Woman dictators?

Woman generals who mass murder men and rape them for revenge?

Let’s look at the term “empowerment”.

According to the dictionary, it means authority given to someone to do something.

Fair enough, don’t you think?

Our social arrangement doesn’t allow a woman to take time off her daily chores, even while she is burning down with fever or writhing in menstrual cramps.

As a man, I would come back from work and be tired enough not to make myself a cup of coffee.

But, I will expect my working wife to look after the kids, cook, do the dishes, take care of my dirty laundry and provide me with all kinds of worldly pleasures before falling off to sleep!

That doesn’t sound quite right, does it?

I, as a man, could make some efforts to once be caring enough to make her that cup of coffee when she gets home after a very tiring day.

In the morning, I could give her a break from the kitchen and treat her with delicious breakfast!

Ready the kids and drop them off to school so she could lie on bed sleep late, relax a little, when she needs it!

These are simple gestures a man can make to lighten up a woman’s life.

Such ordinary actions can act as a token of appreciation for all the effort they put in to build a healthy and virtuous household.

We need to change thoughts and break stereotypes.

As men we need to realize that there is nothing ‘unmanly’ about us doing the dishes once in a while; at least in the Indian context.

We need to get in their shoes and see the world with their eyes to feel the constant pain and oppression they have suffered since ages.

In other words, they just need us men, to be more understanding and less demanding.

That would be quite enough to make them feel entrusted and free.

Even physical intimacy seems the domain of the man.

Life is easier for men to express their physical desires whereas women are just judged to be ‘desperate’ and ‘naturally’ lack character, where as in reality, it is just a basic biological need of the human body just like anything else.

This is a world where we talk of living in unity… among castes, creed, races and nations… then why not among the sexes?

Every human being has the right to live life at his/her will.

Why is a there a constant need in us men to expect our women to conform?

We don’t really have to sacrifice much.

We just need to lessen our egos and let go of all the chauvinism to make things easier for the opposite gender.

Understand the needs of each other and act mature.

Not extremely difficult to achieve, I presume? I hope you agree with me on this.

Won’t you?

 

— Image credit: the United Nations