Hows it like being a woman??!!. Every single second of my life, I have always felt proud being a woman. I have never felt that my woman hood stops me from achieving something in life. Today's woman is perceived to be nothing less than a 'super woman'. She works 8 hrs a day (if only more) shoulder to shoulder with her male counterparts, where she is faced with extremely challenging situations as her male counterparts. She also has to face that 'khadoos boss' or an irritating colleague.
She is expected to be back home on time, prepare a four course dinner and manage the household chores, manage the kids single handed. Its like we are put on a marathon. After one point of time (of course marriage) you are supposed to just run. There is no time where in you can just stop, sit back and spent some time for yourself.
I remember one of my married friends telling me, "enjoy your time now Poorni. Once you are married, you would never get time for yourself."
Yes, I am a woman. I work shoulder to shoulder with my male counterparts, and to be in the race I need to outperform them. Yea I am a woman...!! But the society sees me through a colored glass. "You are a woman...you are not supposed to stay late, if you do...then your security is your responsibility". Is it a crime being a woman??
A teen was molested in public by a mob in Guwahati, right on our streets? What are we coming to. Shame on us India, shame on the media...who stood there recording the whole incident rather than trying to act. The justification given by the spokesperson of that particular media was 'our camera person and reporter couldn't do anything as they were a mob of 20 people'; the same statement proved wrong when the reporter said, what started of with 6 boys later turned to 20.
As far as the media were concerned, they had struck gold. Airing footage of a woman being molested by a bunch of criminal minds was definitely something that would send their TRPs sky rocketing. To all those people who said, 'she was partying late into night, she invited trouble'. Come on...!! I thought we were living in a free country. Just because I am a woman, you cannot compromise my right to decision.
Every other instance, when an attack occurs over a woman, the media celebrates it for some time till they get another 'political juicy drama' or a terrorist attack. Then everything is gone for good.
In a country where Jessica Lall was shot dead in the wee hours in a bar, where a bunch of mad people bet up women in a pub in Mangalore in the name of moral policing, where a battered Baby Falak succumbed to Cardiac arrest, where every 26 minutes a woman is molested, every 34 minutes a woman is raped, I feel sick to say that 'I am a Woman'.
You work shoulder to shoulder with your male counterparts.
She is expected to be back home on time, prepare a four course dinner and manage the household chores, manage the kids single handed. Its like we are put on a marathon. After one point of time (of course marriage) you are supposed to just run. There is no time where in you can just stop, sit back and spent some time for yourself.
I remember one of my married friends telling me, "enjoy your time now Poorni. Once you are married, you would never get time for yourself."
Yes, I am a woman. I work shoulder to shoulder with my male counterparts, and to be in the race I need to outperform them. Yea I am a woman...!! But the society sees me through a colored glass. "You are a woman...you are not supposed to stay late, if you do...then your security is your responsibility". Is it a crime being a woman??
A teen was molested in public by a mob in Guwahati, right on our streets? What are we coming to. Shame on us India, shame on the media...who stood there recording the whole incident rather than trying to act. The justification given by the spokesperson of that particular media was 'our camera person and reporter couldn't do anything as they were a mob of 20 people'; the same statement proved wrong when the reporter said, what started of with 6 boys later turned to 20.
As far as the media were concerned, they had struck gold. Airing footage of a woman being molested by a bunch of criminal minds was definitely something that would send their TRPs sky rocketing. To all those people who said, 'she was partying late into night, she invited trouble'. Come on...!! I thought we were living in a free country. Just because I am a woman, you cannot compromise my right to decision.
Every other instance, when an attack occurs over a woman, the media celebrates it for some time till they get another 'political juicy drama' or a terrorist attack. Then everything is gone for good.
In a country where Jessica Lall was shot dead in the wee hours in a bar, where a bunch of mad people bet up women in a pub in Mangalore in the name of moral policing, where a battered Baby Falak succumbed to Cardiac arrest, where every 26 minutes a woman is molested, every 34 minutes a woman is raped, I feel sick to say that 'I am a Woman'.
You work shoulder to shoulder with your male counterparts.
