Last week in Bangalore a group of young men and a few women were out celebrating . One fellow had qualified as a lawyer from the prestigious National Law School and had just landed a job in Bombay. Around midnight they decided to go to a local lake. On the way their car developed a problem and they were waiting by the road side when a group of local louts came by. An argument developed and this young man was stabbed to death. When contacted the first question the police asked was why they were going to a secluded lake at that time of the night with young women. This was the first question that came to my mind when I read the news report. Had a bunch of young men gone to a dark lake there would probably be no danger but the presence of girls made it infinitely dangerous. It was an invitation to the thugs, probably high on alcohol, to show their machismo and try to teach 'educated fellows' a thing or two. It seems that girls today have no appreciation of appropriate behaviour. They seem to think that they can do what men can get away with. Had they gone to the lake it is possible that they would have been picked up by police and charged with indecent behaviour or even raped by the police themselves. This kind of thing happens regularly but girls do not seem to notice. Most women say that men are beasts and that they have a right to go anywhere at any time of the day or night. This is the stupidest thing to say. Theft is a crime and no one has a right to steal our property. Yet we have bars on our windows, elaborate locks on our doors and imported gear locks in our cars. Surely women should take care of their bodies as they take care of their possessions. Yet they would like to be more macho than men. Unfortunately men and women are completely different species and three billion years of evolution cannot be undone by ten years of globalisation.