Originally posted by: poppinss
Amulya, yes we do 😃. But even if people instigated him... he was the one to act. So Shravan is fully responsible for that act. Because he was the only one who could have changed the outcome on that fateful day.
Sorry Poppins, but these are dark lanes that we are walking through now... By calling Shravan responsible for what Aditya did, we are giving entitled people like Aditya Ahuja a whole bunch of fig leaves to hide behind.
Slightly going off on a tangent here, but tell me this: Can anything/anyone ever be responsible for sexual assault other than the perpetrator? NO.
Today, we say Shravan made Aditya force himself on Suman, tomorrow someone else might come up with a different trigger. It just opens the floodgates for shifting the blame away from the assaulter.
Shravan was wrong to say what he did. (I'd say that even if the two had really shared a physical relationship, Shravan would still have no right to share it with someone without Sumo's consent). Period. He cannot use Nirmala and Aditya's behavior toward him to justify his words and escape the consequence of his actions. He used Sumo. Yes. He should have hell to pay. Absolutely yes!
But is he responsible for Aditya's monstrosity? No. That action is totally owned by Aditya.
Why?
Because only Aditya (not Shravan) could've changed the outcome by choosing not to act in the way he did.
Sorry Poppins, have spent some years volunteering with sexual assault and domestic violence organizations, and couldn't stem the flow of emotions.
I know this is a fictional show, but the people discussing the scenarios here on the forum are very much real. And we shape the real world we live in.
Sorry if I hurt anyone's feelings today.
Edited by an_chau - 9 years ago
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