Why Women Are Wearing Cow Masks For Protection

WOMEN IN INDIA ARE USING COW MASKS TO ILLUSTRATE HOW INDIAN
LAWS FAVOR CAL PROTECTIONS OVER THEIR FEMALE HUMAN CONSTITUENTS
THAT YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE PICTURES OF WOMEN IN THESE COW
MASKS HERE THERE'S A FEW OF THEM AROUND THE COUNTRY IN DIFFERENT
PLACES.
OBVIOUSLY INDIA HAS SEEN A RISE IN COW PROTECTION LAWS WITH
LONG SENTENCES AND HARSH PUNISHMENTS AND SUJA CHART
GOSH WHO IS AN ARTIST FROM KOLKATA INDIA SAID HE STARTED
THIS PROJECT AND IT WAS INSPIRED BY HIS OWN QUESTIONS ABOUT
WHY THE SAME FEVERISH APPROACH TO CODIFYING PROTECTIONS
FOR COWS WAS EXTENDED TO WOMEN IN THE COUNTRY.
AND INDIA, HARMING A COW CAN YIELD AS SWIFT AND HARSH
PRISON SENTENCE OF NEARLY 10 YEARS OR EVEN INSPIRE VIGILANTE
JUSTICE BUT SURVIVORS OR VICTIMS OF WEIGHT RATE CAN WAIT
MONTHS BEFORE THEY SEE RESULTS FROM REPORTING THEIR ASSAULT.
AND 2015,
INDIA'S NATIONAL CRIME RECORDS BUREAU REPORTED THAT THERE WERE
AT LEAST 34,000 CASES OF RAPE REPORTED ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
IN FACT, CONVICTION FOR THESE RAIDS AGAINST WOMEN IS
ABOUT ONLY 21% AND THAT IS A STATISTIC FROM 2014.
SOME OF THESE LAWS PROTECTING COWS COME FROM THE HINDU
RELIGION AND WE OBVIOUSLY KNOW AS WELL THAT THERE HAVE BEEN
INCREASED RAPE ALLEGATIONS AND INSTANCES OF RAPE OF WOMEN IN
INDIA AND A LOT OF THE TIMES, THE POLICE, WHEN WOMEN TALK
WHETHER SEXUAL ASSAULT WON'T REPORT THAT WOMEN ARE COMING IN
OR BELIEVE THEM, SO OBVIOUSLY THE NUMBER I MENTIONED BEFORE IS
PROBABLY AN UNDERESTIMATE, BUT ALSO THERE IS A HUGE STIGMA
AROUND IN INDIA SO IT IS FURTHER AND UNDERESTIMATE AND STILL,
THESE COWS ARE BEING PROTECTED MORE THAN WOMEN.
IS A GREAT RHETORICAL ARGUMENT, WELL EXECUTED BY
THE INSTAGRAM ART THAT WE ARE SEEING.
IS LIKE YOU ARE PROTECTING A COW MORE THAN YOU ARE PROTECTING ME.
I'M NOT AGAINST ATTACKING COWS, I AM ALL FOR PROTECTING
WOMEN JUST AS MUCH AND WHEN YOU SAY THAT IT IS
UNDERREPORTED, IF NOT MORE.
BUT IT IS UNREPORTED.
REUTERS REPORTED THAT IN METROPOLITAN AREAS LIKE
DELHI, ACCORDING TO A SERVER THEY DID, ONE IN 13
SEXUAL ASSAULTS IS REPORTED.
AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT IS THE THIRD MOST COMMON CRIME IN
DELHI AND MUMBAI.
QUICK VISIT BY COMPARISON, ONE IN THREE PHONE ROBBERIES IS
REPORTED AS OPPOSED TO ONE AND 13 SEXUAL ASSAULTS AND THAT
AND MOM BY ITS ONE AND NINE ARE REPORTED.
BUT THEY HAVE TAKEN CERTAIN STEPS IN INDIA.
APPARENTLY THEY PASSED A LAW SAYING THAT IN 2017 ALL PHONES
HAVE TO HAVE A PANIC BUTTON AND IN 2018, IT WILL HAVE TO BE
LINKED TO GPS IN ORDER TO SHOW PEOPLE WHERE THEY ARE TAUGHT
THERE TRYING TO PASS DIFFERENT LAWS THAT MAKE COPS
MORE ACCOUNTABLE WHEN WOMEN DO REPORT THESE SEXUAL ASSAULTS,
BUT THEY ARE STILL OBVIOUSLY IN THE PROCESS OF IT BUT I LIKE HOW
THIS ARTIST IS SORT OF DRAWING ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT THERE
IS THIS DISPARITY BETWEEN HOW THE COUNTRY TREATS ITS
CONSTITUENTS THAT
IN THE PICTURES BY THE WAY, THE ARTIST IS A GUY, BUT IT'S
DIFFERENT WOMEN WEARING THE COW HEADS A DOT IN THE BEGINNING I
THOUGHT, THAT IS A CURIOUS CONTRAST AND I GET IT, BUT I
KINDA FELT BAD FOR PICKING ON THE LAW AND HOW PROTECTION.
I GUESS THE COWS SHOULD BE PROTECTED I THOUGHT, BUT IT
TURNS OUT I AM WRONG ABOUT THAT BECAUSE THE MORE I READ
INTO IT, THE MORE I REALIZED THIS IS IN JUST THAT WE ARE
HINDUS AND WE WANT TO PROTECT COWS AND IS IN THAT LOVELY?
IT IS ACTUALLY SOMETIMES SELECTIVELY ENFORCED
AGAINST MUSLIMS IN INDIA.
AND THE POINT I ALWAYS MAKE ABOUT RELIGION IS, YOU
PRACTICE YOUR RELIGION, I DON'T.
YOU SHOULD HAVE THE FREEDOM TO PRACTICE IT, BUT YOU SHOULD
NOT FORCE OTHER PEOPLE TO PRACTICE YOUR RELIGION
BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT IN IT.
IF YOU ARE HINDU, GREAT.
TONY COWS.
LOVE THEM AND PET THEM AND DO WHATEVER ELSE YOU'D LIKE TO
DO WITH THEM AND ANIMALS ARE INNOCENT.
BUT IF MUSLIMS OR JEWS OR CHRISTIANS WANT TO EAT
DELICIOUS HAMBURGERS, LEAVE THEM ALONE.
THAT LAW BY ITSELF, EVEN THOUGH IT SOUNDS GREAT, WASN'T
THAT GOOD TO BEGIN WITH AND WHEN YOU DO THE CONTRAST IN A
COURSE THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT OF THE ART.
JESUS, GANESH, OR WHATEVER.
WE'RE NOT EVEN PROTECTING WOMEN AS MUCH AS WE ARE
PROTECTING COWS THEN IT IS PARTICULARLY TROUBLESOME.
GREAT ART BECAUSE GREAT ART MAKES YOU THINK AND IT HAS
THE WHOLE COUNTRY THINKING.

Why Women Are Wearing Cow Masks For Protection

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