"Happy Women's Day!"
Wow. I wonder what's so happy about having a woman's day. I'd be just as happy, had someone wished me 'Happy Human's Day!' or 'Happy Living Being's Day!'. In a day and age when every relationship has been commercialised into a greeting card, we find yet another commercialisation - women.
Don't get me wrong. Although it might sound ridiculous, I happen to be a feminist. Maybe I am an offbeat feminist, yes. I don't see the point of having a day to celebrate being a woman. Its like having a 'Physically Disabled's Day' or something to that effect. It makes it sound like the world needs to be reminded that women exist. Like women are something external. Like the world belonged only to men, and the aliens, women, needed some reassurance that its ok to be a woman - after all, there's a day celebrating her existance!
I find it ridiculous when I receive dozens of mails 'celebrating' women, in all forms - mother, daughter, wife, and God knows what else. Well I think we need a reminder here, that most women AREN'T that great. There are so many women who are so career oriented that they neglect their families, so many others who are housewives but won't lift a finger to cater to their families because they have so many servants - they're busier attending elite kitty parties, so many moms who put their kids into boarding school because they don't want the hassle of bringing them up. There are so many women who exploit the privileges given to them because of their gender, and mete out an unfair treatment to their male counterparts. At this rate, we'll need a men's day soon.
Face it - genuine, fantastic women are rare. And having known a few, I know this much - these women don't need a day to celebrate them, their very existance is a celebration.
No matter how much the current generation 'feminists' scream out gender equality, I beg to differ. Men and women are built differently. Physically, mentally and emotionally. I stick by the view that a woman who can't take care of her family isn't worth being called a woman at all. Whether she can manage a career besides that, is upto her.
Neither men, nor women are superior to the other sex. Nature meant them both to depend on each other, and turn weaknesses into strengths. They were meant to combine, so that each will complement the other and grow together into something they both never were.
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