Me too movement

 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 .