We actually went wrong in the Biology class.
When my teacher drew two illegible circles on the blackboard and made a dot in their centres, the boys were controlling their laughter behind their books and the girls were overly embarrassed.
These are her's, one of the boys suggested, pointing his finger at a girl.
No, she doesn't have this big, someone else commented.
Before one more boy could give his opinion, only her school bag was there. We didn't see the girl after the incident. Disguised by our response, my teacher labelled the diagram in a grotesque manner and declared the rest as a homework.
Shouldn't have my teacher made the boy stand in his place and brusquely told him that breasts are just like the other organs of a woman's body and reminded him that he needed it for his bones to be in the correct order?
Maybe, the girl would have gotten some air to breathe; she's too young to bear what she had gone through.
Devastatingly, it's not limited to the Biology class.
When two girls would together take the permission to go to the washroom, boys would get the new topic to discuss.
This girl is in her periods, fingers would rise again.
Don't sit beside her--you'll catch an HIV infection, pieces of advice would be given.
Had only there were awareness programs organised to make them aware of menstruation, boys would have brought chocolates in the place of horrifying judgements.
Today, a writer tried debunking the myth that education can break down the rape culture--in his words--my fingers begged me to write how misleading the idea is.
Education can indeed break down the rape culture if given at the right time and at the right place.
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