What the Me Too Movement demands is a continuous and systematic process
of learning that leads to equality. Right now what is happening under this
movement in India looks like serving a
limited purpose of naming and shaming some celebrity men and women by some celebrity
women without taking the accusations to
logical end of getting justice to victims of sexual exploitation
through various legally permissible means. Extensive social media
coverage alone of such a serious matter has the danger of lending only
frivolous gossip value to this matter . Such a serious movement can not be
reduced to a platform for publicity to
few attention seeking social media activists .
Colleges and schools pp should play an active role in
imparting a proper awareness to both boys and girls regarding the rights both the genders and in treating each other
with dignity. Proper understanding of this movement is possible only through including a chapter on sexual offences
(which is now missing) in the curriculum of “women
studies” which is taught at present only in women’s colleges as an add on course funded by the UGC . It
should be imparted in all the men’s
colleges too and should be renamed as “gender study” . Information on this offence and the ways to deal with it
may be provided through School and college education , but the change in the
mindset of younger generation can be achieved only through home environment
where , the parents set a model code of conduct in the equal treatment of men
and women in matters of fundamental
rights, duties , dignity and respect .
