Mumbai has always been an unsafe city for women. In fact, no city in India is safe for either men or women. What makes Mumbai worse is people living there portray it to be some sort of heaven, a city which is vastly superior to the rest of India, while it is just another Indian city, with all the problems everyone faces - ranging from bad roads to heavy traffic, high pollution, lack of green spaces, and lack of safety for women. While Mumbaikars can keep shouting aloud that their city is safe, the reality is different.
This is hardly surprising. Mumbai is as big a cr*phole as any other Indian city. India is an unsafe country for humans, in general, and women, in particular. The fact of the matter is that 95% Indians, Muslim or Hindu, male or female, whether North or South Indians, are dirt poor and/or have zero culture or value systems.
We also have a disgustingly large and congested population with hardly any state capacity to change behaviours on a large-scale since we are rooted in backward collectivist mindsets. The only Indians who might have some value systems are those that speak polished English but that's still largely a minority and is also a generalization which still has many exceptions.
Even if you look at educated Indians living or travelling abroad, once they are in a large enough group, they start becoming noisy, inconsiderate and irritating. The only difference is that we don't have much genetic physical strength like other races to actually perpetuate real violence. Point is, this country will never change.
It was really shameful to see the video of the Korean girl being molested while vlogging. Unfortunately, the matter has been totally politicised on social media. RW handles and Opindia are openly saying that the perpetrators are Muslim. Regional chauvinist handles are blaming UP/Bihar migrants and North Indian culture. LW handles are bashing the BJP-Sena govt.
It seems that we have lost our rationality and humanity and are not focusing on the real issue: Is Mumbai safe for women at night? Should offices have car pools? Should there be women-only taxis driven by women? Should there be stricter punishment against molesters?
Also respected mod, I have no idea why you did not publish another comment of mine where I went into more details in the incident
We also have a disgustingly large and congested population with hardly any state capacity to change behaviours on a large-scale since we are rooted in backward collectivist mindsets. The only Indians who might have some value systems are those that speak polished English but that's still largely a minority and is also a generalization which still has many exceptions.
Even if you look at educated Indians living or travelling abroad, once they are in a large enough group, they start becoming noisy, inconsiderate and irritating. The only difference is that we don't have much genetic physical strength like other races to actually perpetuate real violence. Point is, this country will never change.
It seems that we have lost our rationality and humanity and are not focusing on the real issue: Is Mumbai safe for women at night? Should offices have car pools? Should there be women-only taxis driven by women? Should there be stricter punishment against molesters?