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बलात्कार: फ़िल्मों के पर्दे से भेड़ियों के पंजे तक || आचार्य प्रशांत, बातचीत (2020)
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Rape
Obscenity in Media
Male Mentality
Freedom of Expression
Consent
Culture
Incitement
Responsibility
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses the issue of rape, stating that its root cause is the perverted animality residing within a person. The more pertinent question, he suggests, is what incites such actions. He argues that both men and women are complicit in provoking these acts. He refutes the claim made by an actress that obscene roles in movies do not influence men's mentality or societal views towards women, calling such a statement unequivocally wrong and dishonest. He explains that when a man is deliberately served content designed to arouse his sexual feelings, it agitates his mind. Consequently, when he steps out, he is under the influence of those obscene scenes and songs, which affects how he perceives and interacts with women, potentially leading to indecent acts. While the perpetrator is certainly at fault and must be punished, those who create and disseminate such inciting content cannot absolve themselves of responsibility. Acharya Prashant draws a powerful analogy, comparing sexual incitement to communal incitement. If an inflammatory speech from a religious place leads to riots and murder, the speaker is held responsible. Similarly, when obscene content is created for profit, leading to sexual incitement and rape, the creators should also be held accountable and jailed. He dismisses the defense of 'freedom of expression' as an irresponsible and dishonest argument used by those who are essentially running a business of corrupting minds for money. He points out that these creators are part of an entire ecology that produces rapists. They are not just reflecting a corrupt society; they are actively contributing to and profiting from its corruption. He further deconstructs the notion of 'consent' and 'free will'. He argues that a person's will is not truly free when it has been conditioned and manipulated by external influences like media propaganda. A mind that is intoxicated, whether by substances or by poisonous ideas, is not in a state to give free consent. Therefore, the argument that people willingly consume such content is flawed because their choices are made from a conditioned state. He concludes by emphasizing the role of culture. A culture can either tame the inner animal or provoke it. He laments that the current culture, particularly cinema and media, is provoking the inner animal, turning it into a rapist, and that this is a grave issue that needs to be addressed at its root.