So let me break it down to you, it's about feminism. Now for someone like me who is still in the last teen years of her life (of course the crucial years to the start of one's career as they say) coming up with a such a mature and fragile notion such as this wouldn't seem to be my piece of cake to anybody or even to myself, to be honest, until i thought about it and started to observe things around me ,and what followed redesigned quite a lot of facets of my personal life.
Google defines feminism as 'the advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes' but this isn't all, is it? Doesn't it look like as if words have diminished and shrunk the existanance of what seems limitless when its in your head to no more than a living size when its brought out. Often what we do is not always what we understand and it is so strange that these days people have started associating feminism to every woman related activity and not just women's rights for eg. reservation in jobs, metros, all around the country- feminism? not okay. We are hoping to bring about a sense of equality among the sexes by doing what... creating divisions among them? making a women specific section everywhere in the country? and if this is for the sake of safety then where are we going as a human?
History says that we fought for our rights, we fought for equality and even things such as peace and are still fighting but what we don't understand is that feminism is not a fight, it is not something you can achieve by rallying out on the roads, it starts with togetherness and with better understanding of each other and respecting the other gender so that we all can live together as a community, as independent people who have an equal say in right and wrong and not just exist as male or female.
And for this to happen i need feminism in my country because i am fed up of politicians, journalists and activists addressing me as a sister or a daughter rather than a person who truly belongs to herself. and i hope my voice isn't confused with hatred for men or bringing their esteems down (for nobody shone brighter by blowing off someone else's candle) but i say this for a much awaited equality in the country .
I have to say im so glad that my mother didn't teach me to make perfectly round chapattis or to stay composed "like" girls are supposed to or "enlighten" me with the disciplines of post-marriage life rather she taught me to speak for myself and make my opinions count, to raise my voice and roar if i have to, she told me there would be days like this and that i would have my choice, she taught me you don't have to do what everyone else is doing and so many years later when i asked her about myself she told me she never knew she was raising a feminist and added that she raised me and my brother with no difference.
And no i don't have a fancy one liner to end this blog but i do have a question; On a scale from a contemporary mother to Deepika Padukone filming the outrageous video about feminism, where do you stand?
Google defines feminism as 'the advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes' but this isn't all, is it? Doesn't it look like as if words have diminished and shrunk the existanance of what seems limitless when its in your head to no more than a living size when its brought out. Often what we do is not always what we understand and it is so strange that these days people have started associating feminism to every woman related activity and not just women's rights for eg. reservation in jobs, metros, all around the country- feminism? not okay. We are hoping to bring about a sense of equality among the sexes by doing what... creating divisions among them? making a women specific section everywhere in the country? and if this is for the sake of safety then where are we going as a human?
History says that we fought for our rights, we fought for equality and even things such as peace and are still fighting but what we don't understand is that feminism is not a fight, it is not something you can achieve by rallying out on the roads, it starts with togetherness and with better understanding of each other and respecting the other gender so that we all can live together as a community, as independent people who have an equal say in right and wrong and not just exist as male or female.
And for this to happen i need feminism in my country because i am fed up of politicians, journalists and activists addressing me as a sister or a daughter rather than a person who truly belongs to herself. and i hope my voice isn't confused with hatred for men or bringing their esteems down (for nobody shone brighter by blowing off someone else's candle) but i say this for a much awaited equality in the country .
I have to say im so glad that my mother didn't teach me to make perfectly round chapattis or to stay composed "like" girls are supposed to or "enlighten" me with the disciplines of post-marriage life rather she taught me to speak for myself and make my opinions count, to raise my voice and roar if i have to, she told me there would be days like this and that i would have my choice, she taught me you don't have to do what everyone else is doing and so many years later when i asked her about myself she told me she never knew she was raising a feminist and added that she raised me and my brother with no difference.
And no i don't have a fancy one liner to end this blog but i do have a question; On a scale from a contemporary mother to Deepika Padukone filming the outrageous video about feminism, where do you stand?
