Only Rape Matters? || Acharya Prashant
Full Video: Rape and Retribution: Perspectives on Justice || Interview with Acharya Prashant (2019)
Transcript
00:00Woman is not allowed to work after marriage, nobody cares, it doesn't make headlines at all.
00:05A woman has unsafe work environment, doesn't matter, doesn't make headlines.
00:11A woman dies during childbirth, who bothers?
00:15Public spaces are not woman friendly, who bothers?
00:18Women themselves are getting conditioned to look at themselves as mere bodies, nobody cares.
00:25The number of women in higher education lags behind the number of men in universities,
00:31especially in professional education.
00:33That does not make for any sensational media report.
00:36A woman is murdered, even that is just a two inch thing in some newspaper.
00:42But if it is a sensational rape case, then the entire country joins in.
00:48Are we really concerned about women? Are we?