Two young women rappers speak up against Gender Inequality

India is seeing a mass movement today. The 2012 Delhi gang-rape changed the way women and men saw the safety issue. It is not more accepted as an unfortunate social evil that women have to bear, but the biggest social challenge that the whole country and the government have joined hands to fight. Talking about sexual assault is no more a taboo and no one: right from a teacher to an important minister, can get away with making sexist comments (and the trending #ShameOnSharad proves that.)

Thanks to social media, all of us have voices that are being heard. You no more need to be a celebrity to be heard. What is being said is what matters and not who is saying it. Twitter, Facebook and Youtube are the tools of change today and comedians, small time actors and rappers are changing the way you and I think every day.

On Monday, two young women from Mumbai, Uppekha Jain and Pankhuri Awasthi, calling themselves ‘Bombaebs,’ posted a video on YouTube of them rapping about rape . The video starts with a disclaimer saying: “You don’t have to read this, it’s only a standard disclaimer. This video doesn’t have any explicit or bannable content. It’s just that the reality for women in India is Explicit.” And this written at the bottom of the screen: “Maculine- adjective. Men who are evolved enough to support the making of this video.”

What these women say is not new. They just state the hypocrisy of our society and the ways in which it prevents women from living their lives. But the fact that within two days of being uploaded, the video has been viewed almost 1, 40, 000 times says a lot about the pulse of the nation. We might be one the most unsafe places for women in the world but at least, we realize the problem and are ready to stand up against it, in our small but important ways.

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