A dystopian tale spun from my comments sections
Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely intentional
The year is 2031.
We want murder. But not a quick finish — alas, death is too quick an escape for monsters. A slow, painful torturous death — Hang them, you say? No, no, too easy. Pack them off to terrorists and rape them? Rape them over and over. Yes, yes, we’re getting there. We’re salivating with joy pulsating through our veins, humming along to the deafening roars of crowds singing in unison. It is a victory. We have won. We have done it.
The rapists will be bled to death tonight.
There’s going to be a show! (A betting show, beta!) We must wear our best clothes.
The Parks have been bidding all month for hosting it. All the park animals have been starved. We will watch the monsters fight real monsters. (Oh it’s going to be a great show, beta, just you wait and watch!) No clothes, no weapons. After all, that’s how they finished her, didn’t they? That poor, innocent girl. She was our Daughter, did you know? All of our Daughter. The more gruesome she suffers, the greater we love.
We have placed out bets on the lion Simba to tear out the monster’s intestines (that lion looked very ferocious in the ads on TV no beta?). We have the expensive front row tickets. And we must send our daughter back before it gets too dark. There are monsters lurking everywhere. Best she stay locked up at home to stay safe. (Suno, sahi kaha na maine?)
We’re very excited about the show because there aren’t a lot of them nowadays. The judges don’t send a lot of monsters to the Parks. Things have changed. The judges have all become soft now, or maybe they always were, I’m not sure. It’s almost as if they’re being extra cautious while sending the monsters to the Park. The consequences of convicting the wrong person are higher, they say. What nonsense! What happens when the judges don’t convict the monsters because of their fear of the Parks? The monsters get away! (Going scott-free, beta, oh the horrors!) But in this case, we’ve caught the right people! Off to the Park they will go now!
Acha, you know, Anurabh uncle? Arrey, he owns that big company next to pappa’s office? IIT graduate! Some randi has said he raped her. How is it possible, you tell me? Arunabh uncle isn’t a monster! He’s a well-educated, respectable man, a real man; real men don’t rape, only monsters rape. Chi, women these days, they go around telling all sorts of lies for attention. Acha, tell me, if she really got raped, what was she doing for 3 months before telling the police? Chane kha rahi this, randi?
And these women’s groups people also, I tell you. What do they call themselves? Feminists. All fake concern for women, everyone just has political agendas, I am telling you. (What do you mean how do I know? I know everything, ji, haan!) You know what they are saying, haaye raam, I can’t even tell! They are saying we should get rid of the Parks and go back to jails! Saali randis! How easy for them to tell! Do they know how much Our Daughter suffered? All big-big words they use, see, in today’s paper , an interview has come about how law on paper and in practice is not the same —
“Making punishments harsher does not deter criminals if they still think they can get away with their crime. We have to make sure all criminals face definite consequences for their actions. For that, we need a lot of things to change — police investigations need to be more efficient and sensitive, we need to provide rape kits, and court processes need to be made faster. It is the certainty, and not the severity of punishment that acts as a deterrent.
In countries that have used punishment by death for rapes, the effort has backfired because it has increased the likelihood that rape victims would be murdered. Criminals have been able to put 2 and 2 together and figure out that killing the person who could testify against them would increase their chances of acquittal— ”
I can’t even read any more! (I can’t, beta!) She is saying the monsters should go to jail, is it? She is saying they need rehabilitation also! They should learn to respect women, she is saying! Is she mad in the head? How can monsters learn anything? (No, ji, I am not saying they dropped down from the sky, but they’re not like me for sure!) Such women should not be allowed to even live, forget being allowed to give their wrong opinions, I tell you! Pseudo-feminists!
The Parks is too soft a punishment for these monsters. Next year, the government is starting a new system. They have formed a new department for it. Ministry of Justice For Women. In this system, the Parks will not be bidding! We will be bidding! (Haan, beta!) Just think! You, me, full public, we can all send in our ideas for how to kill the monsters! And they will select the best idea and implement it. There’s more — The person with the best idea gets free first-row seats for the show! Oh I have already decided what I will be sending. Set these gay people behind the monsters, make them rape each other! (It will be a first-class show, beta!) They are saying they will use the new system only in the ‘rarest of rare’ cases. But what are we there for? We are the true feminists! We’ll go out on the streets and protest to make sure that every monster gets this treatment.
Look at these women’s groups protesting outside the Park right now! Disgusting. What do their slogans say? “We can kill rapists, but we can’t kill their mindsets”. Senseless women!
Okay okay, quiet now, take the popcorn, the show is starting!
