In December 2012, the Delhi bus gang rape case shocked the world when Jody, a female college student studying at Delhi University, was gang-raped and beaten by six people in the car, and eventually died as a result.
Jody was 23 years old that year, reading the medical department she longed for, dreaming of becoming a doctor.
That year Jody was brutally gang-raped, left on the side of the road with a broken stomach, scarred, and naked, with only one person to help.
The daughter flower, which was supposed to bloom, withered forever on that nightmarish night.
Daughter of India
After watching the British BBC documentary "Daughter of India" (which was banned in India), I could not speak for a long time, because every word of this film made my heart ache and shock.
At the beginning of the film, Jody's parents have wet eyes and tell a little bit about Jody – Jody's name means "bright" in Hindi – born in a patriarchal India, Jody's parents still have infinite love and high hopes for her, in order to provide her with education, they even sold their ancestral land.
With Jody's death, an otherwise beautiful family is shattered.
Jody's dad said, "We thought, what else could we do without our kids?" ”
But when the picture comes to the prison, the private bus driver, Mushke, who committed the murder and rape, is justified and has no intention of repentance.
He put it this way: "Flies don't sting seamless eggs, a decent girl shouldn't be hanging out at nine o'clock at night, and women are more responsible for rape than men." ”
He confidently declared that "men and women are not equal" and smiled, as if he were convinced that this sentence was the truth.
After destroying a girl, he is so laid-back, in stark contrast to the pain and heartbreak of Jody's parents.
In the words of our parents and friends, we pieced together the image of Jody— a hard-working and studious girl who worked hard to earn money to study, sleeping only three or four hours a day.
She was only one step away from her dream when she was killed— she had just finished her midterm exams and was about to enter her internship, and to celebrate, she and her friends went to the theater to see "The Fantasy Drift of Young Pi".
She did nothing wrong, but countless voices accused her of "not showing up on the street like food", "not going out with male friends", "not not coming home at night"...
They said: "She should not resist, she should wait quietly for rape." ”
Even the perpetrator's defense lawyers, the spokesmen for a country's laws, say with conviction:
"We have the best culture, but in our culture, there is no place for women."
"Woman means 'sex' to men."
"A girl is as precious as a jewel and should not appear on the street, and since she is on the street, it is inevitable that the dog should not be blamed for taking it away."
"If my daughters and sisters had premarital sex, I would be very sure to drag them into the farmhouse and pour gasoline on them in front of the whole family and set them on fire."
After the incident, people took to the streets to protest for Jody, and the long-suppressed anger of countless people turned into a cry of "justice" and "freedom", which resounded throughout new Delhi, known as the "capital of rape".
But the police tried to end the march with sticks, water guns and tear gas.
"It's a very, very safe city."
They covered the mouths of those who spoke, ignored the painful blood and tears, and whitewashed a false peace.
But the rebellion did not end there, but continued to boil for a month -
The loud noise finally pushed for a little change, but the pain had been cast forever.
Sin, your name is ignorance
Looking back at these criminals – they all came from slums, at the bottom of society, poverty, ignorance, numbness, violence, that's the norm of their lives.
The brave are angry and draw their blades to the stronger; the cowardly are angry, but they draw their blades to the weaker.
They are poor, ignorant, and hateful, but at least within the framework of a patriarchal society, they can use violence to oppress an innocent woman.
Ignorance, and the conventional, unequal status of men and women, is the dullness and original sin of Indian society.
And the same tragedy, from Jody's death to the present, continues to play out all over the world.
Tan Weiwei "Xiao Juan" lyrics
—The rapist's defense lawyer says women are like gentle, delicate flowers in an interior that should grow; men are sharp, hard thorns.
But our human dignity should have come before gender— no matter what gender we are, we should not be trampled on or arbitrarily defined.
Regardless of gender, we are complete individuals, a tough flower, with our own thorns.
Let's pursue respect, inclusion, self-esteem, self-love. Speak up for the weak and help equality.
May we all reap true equality and respect in the future.
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