Heard anything? Or better put – read anything? Sunday Times of India (13 Jan ‘08) reports that as per a Delhi court – “Sex after false promise of marriage is rape”. Even if I were not a feminist, I’d have taken a sigh of happiness thinking that one more ill has been squashed by the honourable magistrate.
Blame it on the too-tempered-with grey cells; I’m tempted to look at another angle of this story. Does this premise mean that if a couple plans to tie the knot, and then has physical relationship; the guy is in a soup if he then wants to back out (especially if the damsel has read Sunday ToI in question)! No Sir – I am not against THIS judgment as the case facts clearly indict the man here. But what if some other case comes up which is as per the example I’ve quoted above? Does this mean that it’s only the guy who cannot back out of a relationship; and that the girl sure can? Does this also mean that in a society where premarital sex is still a taboo and a matter of guilt, the responsibility of maintaining this moral equilibrium is entirely on the man? So if that is so, is the court trying to say that the fairer sex is weaker or powerless? And if that is so, doesn’t THIS line of thought account for gender bias?
Do I now have some votes from the feminists?
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