The threatening shield

 Every day we see on the news, we read on the newspapers about violence on women and children. The real sad part is that if you add those numbers you get thousands and thousands of victims of abuse, violated women and children. Women keep standing up for better treatment and for their rights. They keep standing up for more rights of other women who have been subjected to abuse but can’t stand up for themselves no more especially in a system that looks the other way. Gender based violence needs to stop and now is a good time. It is true that Patriarchy is an umbrella for gender based violence. Looking at all Patriarchal values, the male species still is dominant and more often than not women still lament that men feel entitled to them and their bodies. Patriarchy is an institution or was an institution with its effects and attributes still felt and experienced even today. Social networks have been used in trying to spread the message, to fight gender based violence and other sorts of abuse. A lot of people have a voice now through social media but the question remains, does every post and tweet carry the right relevant content or does it trigger feelings and harm that was done to victims in the past? Women burst in anger and feel they’re not taken seriously if every time they send an outcry, about abuse and violence imposed to them, men jump in to say not all men do this and that, some men do that and not this. Men should take responsibility because women are the victims. Now it’s not the time to argue on who’s more subjected to abuse because what we wake up to, from print media to news channels is enough to make one sick to their stomach on what women and children go through every minute of every hour all in the hands of those who are there and expected to protect and be their shield  from the realms of the world.