Women should join martial classes to fight rape

By WILLIAMS MAGUNGA

The social tabloids have been awash with discussions about an alleged festival in Asia. A festival that has apparently become a culture in India dating decades back in time. A blogger, probably in search of readership, posted an article about a Punjab Rape Festival in India that legitimises the rape of young women of ages seven to 16. This carnival apparently attracts the male folk in India to rape out demons from these tender souls — an exorcism ritual that seeks to sanctify girls of the evil spirit of cheating and immorality. To drive home the point, there was a gory picture of naked men with long terrifying dreadlocks from here to Timbuktu, running after something. Probably some scared maiden

Debauchery

When I came across the website, I was inclined to believe it as true, partly because I have no Indian friends, and partly because of the fact that India is the cradle land of the notorious Karma Sutra movies; which are really blue movies in the disguise of sex education clips.

The last time India and rape were used in the same sentence, a girl had been forcibly fed the forbidden fruit in public. Other sickening stories are peddled online about the rape victims being forced to marry their attacker. In the full view of everyone, and it did not arouse any outrage until someone wrote about it.

Thus in my head, I thought it is an everyday thing for any Indian man who is too broke to pick up a hooker, and too weak to handle his debauchery, to grab a woman and suit his feeble needs by force.

Awareness

However, nothing could be further from the truth. The author of the defamatory hoax article cleared the air saying there is no such event as a Punjab Rape Festival. The story originated as a satirical article; an activism piece he wrote to raise awareness about the plight of young rape victims in India.

And in as much as the author’s means were unorthodox, his heart was in the right place. The drumbeats for extinguishing rape cases have not yet been beaten enough, and that is why I am on the author’s side on this one, regardless of his ulterior motives.

I have a seething contempt for anyone who forces a woman to lay with him. I think it’s yellow. Thank God for technology, there are those thingamabobs that women nowadays place inside their birth canals that are designed to grab any unwelcomed organ getting its way inside. What’s worse is that it takes surgery to have it removed. Failure to which might result to the amputation of the assailants nether organ. These devices are, however, only deterrent. Their existence only serves to scare horny, but broke men from forcing entry into innocent women’s privates.

In the meantime, however, the womenfolk will have to join martial arts classes for defense purposes. In Kenya, even the old women are prospective victims, and they, too, are taking karate classes. I think the girls in India also need to follow suit, just in case. You never know.