I don't know what to title this post.. A subject, which everyone knows about, and still ignores.. Because they only feel apathy towards it all..
Try being a woman,walking down the road.. You'll see.. rather, feel the male gaze at the back of your head.. Don't even think about it in a crowded bus.. Jostling near the ladies side is a favourite passtime of many a male.
Have men never seen women before??
A woman wearing jeans is looked at, stared at, as if she's an alien and is new to the planet.. whereas every second woman on the road is wearing one.
What i don't understand is, if you can wear jeans, why can't I ?
Why am I expected to toe the traditional line and wear something "demure" like the salwar? Do you don traditional attire everytime you step out of the house?
Why should I be told what to wear and what not to?
And, Who are you to tell me?
Do I keep staring at you when you wear earrings, initially a "girl" concept ??
The problem is when someone utters something and goes off in the opposite direction, I normally do not have time to go after him. When I say "I", I signify the general woman. And even if I do have time, what do I tell him? Half the time I do not understand what the person utters.
I can't go slap him in the face.. He might say he never spoke to me in the first place and then I might have to suffer a backlash from the crowd, which would definitely have gathered by then....
Filing a complaint with the police is a farce. What is the maximum that can happen? He might have to spend the evening on a bench in the station,gossiping with the constable.. And then when he comes out, he starts looking for me, vengeance in mind!!!!
So,all I do is swallow the anger, and keep walking as if the guy doesn't exist.
But what if you keep facing these problems everyday? Do you just pray to God that "One Fine Day" it should all stop?? Do you start wearing "demure" dresses??
Why should you? It's the male who needs to change.If he doesn't, you go your way and he'll find his..
If he can wear trousers,so can she. When he studies,so does she, better than many.. When he goes to work, so does she. Do males feel jealous? Are they wary of the extra competition from the oppsite sex? What really is the problem with people??
Only men know.. The "Male Chauvinism" is yet to be vanquished..
"I'm a male and She'll do as I say.."
If she doesn't, she's characterless..
You are SO FULL of it, "character", when you stare at a girl your sister's age, just because she's wearing jeans.. After all, how dare she? Jeans is the birthright of males.. Females cannot usurp that right can they now?
