Feminists Lack Real Heroines | #RohtakSisters To #ZairaWasim

Off with their heads;
Off with their heads.
Cried the red queen.
We would fix the blame later.

The above lines from “Alice in Wonderland” ring much too often in my ears whenever I see mob justice and people glorifying it and when the media is satisfied beating drums just to assist the brainwashing of the innocent.

At the time when #Feminism is the new #TimePersonOfTheYear, in India, the hashtag #ZairaWasim is the toast of the town. The daughter of India was purportedly molested on a Vistara flight by a person massaging her neck and head with his toe. She even had a picture of protruding feet to support her claim. Like other usual scenarios, whenever a girl cries, MOLESTATION and appends TEARS to it, the feminists, like a pack of wolves baying for blood, start howling in unison.

And whenever someone tries to counter such bizarre claims in a reasoned manner. Feminists go to the media and call it Victim Blaming or Victim Shaming. “Don’t we all have Daughters?” asked a feminist, “like our daughters, SHE is also the daughter of the country”. (Stress on SHE is not intended.

And here is my response, my dear feminist:

We all have daughters. And we should teach our daughters to stand up for themselves. Fight the menace of eve teasing, catcalling, molestation and attempt to rape then and there. Even if one is scared, a protest has to be made. In a plane full of people. At a place where Airline Staff can change seats. At a place that is one of the most secure, if you don’t raise your voice against any such act, you are not only condoning it but also encouraging such behaviour.

The last thing we should teach our daughters is to run after five minutes of fame in the National Media with sordid stories of how they missed being in the #MeToo space, but they should be accorded their rightful space now.

I was left stunned the other day too, when the woman, a law student from Kerala, who first claimed that he had chopped off the penis of a Godman in Kerala because he raped her for many years, retracted her statement. It is the same incident in which the Kerala Chief Minister had called it a “Courageous Step”, and all feminists had rallied behind her. The Police were made to drop charges against the said law student.

A few months before that, a video of two Rohtak girls beating one or more co-passengers in a moving roadways bus went viral. Haryana Government promptly declared a cash reward of Rs. 31000/-. It also declared that these two sisters would be felicitated on Republic Day. Too eager to please further, the Haryana Government suspended the driver and conductor of the said bus. DCW also promptly declared a prize for them. Yes, DCW, Delhi Commission of Women, is awarding girls from Haryana for some acts they have done in Haryana.

The incident took place allegedly when these girls were eve-teased. However, the video does not show anything before the girls beating these men.

A day later, more news surfaced which countered the claim of these sisters by way of so-called eye-witnesses, who said that the girls were not eve-teased but the fight was about seats. Another video of these two sisters beating a man in the park also went viral. The new video also does not show any eve-teasing, just these two girls beating a man.

Then came the snippets of various one-liners these two girls gave on various media channels. One girl in particular said she was teased more than 2000 times; yes, 2000 times. And that they have beaten many men. Rather than proving the incident against them, they are questioning the others to prove the theory of dispute on the seat. Another baffling issue is why the recordings always start when these girls start beating the men, and they don’t try to capture the incident of eve-teasing.

The above two incidents reminded me of two other incidents of the past. “Nisha Sharma” and “Pooja Chauhan”, while the former, created a stir at her wedding, getting her prospective groom and would have been a mother-in-law. In the latter case, the Police arrested not only her husband and Parents-in-law but also the neighbours. Both of these were hailed as heroines by feminists. Nisha gained international glory and even had a chapter dedicated to her in primary school. Pooja generated enough support and money for her fight.

However, the most unfortunate part is that in both cases, the accused were later set free by the courts as the cases against them could not be proved, thus showing that the arrests were unnecessary and arbitrary and just to satiate the demands of these women, who took to novel ways of protesting.

That brings forth an important question. And I am not talking about the harassment of the men in this case. The important part is what happened to the cash rewards and fame that these women generated on false premises. Were they asked to return the same? No.

A soldier dying fighting the terrorists goes through a minimum of 8 levels of recommendations and committees before he is awarded a medal/ award. (The only exception in my memory would be awarded to 26/11 martyrs, where warring factions of the political class started the generosity in a bid to gain political mileage.) Then why do these women, just by raising their voices, get so much dole, money, and fame

Maybe the real reason lies in the lack of genuine heroines amongst feminists. Feminism, which started as a movement for equal opportunities for equal efforts, has degenerated into feasting on presumed “vulnerability”. Liberation has given way to narcissism; opportunity has given way to entitlement, and grievance has turned into rebellion. Feminists now don’t want to work; they want to be “taken care of”. And as there is no glory in “being taken care of”, they are too eager to find narcissist heroines. Real or Make-belief. Does not matter. Rebellion, whether justified or unjustified, has to be celebrated. These heroines are anyways to be dispensed with after paying a small token to garner a bigger share of entitlement for themselves.