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In Vedic period there was no gender discrimination in my land, but later on there was a time when women needed to be protected from male chauvinists. The general thought was that women are fragile by nature their physiological, psychological and emotional aspects were to be dealt with very delicately and they need to be protected. And that responsibility was shouldered by the male section of the society. Accordingly he was protecting her with love as a father, husband and later on as a son. As there would to be male chauvinists at all times there were a few and they too in the pretext of protecting women started to exploit them to satisfy their lust. They confined them as their personal property by taking advantage of their poverty or vulnerability. From then on started the various atrocities against women and those who protected from love were overshadowed by those who pretended to protect for lust.
Unable to tolerate at one point of time women gathered strength and fought back by organizing groups and voicing their rights. They found it was unacceptable for them to consider that they needed protection as they were no way inferior to men folk. Then there were debates on equal rights and empowerment of women. Accordingly women refuse to sit locked up in their parents’ home till their families find somebody to marry them off and even so some did not find marriage anything as interesting. Male chauvinists started to fear these women with a good education and earning well. They acceptably got nervous and were afraid of losing their grip over women they suddenly found out that women do not need them to survive, neither financially, nor emotionally. Male chauvinists started to lose ground; they had to do something so that they continue to exploit women.
The new mantra they got was to fight for “independence” to women. They encouraged women folk to live as they wish to and be independent. They started to support them so that they are financially, emotionally and now “sexually” independent too. With such encouraging thoughts Indecent Representation of Women, Sexual Harassment at workplace and Live-in-Relationships thrived. And thus those male chauvinists have again started to have their say in exploiting women as before but very tactfully.
No parent would want their daughter to be so much independent. Independence for a woman is to let her choose her way of life not letting her get exploited. Some few years back I was watching the program “We the People” on NDTV. The topic was “Women projected in bad light by movies” one of the participant said there was nothing wrong if a woman performing skimpily dressed for an item song for a movie as it was art. But when the anchor asked if his daughter would wish to get into movies and want to do such a role would he agree, the gentleman said No!...this is how male chauvinism works. They want other mans daughter to get independent but not his own daughter.
No father wants his daughter or no brother wants his sister to have so much independence so as to let her exploited by such male chauvinist. Look at the advertisements which use women to sell their products; it is indeed disgusting to see advertisements being made exploiting women. In a resent advertisement a man was shown as if he is talking over to someone on a phone through his Bluetooth and tries to exploit a woman in the shopping mall. Is it this independence the women folk of my country are looking for……if so they need to rethink…. What say?????
In Vedic period there was no gender discrimination in my land, but later on there was a time when women needed to be protected from male chauvinists. The general thought was that women are fragile by nature their physiological, psychological and emotional aspects were to be dealt with very delicately and they need to be protected. And that responsibility was shouldered by the male section of the society. Accordingly he was protecting her with love as a father, husband and later on as a son. As there would to be male chauvinists at all times there were a few and they too in the pretext of protecting women started to exploit them to satisfy their lust. They confined them as their personal property by taking advantage of their poverty or vulnerability. From then on started the various atrocities against women and those who protected from love were overshadowed by those who pretended to protect for lust.
Unable to tolerate at one point of time women gathered strength and fought back by organizing groups and voicing their rights. They found it was unacceptable for them to consider that they needed protection as they were no way inferior to men folk. Then there were debates on equal rights and empowerment of women. Accordingly women refuse to sit locked up in their parents’ home till their families find somebody to marry them off and even so some did not find marriage anything as interesting. Male chauvinists started to fear these women with a good education and earning well. They acceptably got nervous and were afraid of losing their grip over women they suddenly found out that women do not need them to survive, neither financially, nor emotionally. Male chauvinists started to lose ground; they had to do something so that they continue to exploit women.
The new mantra they got was to fight for “independence” to women. They encouraged women folk to live as they wish to and be independent. They started to support them so that they are financially, emotionally and now “sexually” independent too. With such encouraging thoughts Indecent Representation of Women, Sexual Harassment at workplace and Live-in-Relationships thrived. And thus those male chauvinists have again started to have their say in exploiting women as before but very tactfully.
No parent would want their daughter to be so much independent. Independence for a woman is to let her choose her way of life not letting her get exploited. Some few years back I was watching the program “We the People” on NDTV. The topic was “Women projected in bad light by movies” one of the participant said there was nothing wrong if a woman performing skimpily dressed for an item song for a movie as it was art. But when the anchor asked if his daughter would wish to get into movies and want to do such a role would he agree, the gentleman said No!...this is how male chauvinism works. They want other mans daughter to get independent but not his own daughter.
No father wants his daughter or no brother wants his sister to have so much independence so as to let her exploited by such male chauvinist. Look at the advertisements which use women to sell their products; it is indeed disgusting to see advertisements being made exploiting women. In a resent advertisement a man was shown as if he is talking over to someone on a phone through his Bluetooth and tries to exploit a woman in the shopping mall. Is it this independence the women folk of my country are looking for……if so they need to rethink…. What say?????
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