No matter how they are dressed, whether they have had a drink or two, or in this case travelling solo, women are clearly never inviting harassment. Then why the tendency to victim-blame every now and then?

Why does always the blame come down to women? In any scenario whichever gender is on the receiving end, the blame and anger are always put on women

Until the collective consciousness of the nation is pulled out from the clutches of misogyny, we honestly cannot expect the crimes against women to decline.

 If only men were brought up instilled with the idea to respect women and not harass them, there would be no need to control women’s lives.

Blaming the woman is just the society’s excuse to cover up for the culprit’s grave mistake, toxic and criminal upbringing and the patriarchal aspect of the society that considers women as the cause of a man’s ‘desires’ to overflow.

Statements by Chief Minister on Goa gangrape are troubling since, yet again, we have a person in power holding the victim accountable instead of the perpetrator.

Khan spoke on the concept of ‘purdah’ that states a woman should conceal themselves from men and strangers. He justified it by claiming that the practice is to remove “temptation” from society as “not everyone has willpower”.

Apparently, the blame for criminal offences such as sexual assault or stalking lies on everything and everyone, but entitled behaviour among men.

Women are abused because they choose the wrong men to spend their life with and not because men have patriarchal conditioning of dominating their female partner?

It is repulsive to victim blame child sexual abuse survivors and call them “aggressors” in their own assault and yet it isn’t a rarity. Even those who are assigned with the task to protect us and ensure survivors of sexual crimes get justice aren’t immune to harbouring such thoughts. This leads to grievous consequences like […]