Humanity is considered to be the greatest of all religions;
but are these preaching confined only to our books/speeches or they can also be
incorporated into our demeanour too? I was extremely shocked to read an article
that spoke about “Corrective rape” in South Africa. “Corrective rape” is a horrifying practice of
raping the people from the LGBTQ community to ‘cure ‘them of their sexual orientation. Raping someone
because he/she is gay/lesbian/bisexual or a transgender? There have been
several reports that speak of families knowingly enlisting men to rape their
lesbian relatives to “correct” their sexual orientation. Is this humane? This is nothing but a hate
crime. Sometimes our humanitarian homophobic inclinations as a society can exacerbate
fears and threats in lives of several others and make it a living hell.
Another article revealed about the plight of the students
belonging to the LGBTQ community who were raped on the college campus. College
life stories are all about education, friendships, independence and growing up
as an individual; but to a lot of students such stories are filled with episodes
of sexual assaults. A study by American Association of University women
revealed that more than 70 percent of the LGBTQ students had encountered sexual
harassment from the campus employees, faculty members and fellow students at
the college. The study also reads that such violent assaults on LGBTQ students
are perceived as a violent attempt to oppress those who are challenging social
norms around sexuality and gender. Moreover, even if assault cases are reported,
neither the hospitals not the universities/colleges are very equipped to deal
with rapes cases in the LGBTQ community. The scenario is no different when a
straight person reports rape. Our “temples of learning” are turning into
dungeons with such an alarming rate of sexual assaults on campuses.
The main purpose of writing this article is to create
awareness among the people that “Hate” should not be used as a weapon to ruin
someone’s life. If you don’t like someone for whatever reason, that’s your
personal opinion. But this hatred
does not grant you an advantage to rape the other person. One cannot commit
rape under the veil of correcting the LGBTQ community. Rape is Rape. It doesn't
matter whether you are LGBTQ or straight. At the end of the day you are a human
being and there cannot be a convincing explanation for committing rape.
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