The feminist in me is struggling to come out...
I keep thinking about the women in the 70's and today... Lets face the truth..Women were mainly seen as a possessions.. still are...!Women have given up more and gotten less.They are considered as good wives only if they cook, clean and reproduce. like the women in olden days..
.Olden days women used to love cooking...why? The bitter truth...because the husbands went to work ,women were house-wives with only cooking skills!They knew nothing else about the outside world as they were confined to their homes,doing domestic chores and milking their cows.. Not much human contact as houses used to be far apart from each other, sometimes miles apart.. With only cooking and cleaning to do and raise kids,thats what comprised their whole world.Women those days loved to have company at home because it was rear...Women even looked forward to all festivals to cook delicacies because thats the time they would see some human activity buzzing around them...
TODAY-Women have easy access to education. They are more liberal in their approach.. As compared with past women in modern times have achieved a lot but in reality they have to still travel a long way. They are no more confined to their kitchens. Today women have reached the highest echelons in all walks of life..They not only take care of their families but also manage their career equally.The world is our Oyster!
YET
Society is uttertly biased,they claim to be modern but the truth is they want their women to be well dressed, out-going, socialising and inside the walls of their homes transform into a Cook/maid! And the same men in public claim they want their wives to be independent..Also women still have to seek for their approval before doing the smallest silliest thing..When women get better than their men in any aspect men cant handle it..Women still make the effort of balancing their lives between the two-career and family... Well, I can go on and on about what I see around me.. But I have only one word to say .....Hypocrysy!Thy name is...
A woman became 1st crorepati on this season of KBC & most importantly, she's a home-maker who cooks and brings up her kids! And has managed to win what we cannot probably in 10yrs and that with only her knowledge. That makes me truly believe what's important is one's ability and one's knowledge more than others' treatment or hypocritical behavior. But yes, your post is a bitter truth too.
ReplyDeleteThis Post could have been offending to few people and I have come to realise that. In my defence I'd like to say that it meant that working women are AS good as the house-wives. So what if we are not as good a cook as them but we try to balance both...I have/had no intentions of questioning the house-wives abilities..
ReplyDeleteRead this somewhere sometime back -Journalism isn’t any good if it’s not provocative and offending somebody.'
haha, your defensibility is very good :)
ReplyDeleteHonestly it didn't really offend, its only a bitter truth. And my argument was to damn hypocrisy coz there r many other facets to a woman's strength!
The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they're going to fall behind.
ReplyDeleteI belive in a quote which says “Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”