To Durgesh (and of course to Kartik, Tushar, Toni, Chakrapani, Chirag, Abhishek, Ujjwal and other boys and girls who might as well press the thumb's up button on Durgesh's status),
This is something that you may not like. As it happens, people don't prefer to like this form of literature. This is, well... reality!
Let me clear out some points before I get to the main ones. I'm not a feminist. Yeah, you read it right. I totally support the "you don't have to be an anti-man to be a pro-woman" ideology. I accept the fact that women take extra advantages of the weird privileges that they get. I believe that "all men are same" is plain bullshit. So stop thinking it as a wrecked answer to a man by an offended woman.
Let's take it in this way. I'm an average Indian woman belonging to a middle class family who's not a feminist and who's writing for girls this time as there were things that this boy couldn't explore.
I'll elaborate each and every line of this 'well written philosophical write-up' and state what I think on it.
These are entirely my views and I welcome criticisms.
1*From the time you were born to the age you have grown up, there is a guy who protects you and love you, that's your father.
From the time you were born to the age you have grown up, there is a woman who protects you and loves you, that's your mother. Period.
(Frankly, both our moms and dads spare their time to love and protect us. Be it a girl or a boy).
2*From the time you join the college till you leave it, u will get protected and loved by many or may be one but there is always someone...
Yes, there's always someone. But dear boy, let me tell you the other (real) side of it.
Those someones are the ones who first connect with her, eventually they propose her and when she says "no" they make false claims about her. "She's a slut" "she was the one to call me up" "she's friend zoning me", sounds familiar?
Other 'someones' approach her just because of the fact that their friends told the 'someone' that the 'someone' is not good enough to make her like him. Ego, you know!
And then that look! Okay, frankly you guys stare! A lot. You might say that we look at her because she looks beautiful but some guys stare as if girls are their beer glasses. That's, in no possible way, protection or love. Besides, that's way too irritating!
And then they reach Facebook. They send requests. When not accepted, they cancel it and send it again. Not accepted. Cancel it. Send it again. Still no lead? They'll message you! Blocked. Again the lame judgements and annotations start.
Now you'd be thinking that *all guys are not like this* *there's always that one girl that he responds to earnestly*
You know, all these things that boys do for *that one girl* gets irritating when the girl is not interested. A 'no' means 'no'. There's no need to love or protect if there's no lead. Simple!
Reality check - There's a lot of emotional hate that we get from boys loving us than the actual love or protection that you're taking about!
3*A guy who does his duty and remains always in service and makes a typical Indian woman "weak"
These services also include molestation, rape, domestic violence....
Okay, lets not talk about the big words here. A simple example is eve teasing. A girl walks in college campus and she's being commented upon. This very situation has made her strong, by the way.
Your services have made us strong. Thanks!
(For the "good services" skip to point 12)
4*If they have no one they form a group and feel protected in that.
Seriously? Aren't those groups called friends? And dude you come from a defense background. Dont you know the real strength lies in being together?
In case, you're talking about a girl being part of a boys group to feel protected, I've seen numerous guys always having a backup number of a guy they know of, or in perfect straight forward way a "gunda".
5*There is always someone to take care.
You're kidding, right? Boys are generally taken care of at homes more than girls. No doubt, you hold the legacy of the family in your hands! (If you mean 'outside home', skip to point number 9)
Remember, caring is essentially feminine.
6*If they don't do anything in there life, there is a husband they will get for sure on whom they will depend.
An earning man is as much dependent on a housewife as a housewife on the earning man.
Hard to swallow?
Okay, so tell that husband to live without a housewife. Tell him to cook, wash his own clothes, do the dishes, manage home accounts, look after kids, get them admitted in a good school, keep track of his children's studies, meet his kid's teachers on PTMs, and a whole bunch of ignored stuff, alone.
Remember, an earning husband and a housewife are a team. A housewife is not a liability, for god's sake! Mind you, it take guts to choose no work over 'looking after kids'!
7*Weak Indian women... Yes, Typical Indian woman is weak
To put it simply, tell this to your mother and she'll tell you a tale of how you were brought into this world!
8*Because they haven't felt the insecurity in there life, that is, they haven't found a need to be strong.
Never tell that to a girl. Ever. (I'm not making myself pour here. "Girls haven't found a need to be strong". This is lame)
9*Life is all about Learning, u travel in general bogies of the train, you carry less cash while traveling, u live like a broke...
First, who said we never travel in general bogies? Yes, we do. And we don't waste time to punch the person who tries something awkward.
Now see from an adult perspective. A father and mother won't want their girl to go in general bogies. Why?
Because there are people of your breed (males) who might do something wrong. On the contrary, would you expect a woman to touch or molest a boy? No, the probability is surely less.
So by not letting their girl child enter a general bogie, yes, they're trying to protect her. But dear boy, you won't be touched, stared, molested or even if it happens, you won't be annotated by the society in any way. So girls are given better tickets by their fathers because the consequences that a girl would have to bear are just too high. Clearly, the solution to such problem is not in any world letting your girls travel in general bogies and face those freaks, but to not have such freaks at all!
Secondly, we are mainly middle class, so even we face situations when the cash is less. No point discussing here.
Third. Again we're talking about middle class society here and who would in the world of middle class people do that to their son? Normally, parents won't let their kids stay like a broke. (Though that's not a bad idea. It'll teach life to both girls and boys. But we're not in The States. Come back to India) And in some cases if they had, then there ARE examples of girls too (Kangana Ranaut)
10*There are some practices that makes you strong and you learn, from the basics.. But we don't allow them...
Oh my God!
Shut Up Man!
11*There is always someone to spread love and make them weaker than before.. And they get habitual of that.
Just to clear stuff, 'spreading love' and 'protecting' (that you've used quite too often) are two different things. The better tickets were not father's love but his sense of protection for his daughter.
Spreading love is actually a great thing. This world needs it the most.
Moreover, for boys (and girls too), there is always a woman to spread love in the most purest way in the universe - that are our moms.
12*With me, services are not so good.
Yeah, right. Services (as mentioned above in point 3) are not so good. Try not to give them.
Now about the 'good services'. That's called pampering. As for me, pampering remains equally on both sides. I've personally met a lot of young pampered girls as well as boys.
13*I may be a Gentleman but I am not going to make things easier for you, I will make u strong... That applies for my sisters, mother and friends.
Your breed has already made things 'not so easy' for us but we're kind of still shining and that's the proof of the strong Indian average woman. Gentleman, boys (whatever is the way to distinguish them) are the reasons why we became strong in the first place! So you don't have to waste your time making your sisters, mother and friends strong. They already are!
14*Life is hard, and that's a gift.. Love it, and respect it...
To you too, Sir!
I choose to write it big. Had I been told to end this briefly, it would have been like this:
Women are not strong? Bleed for 7 days straight, then tell me.
I don't know how to applaud for such a gem piece of thoughts representing the true instances.
ReplyDeleteReally
Thanks.