Somehow, I can never give up on the hardcore--Feminist.... that I am...
8th March 2012--- amidst Holi and International Women's Day...got so confused...that I preferred to sit back and read something!!
How would an ideal Women's Day in a country like India be?
Especially...on an occasion like Holi, where going out on roads alone is forbidden...because wolves are out there ....you can't think of walking alone at odd hours....if you do that..you are odd for that matter...!
You can't wear short dresses---(WE ARE NOT Talking about the one's who can)...but I am sure a million would just wish to wear a beautiful skirt on a sunny day, or a pair of shorts with a bright t-shirt...
Every mother, says this to her adolescent daughter at some point---" If you will not cut your wings....you will fly, and dare you do, because if you will you would be outcast-ed, relatives will not accept you, no one will marry you (as if it is her only aim), worst case you could be raped, if you'd not stop....Stop to dream, aim".
And so she sits back....!!
And with time, she learns to put aside...everything...her desires, dreams, dresses she wished to wear...and she kills the 3 D's in life......
To the hypocrite society....that boasts off change...!
Travel or speak to someone very basic....and you can so conclude...that we are running 30 years behind when it comes to being just to the womenfolk...!
A friend in London tells me, its all OK there...
Life is fair
Life is hassle free
Life is smooth,
Everyone is an equal, girls/women/females party all night...do whatever they want...and as he tells me this....I picture the story here....
Out all night....yeah yeah...in your dreams,it might be !
All fair...looks like fair when you view it from the upper circuit/strata of society....but the system....our way of dealing with this issue has been unfair otherwise...
And the more I think...the more I feel miserable because I cannot go door to door and change mentalities....
So , today ....when I should be rather sitting with my girlfriends and grabbing a piece of Blueberry Chesse Cake....I am sinking and sulking with thoughts of disgust and despair...!
I enjoy the freedom I have....always had..but somehow it would have been better if we all did....if all the birds were free...and not caged, chained...!!
I am not a fairy to paint the town all white and pure.....
so here I end...!!
This one's a song....that so describes US!!
and wouldn't be any better than Billy Joel telling us....."She's Always a Woman"!!
