It is not her fault if she gets raped by few morons in a moving
bus at 9:00 in the night
It is not her fault if her trusted friend takes an advantage
of her drunken state
It is not her fault if a retarded throws acid at her for
rejecting his proposal
It is not her fault if she is tricked by her 1st
standard teacher to lift her skirts up
It is not her fault if her heart urges to see her parents and siblings, after marriage
It is not her fault if she gets mocked in her new house for
not bringing enough gifts
It is not her fault if she gets raped in her own house every
night
It is not her fault if she is slapped because he didn't like
the food she prepared
It is not her fault if her partner divorces her alone with three children, for another woman
It is not her fault if she can never bear a child for health reasons
It is not her fault if her children have poor manners or bad
grades at school
It is not her fault if her daughter chooses to marry someone
outside their religion
It is not her fault if many prospective grooms reject her in search of beauty or money
It is not her fault if she is killed in the dark because they were expecting HIM
I am tired of reading media articles in newspapers about assaults on women outside the house, in which a woman is blamed for her dress, for being out or for her naive attitude... I am also tired of listening to family & neighborhood daily anecdotes, where a woman is blamed for marital conflicts, her husband's extra marital affairs, her children's ill-manners, her own health conditions..... There is always a line between victim and culprit, but when it comes to a misfortune in a woman's life, on roads or inside her own house, we conveniently breach the line and make her part of the crime itself. When she needs our empathy, we raise our eye brows...
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