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#ABUSE -Why is this word more specifically linked with Women ?#AtoZChallenge2018

Come April and the month long blogging festival #AtoZChallenge2018 begins.  My theme for this challenge is #Astitva in which I would be sharing many aspects of a woman’s existence . I would be sharing my thoughts combined with some fiction which form  part of our surroundings .

#AtoZChallenge2018

The alphabet of the day is A .

A stands for :  ABUSE

Abuses are wounds that may not show up on the body but are deeper and more hurtful than anything else . Why is this word ‘Abuse’ more specifically linked with women ?

A piece of fiction on Abuse

 

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Above is the pic I choose to write about ABUSE.

Reena was a psychologist who was working as a counsellor in a multinational company . All the company employees and her friends too always approached her with their problems and every time , she resolved them with love and concern . Her positive attitude was always talked of in the office and it definitely helped maintain a healthy atmosphere in the office .

But at her home , the psychologies just didn’t sync . Her positive attitude was  badly dominated by HIS negative all the time . She managed to strengthen herself   enough  that the tension and the insult  she often  faced at home was never  reflected at  her workplace.

But today , Rajiv and his toxic drinks reflected  their wild beast character  and that too in his wife’s office . He just couldn’t tolerate to see  Reena  behaving  so friendly with her colleagues . She was  physically , verbally and  emotionally abused  by her man in front of all the office staff . And she laid helpless , burning  in the smoky egoistic masculinity .

My thoughts on the word ‘Abuse’

Right from childhood till the end , women suffer many kind of abuses . Starting from physical Abuse , emotional Abuse , social Abuse , she also suffers the worst of all,  that is  sexual abuse . We may have progressed a lot in the 21st century but this so called progress is  making even the infant girls become victims of highest form of sexual abuse .  Almost  daily I can read of a rape in the newspaper . So is this what Progress is ? Why are men hardly victims of sexual abuse ?

Why is a woman not clothed in the same dignity as a man ?

Why is woman always seen differently ?

Why is She looked upon as a sex object ?

The modern woman of today may be alert for her rights and security but still she does face the claws of  Abuse at many points .  Some women have become bold to shout  out the things but some still  prefer to be quiet . Some still make compromises even after getting abused . Why ?  Is SHE to be defined always as per HE ?  When will we have minds free from bias ?

#WhenWillWeChange

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