upon their daughters, the same shackles that she had
inherited from history. But then slowly, the times changed. Female foeticide
was prohibited. Marrying off daughters before eighteen was made illegal.
Property laws were reformed. Education increased. Women went to work. Women got
money. Women were given a voice and taught to use it. It was a terrible time.
Men felt wronged. They had expected much, much more from patriarchy. It was as
if the son has been disinherited from his ancestral home. With patriarchy
failing to guard its power motives anymore, men decided to come into the open
and establish their position of the penis-holder themselves. So they decided to
perform exemplary violence in order to scare women. Unlike the beautifully
shrewd system of patriarchy which had realized the effectiveness of
manipulation and diplomacy in this changed social scenario, the stupid men got
impatient and bloody. Biting of flesh, cutting off of breasts, scooping out
insides of women through their vaginal opening etc. became their ridiculous
modus operandi.
But really, dear men, it’s okay to be a man. Even in this world!
Please do realize that you are not lagging behind in every sphere of life!
Girls wearing mini-skirts, or the women you call Feminists, wearing ethnic kurtis
and big bindis and arguing all the time are still not as threatening and
powerful as you imagine them to be. They are almost as much objectified and
kind of helpless right now as they were before, only in a different garb. The
female reservations, the divorce laws, the emancipation of women, they are all
meant for you guys, stupid! Don’t you see what patriarchy is doing? It’s
increasing complicity in your fellow women so that they feel satiated and
pacified enough to stop resistance. So please try to realize that you are still
being kept in a dominating position by patriarchy. Don’t feel so scared of
women as to attack, rape and kill them. Always remember, that complicity of
these women is your greatest weapon, not their violation and death. You
shouldn’t be giving that up in exchange for some silly fear-libido-animosity
induced vagina-digging violence. Help patriarchy in maintaining its updated
strategies, don’t be a spoilsport and demand the blatant power-exhibition
enjoyed by your fore-fathers. They are outdated and useless in the current
socio-political situation.
Stop affirming and re-affirming your sense of masculinity like
this, men! We anyway believe that you do have the magic wand called The
Penis. And still, when you try to prove that repeatedly by violating and
destroying a woman’s being, it just goes on to show how utterly unsure you are
of your masculinity to yourself. Don’t make the people laugh at your insecurity
and beat you to death at the same time. Have some faith in the project of
patriarchy. It is unfinished but still on. Cooperate and help to move it
forward. Take off your profile photos from Facebook for a while. Join protest
marches. Write fierce Twitter messages and blogposts asking for death penalty
and castration. You might be mentally undressing and having sex with every
woman you see. You might be vigorously supporting the decency-indecency
dichotomy associated with women. You might even be hurling obscene comments on
passing women for fun. But please take care to show your outrage at this rape
incident. Take care to sensitize people around you through social networking
websites, adda sessions and candle-light vigils. Do all what you
possibly can till this news, like every other, finally loses its importance and
is cast into oblivion by the media. This is what happens. This is what will
always happen.
All you have to do is be a little patient. Society has already started
hating and laughing at your impatience. If you don’t try hard enough, why, you might
as well risk being looked upon as that poor, virtually castrated, emasculated
sex that uses violence as weapon for the lack of a real phallus.
