Women’s Freedom
What is freedom for feminism? Why is it delayed and discussed
very often but never delivered?
Can it be achieved if it is approached like a macroeconomic
project or do we require the attitudinal changes to be effected at micro level?
The freedom gets delayed very often due to the very way and
the terminological / the doctrinal cages within which we discuss and debate the
issue.
Again the mistake is reducing one gender of human beings as
only physical objects and discussing everything around that premise but unfortunately
that is and has been the trend from time immemorial.
The malady is not confined to only casting women in the mold
of certain shapes, sizes and figures, the insult goes beyond merely physical it
goes on to psychological, social, cultural, religious etc biases based on
various factors many of which are justified as aspects of tradition, as if all
other aspects of tradition, involving men are carried on intact.
The role of women has been required to be the same whereas that
of men have changed and enjoyed all the privileges, sometimes at the cost of
women, from the time men were, at least some, hunting tribes to now haunting
rapists.
This does not mean that I am pandering to some ultra revolutionist
ideas to score some brownie points But this also does not mean that we must
forsake or forget or view negatively à la certain professional feminist groups questioning
the importance given to certain biologically determined superior roles that the feminine gender is blessed with [like
being a mother and giving birth to another life] as if it is a limiting factor
, on the contrary what a great joy and privilege it is, to be a mother.
Two dangerous approaches which will never allow larger
sections of human beings the actual plight/progress preventing aspects of womanhood
are: - one scripting sensational stuffs, adrenal provoking preaching or leftists’
one sided sloganeering with a selective/narrow hidden agenda/propaganda of
finding faults or provoking a sense of perennial victim hood only with
particular social/religious systems and two producing sickening status quo
promoting far rightists’ traditionalism.
Both these approaches prevent us from taking notice of /being
aware of how the whole society inflicts pain, indoctrinates its predefined identities
on womanhood and curtails their freedom in many areas of activities, and, in
addition, these approaches also prevent us from gradually rectifying the
mistake at every micro level within each family by creating atmospheres to
ensure enough freedom to women as very often to deny freedom to them men have
very handy existing literature,
prejudices, traditions etc to justify the stand.
Constant ideological indoctrination has also erased self
love from the hearts of many women.
So, through these write ups I have tried my level best to
portray my observations, reactions [ of appreciation and empathy towards women] and disgust at social perceptions and
treatment and how they impact the lives of women in general. Some of these have
been published in some magazines long back.
and every woman must use this small booklet
