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Watch: TVF Girliyapa’s 'How I Raped Your Mother' is a must-watch for every Indian

In case you've trouble understanding the concept of consent, or what consists marital rape, then this is a video you cannot miss.

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Recently, CPI (ML) leader Kavitha Krishnan was targeted on social media for her comments, about 'free sex' with one troll asking her whether her mother/sister enjoyed it? While Kavita Krishnan replied: “Er yes, my mother did. Hopefully so did yours. Because if the woman is not free, it’s not sex but rape. Get it?”, her mother Lakshmi Krishan also got in on the act and wrote: “Hi! I am Kavita's mother. Of course I had free sex. I should jolly well hope so! As and when I wanted, with the person I wanted. And I fight for every woman and man to have sex according to their consent. Never unfree, never forced.”

It’s not just Facebook trolls who fail to understand the concept of consent, and even the average Indian has a little trouble in that area. That a woman isn’t an object, that she has a mind, and that she’s not someone’s property is a concept most of the nation’s population still can’t grasp and that’s what TVF Girliyappa’s edgy new sketch is targetting.

Getting back to the sketch, which is named after the popular show How I Met Your Mother, this is the edgiest sketch from Girliyapa starring Devika (Aakanksha Thakur) telling her family members that her husband Arun (Anandeshwar Dwivedi) has been raping her, to which the family keeps on joking that it’s not rape, but intense love-making.

The video shows the entire family discuss the boundaries of consent wondering, why their daughter was making much ado about nothing. There are biting take downs of patriarchy, as every question about consent is mansplained with how the guy is making all the sacrifices for his loving wife.

Watch the video below:

In case you were wondering about the prevalence of the problem, a 2014 study by the International Centre for Women (ICRW) and United Nations Population Fund which conducted a study in eight states, found that the vast majority of sexual violence were reported within marriage while only 2.3% of the rape that women reported were by men other than their husbands.  Even more shockingly, one out of three men admitted to having forced a sexual act upon their wives/partners.

Where does the current government stand on marital rape?

The current government's Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi has gone back and forth on criminalising marital rape, stating in parliament that the concept can’t be ‘suitably applied in the Indian context’.

However, she later changed her stance, replying to question at an event to launch 'Beti Bachao Beti Padhao' campaign on whether there is an attempt to push for criminalisation of marital rape, she said: “Now there is".

In parliament, Gandhi had said, "It is considered that the concept of marital rape, as understood internationally, cannot be suitably applied in the Indian context due to various factors e.g. level of education/illiteracy, poverty, myriad social customs and values, religious beliefs, mindset of the society to treat marriage as sacrament, etc."

The Justice Verma Committee (which came into being after the events of December 2012) recommended doing away with the marital rape clause. Their report read: “Under the Indian Penal Code sexual intercourse without consent is prohibited. However, an exception to the offence of rape exists in relation to un- consented sexual intercourse by a husband upon a wife. The Committee recommended that the exception to marital rape should be removed. Marriage should not be considered as an irrevocable consent to sexual acts.”

Perhaps, this video will help Maneka Gandhi make up her mind. 

 

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