Boy: I love you
Girl: I hate you
Boy: Mapla antha aruvala edu (Buddy, take that machete)
Girl: I love you too

Boy: Hi
Girl: Namma love ah break pannaikkalam (shall we break up our relationship?)
Boy: Yean (Why)
Girl: Enaku unna vida oruthan bettera kidachuttan… so break up agaradhu dhan better (I have got someone better than you)
Boy: Aama nee TV news pakaradhu illaiya (Aren’t you watching news on TV?)
Girl: Yean kekara (Why are you asking that?)
Boy: indha Nungambakkam Ramkumar pathi theriyuma theriyatha? (Don’t you know about Nungambakkam Ramkumar case?)
Girl: April fool summa sonnen da. I love you too. (I was just kidding you0
Boy: Appadi va vazhikku (This is what I want)

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These are some of the so called jokes going rounds in Whats app and other social media groups, post Swathi murder. With investigations still going on and other legal formalities yet to get over in the brutal murder case, these kinds of sickening jokes talk about today’s youth, their mentality and understanding on certain issues.

The killing of Swathi at the Nungambakkam railway station on June 24 was nothing less than brutality executed by a youth, who allegedly slit his throat when police rounded him a week later. The youth, Ramkumar, is languishing in the Puzhal central prison, Chennai.

While the murder shook the entire State and its people, what followed the killing was even more flabbergasting.

‘Jokes’ portraying the station as a slaughter house for women, and the girls being threatened by boys for not accepting their love have been damaging in every sense to women.

“This shows how the society is looking at the murder. We are only finding fault with the victim rather than looking at the audacity of the murderer who thought of getting away with the crime,” says Geetanjali, a student of a private college in Coimbatore.

She wants to police to solve the case at the earliest and punish the killer. “Not only that. Those who spread such so called jokes or messages on social media should also be severely punished,”she fumes.

Talking on the murder and the incidentsthat followed, a city-based psychiatrist says such jokes should be stopped from being circulated as they are prone to encourage people to commit such heinous crime.

“Whatever be the reason, a woman is not a thing to be possessed or bought. It is her choice to choose any man and the same applies to men too. Forcing somebody to fall in love with a person will only worsen the situation. Deciding to eliminate that person is a foolish act and it shows the unstable and corrupt mind of the person,” the doctor says and adds that the society should take collective steps to handle such issues.