Gender Equality

 

Amit Deshpande, gender equality activist: We need a movement like #MenToo because crime has no gender

Hello, friends today we are going to present views on Activist Amit Deshpande article which is published in Times of India 22nd May 2019 Edition, in which he highlights men, as men also are victims of gender equality of our society where people always think men are always wrong and even when girls/women made false allegations or report about harassment and rape from men then our society assumes that it is true based on women allegations only whether it is true or false. 

Men are not disposable or collateral damage that should be sacrificed at the altar of the idea of protecting women. Talking about their rights is as important as that of women. #MenToo is as important as #MeToo

Since the Nirbhaya gang-rape case in 2012, there have been faster convictions and stringent actions taken against the rape accused. There has also, however, been an increase in the number of false rape cases being filed, to the extent that courts have given judgments asking the women’s commission to train their counselors to not encourage false cases.

Filing a false rape case, when a man ends a relationship or refuses the advances of a woman, should be held equivalent to an acid attack on a person by a spurned lover. If we can sympathize with those victims, it would be hypocritical of us to be blind to the victims of these false cases. Not all scars are visible, but they could be equally destructive. Some men lose their careers, reputation, livelihood, and in some cases, even lives, because of such false cases.

Most cases of false rape have an out-of-court settlement. There is a huge incentive – extortion – to frame an innocent man in a false rape case. If a man has violated a woman, he should be punished; monetary settlement or withdrawal of case should be disallowed for such heinous crimes. There is no penalty on a woman filing a false case. This encourages false accusers to lie with impunity under oath. The woman should receive at least the same punishment as prescribed for the convicts. Most importantly, withholding the name of the accused until conviction would take away any advantage these false accusers have, by threatening innocent men with tarnishing their reputation.