Or rather we
should say Mars vs. Venus. A lot has been said. A lot of jokes are spreading laughter
and lots of rumors are making rounds. One thing is common and that is the
sensitive topic and that is on Women.
Recently, Mrs.
funny bones lashed out by writing a wonderful blog which targeted the
particular category of people in society whose views are quite misogynist. Check out her article here.
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| Mrs Funny Bones |
To face such
like minded people, we don’t need to look out there in the world. Mrs. Funny
bones, very informatively, pointed out all those people in power and part of
the ruling group of our country, whose opinions and actions very much prove
their belief of misogyny.
Even though
Kalpana Chawla reached Moon, Indira Gandhi took control of the largest
democracy in the world, Mary Kom brought bronze to India from Olympics, Sania
Nehwal making India proud, Malala Yusufzai from Pakistan being the youngest Nobel
prize winner at the age of 17 and many many women out there breaking all the
orthodox notions of keeping a women behind a veil.
These women
have proved themselves and showed the world what they are capable of. There are
the ones who are balancing out what ever life throws at them and proving
themselves with their outstanding achievements. But what they get in return ---- Criticism, preconceived
opinion and demotivation and body shaming. Everything worked according to the
comfort zone of society. Mrs. Funny bones mentioned Serena Williams who was
also a victim of body shaming and that too on tennis ground. I may ask now
whether people really came to see her game or to judge her body. She hasn’t
proved herself and won accolades because of her fit body but because of her
outstanding skills of playing tennis.
I remember
an incident while in school; one of the girl quit playing basketball because
her father didn’t want her to wear short skirts or shorts and display her legs.
Now I wonder how beautiful boy’s legs seem and shorts must be banned for boys
keeping in mind the dreadful view of dense hair on their legs. Isn’t that a
torture to the audience who are getting a view of sweaty armpits out of their
vests when their arms are up scoring a point to make their team win? Am I body shaming? Oops !!
No, we will
never do that. It’s only the women who end up being traumatized by this so
called men dominated society. Right from the time we attain puberty, we are
being taught not to talk about it loudly in front of father or brother or any
male member of the family. It is considered as a taboo and not accepted
positively in the society though this biological aspect of women’s body is
actually the sole reason of growing population. I wonder if doctors also
behaved the same way and we had different hospitals especially with male and
female doctors respectively.
How much
liberal our society may become, they will keep imposing certain rules on women,
no matter how much talented they are. In
the end, I would ask people who are reading this to discuss openly with your
kids that there is no difference in being a boy and a girl. If a boy can reach
the moon, a girl is also not left behind.
She can
achieve anything and everything and will continue to do so.
