“WOMAN
● changes her name
● changes her home
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● leaves her family
● moves in with you
● builds a home with
you
● gets pregnant for
you
● pregnancy changes
her body
● she gets fat
● almost gives up in
the labour room due to the unbearable pain of child birth
● even the kids she
delivers bear your name
Till the day she
dies... everything she does... cooking, cleaning your house, taking care of
your parents, bringing up your children, earning, advising you, ensuring you
can be relaxed, maintaining all family relations, everything that benefit
you..... sometimes at the cost of her own health, hobbies and beauty.
So who is really doing
whom a favour?
Dear men, appreciate
the women in your lives always, because it is not easy to be a woman.
Being a woman is
priceless
Happy women's week!
Pass this to every
woman in your contact to make her feel proud of herself.
Rock the world ladies!
A salute to ladies!
WOMAN MEANS :-
W ➖ WONDERFUL MOTHER
O ➖ OUTSTANDING FRIEND
M ➖ MARVELLOUS DAUGHTER
A ➖ ADORABLE SISTER
N ➖ NICEST GIFT TO MEN FROM GOD”
WOW! Indeed a touching message sent by a friend on
this Women’s Day. Before I begin to celebrate the day/week of the “fairer”
sex in my distinct way, I would like to wish all my readers a very Happy Women’s
Day.
Since morning, I have been receiving messages and even calls
from both my domestic and exotic friends reiterating the fact that how
beloved and different I am, how special and strong I am, how beautiful and
supportive I am, how caring and sacrificing I am.
And when I say “I”, I am referring to all my female
counterparts who are loved and seen differently by every person out on streets:
through the lens of jealousy, rage and lechery. My specialty and strength is reinforced
by strangers and family who force themselves on me, without my consent. My overwhelming
beauty deliberately kept in check through acid attacks. My sacrificing nature
kept in check constantly by asking me to give up my dreams.
I didn’t know that I had such superpowers. Or if I consider
it the other way round, are they all telling me that I’ll be a woman only if I
adhere to these adjectives repeated again and again in these messages which are
celebrating my apparent existence as a woman. Then, I am boggled by the fact
that what parameters are set up for those brave men trapped in the body of a
woman who are finally going for gender reassignment? Who say they are
independent now as they have finally found their existence but their lives have
taken a 360 degree turn because they have a new concept introduced to them:
restraints and constraints, the added advantage of being a woman.
Everyone is receiving such messages and men are actually
told to respect women for these reasons. Isn’t this a conspiracy? According to
me people are being fed the false image of a woman. I don’t say that these are
not a woman’s traits but I do contest the well-known but ludicrous fact that
she is a lesser woman if she is little less loving, caring, sacrificing etc.
I am perplexed by such quantifications. What is the parameter
to judge the womanly nature of a woman? What is the benchmark? Who sets it? And
most importantly who is authorized to make such judgements?
Is woman a lesser being because she loves herself along with
her independence, takes her decisions and speaks her mind? Is she a lesser
woman because she challenges the age-old concept of “Woman for the hearth” and
stands tall in professional workplace, a conventional/so-called man’s world? Is
she a lesser woman because she celebrates her womanhood by not cringing at the
mere mention of menstruation, doesn’t shave her legs or wears a red lipstick.
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Some people might think that I am being a feminist. Instead,
I believe that I am being thought provoking. I assert this because had women possessed such Olympian potential and
hardihood, none of them would have been subjected to discrimination, violence
and exploitation.
I read an alarming fact online that the unpaid labour and
effort that a woman puts in at home surpasses the collective GDP of various
sectors like manufacturing, retail etc globally. And all this while we have
been shouting our lungs out for the rights and wages of poor/unskilled labour. Pity!
Women Empowerment? It’s just a “beautiful” word that looks good in election
manifestos and the conciliatory speeches of “men of honour” when some untoward
incident takes place.
Sigh! All I can hope now is that the stereotypes are challenged
and the gender gap at ‘Work’ (home or office) place is addressed by some
supernatural power so that the efforts of United Nations that is celebrating the
theme of “Women In The Changing World Of Work: Planet 50-50” can cut the
mustard.
