Why?
Why is it that even today in India most girls have to fight for their independence and for the right to take their own decisions and live their lives the way they want to?
But then things are changing. Hope the winds of change blow faster and every girl asserting her independence is successful.
Be it in choosing the partner of her choice, maybe from a different region, a different religion, a different language.
Be it in choosing the decision to take life as it comes and not be coerced by family or by society to go against her wishes
Be it any goddamn thing, let there be actual equality of the sexes.
And when that happens, I would be happy, not only coz I believe that both the sexes are equal, but on a ligher note, also because I wont have to relinquish my seat in a bus, just because its reserved for ladies (coz if there is equality there cant be reservation right :o))
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posted by Anurag at
1:44 PM
2 Comments:
Touched a raw nerve :) .... okie why ...there are so many so many reasons. Gender bias is like this multifaceted thing which hides layers and layers of biases which sometimes reinforce each other. There may be girls who may not be discriminated against in the usual parameters like nutrition or infanticide or equal schooling opportunities. But they may be discriminated in that they may have absolutely nil decisional power in their own lives. Its a pretty oppressive situation (which obviously has led to the protests in forms of feminism).
The solution .. there's just one, and that's the toughest one :) and that's being informed about the subtle ways in which discrimination takes place against you, and fighting against it....the problem here is that its not a fight against some nameless entity, its against people you know and who are acting in best intentions (according to the social milieu they were brought up in). That's the catch... but then again, aah, its about developing that devil-may-care attitude (even to your own family) when you know you are right :)
Sigh..............;)
And yeah seat in the bus :D...would I have to give up that privilege?? Gassssp ;)
@hitchhiker
yes...i guess standing up for one's right to take decisions against one's near n dear one's is the toughest part of it all....at least in the urban society
n yes....u OUGHT to give up that seat in the bus :P
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