Women's Delusion

Last Tuesday was 'Women's Day'. Like every year, this year also it has been celebrated with pomp and pleasure. Social media was overloaded with the posts regarding the importance and contribution of women in everyone's life. Men wished women just as a miser landlord pats the arduous workers' back to encourage them into doing more work for him and some women were ridiculously elated by it. I had noticed various cunning ways in which men befool women and last Tuesday I noticed this novel design of men to keep the women in the delusion that they really care for equal rights of women. Thanks to social media, people now get to know about the special days celebrated for some special reasons and they are eager to prove themselves 'modern' or 'updated' by celebrating those days in this parallel reality. In actual reality, those men who pretend to be firm believers of gender equality and strong upholders of women's right do not give a damn about them. In actual reality, they will never help women redeem themselves from the bondage imposed upon them by the patriarchal sociey and religion. Did you ever see or hear that an oppressor demolished his higher position rendered to him by some authorities and emancipated the oppressed whom he indulged in oppressing? 

A few days ago, in the wake of Hijab-controversy in Karnataka, people, especially those men who never recognize women as equal as themselves, suddenly burst out in support of women's right to wear cloths of their own accord. A burqa-clad woman showed her defiance aganist a mob of some anti-burqa male students and it went viral on social media and digital media as well. Later on, she was applauded by many people. On the surface, it seems to be a noticable change of people mentality in supporting women against the wrongdoings of men. But it is definitely not the case if you analyze the intention of men under the veneer of the whole scenario. That woman was actually not commended for showing her tremendous courage in raising her voice against men but for her protest for allowing women to wear burqa in the school campus. It is to clarify here that I never support what the anti-burqa mob did, rather I emphatically condemn their audacity to corner a woman in that obnoxious fashion. But I daresay that if the woman wore a skirt or shorts and raised her voice against some ogling men, those men, who cried their heart out for women's right to wear their cloths of their own accord, would never have batted an eyelid. And even if some did, they would have blamed the woman for wearing skirts or shorts. Burqa, Sindoor - all these things are symbols of bondages; they represent men's overwhelming dominance over the identity of women wearing them. And men never want to unshackle women of these bondage due to which they exhort women who persist on wearing these shackles in the name of religion or society. 

All these praises and appreciations are just hoax. There is nothing in the society we are living in that is worth celebrating for 'Women's day'. Women are in the same position as they were before 100 years ago. Of course, their male-lords have allowed some relief in certain aspects but those are very little to count for and are entirely meant for their own benefits. Women are now allowed to study, even to pursue higher studies, but only to make themselves preferable for their suitors of higher ranks. Some women are allowed to even do jobs and earn money for their family (especially for her male-lord's family) but they are never given economical independence. Women are now allowed to follow the trending fashion but only to make themselves desirous for their male-lords. Women are allowed to think freely but not against their male-lords' will and wishes. Women's "no" is now understood to be "no" itself but no laws are there in Indian Penal Code or our Constitution to defend women if their male-lords rape them day after day against their will. So women still remain the same slaves, prostitutes and child-producing machines for their husband, lover, partner and above all for men. They are just a necessity for men to serve them and their family- to quench the hunger of men's libido and also of their heart. The process of their exploitation changes in accordance with social and economical strata but their exploitation exists defyingly in every nook of this society. So what's there to celebrate for 'Women's day'? I wish women were eager to understand their abysmal position in our society and in turn, did not fall in the trap of those opportunistic men in the name of religion or society.

~Imran