FEMINISM- A doctrine that advocates equal rights for women, or the movement aimed at equal rights for women, was probably a need of the hour, when it began in it’s earliest form. According to an orthodox view of the world, women who fight for equality are too headstrong to be empathetic. My personal view on feminism is not really very accepting of what women demand for in the name of women’s liberation.
I am of the view, that if a woman demands EQUALITY with men in all the respects, it is highly undermining a woman’s worth. A woman to be accurate deserves and needs more than what a man needs- let’s not talk about who deserves more of what. Basically, the needs of men and women differ. Instead of being accommodating and facilitating one another, one of our generations of men, in the past brought women on the verge of non-conformity to MEN’S RULES.
Men at some point in time not only, started to take women for granted but tried to establish their “superiority” by mere force. Maybe REASONING is not what usually charms a woman, but then neither is any kind of subjugation, very alluring to her.
This is an established fact: MALTREATMENT (whatever the form or nature) and INJUSTICE of men towards women made the women stand up to RETALIATE. As a result of that, home life has suffered, kids have been affected, total peace of the basic unit, “home”, of the society has been disrupted, and ultimately nobody ain’t happy. I do not believe women are equal to men. A woman, by virtue of her creation has totally different and obviously more demands than any man has. This obviously means, that the one who is the stronger of the species, the one with lesser needs and demands MUST CATER TO THE NEEDS OF THE WEAKER of the species. I do not hesitate to use the term ‘weaker’ for myself and I obviously am not embarrassed or ashamed of being weaker or meeker, than my male counterpart. I have my own strengths, and the circle of my strengths does not encompass doing vigorous and rigorous activities outside or inside my home. The rough and tough goes to men to be handled and taken care of. What insanity empowers me to say I am as strong as any man?
The problem is that, the men who use muscles to think instead of their brains, make this very point a reason to feel and believe they are somehow superior to women. Maybe this would not have been a problem either, but the men who have low self esteem do not settle, for anything less than demeaning women, to curb the insatiable lust for supremacy. Their egos do not let them accept the fact, a woman is strong in her own ways, quite different from the ways of a man.
This is why and how FEMINISM was born. This will never die as long as men do not understand the IMPORTANCE OF GIVING EQUAL RESPECT to women- the same they desire for themselves. This is not a competition where we can ever have a winner and a runner-up. This will never happen. Men will remain on the losing end if they do not acknowledge that peace fleas from where ego gains ground. Ego is not a man’s friend but a woman is, if she is given her due respect.
FEMINISM needs to be redefined. Women do not need to claim equality to men in anything but honour and prestige. We do not need neither want opportunities to WORK in all the fields, but we demand, if we work, we be treated, as honorable as yourselves. Not that, I personally have any problem with my workplace environment or my home. I fortunately fall in the category of those blessed few, whose fathers and brothers have empowered them and husbands have allowed them to continue that way, but unfortunately for most of the women around the world, life is not that beautiful, only because they are ‘women’.So much as I understand men and women, only foolish men resist to acknowledge they are influenced by women. Right from the moment a child is born, he finds refuge in a woman’s-his mother’s arms. Then why negate, why not accept, why to prove you probably never need a woman?
Feminism was born out of men’s injustice to women and it will live on, as long as men do not choose to be wiser and more accepting of a woman’s superior and more influencing place in a society- and women qualify for that respectable place by nature of creation. Men, just need not resist nature.