Speak Up Against Physical Abuse

Speak Up Against Physical Abuse

It's NOT OK

It's just not OK. This feeling of fear, the shiver, the sweat, the pain and the tears, it's just not OK. Once again she was beaten up by her husband, this time not just his hands, it has levitated to the broom. The broom made from the leaves of the coconut, the tree we call 'kalpavruksh'. Has the level of beating gone up or actually has the level of the husband gone down, or still worse the medium to be beaten by.

What wrong did she do? Was it even justified to be treated this way. Why is it always the woman who has to go through this treatment. Why are we never taught to hit back? Why is it that her mother says it's OK for husbands to beat their wives. Maybe she has been beaten and maybe her mom too. Why does the tradition have to continue. Shouldn't it stop right where you feel it's not right? How many more generations will it take for women to realise it's not OK to be beaten up.

If you are abused raise your voice to speak against it rather than accept it. It's not OK to take abuse just lying down. It's not OK to keep quite. Women have to speak for herself and for every women around her to get the courage to open up. Every woman should be ready to support anyone she knows who is going through this physical abuse. Every woman should have to courage to speak about her physical abuse without the fear of being ridiculed or looked down upon. Come on girls, enough is enough. We talk about women empowerment and women freedom but it's not the lower strata of the society only that's exploited, it's also the women around you, maybe your own neighbour your own friend your own aunty or even the maid who works in your house or her daughter or even yourself.

Speak up before it's too late. Speak up as long as you can. Speak up before you die with your mouth shut and let this tradition of abuse pass on to your daughter. Speak up for this voice is yours. Speak up for the children who need to learn how their mother should be treated. Speak up for the sons who need to learn how to treat their wife n daughter. Speak up because that's the least we can do. A single voice can bring a revolution. Be the change you want to see.


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