Thursday, 7 November 2013

Why is it said that Feminism is vulnerable?

If vulnerability is the worst case scenario and I being contradictory hate the fact that women are treated vulnerable; even a head- strong women at given time phase surrenders to this emotion. It not a woman phenomena rather a human phenomena, it is an extreme uncouth manner in which the society target only women to be vulnerable.

Sometimes I feel what feminism is:

Is it my point of view or the way I question things?
Is it the need to prove that women can take on the world by themselves?
Is gender being navigated by culture or is it always about culture and not gender?
A lone woman is termed vulnerable why not a lone man?
Marriage is essential for a woman at a given age why isn't the same for a man?
Is it traditionally masculine to not display your emotions and thus if you do, it is termed into feminine?

If we try to distance ourselves from emotions and refuse to be taken care of, we are said to be practical and if we do we are denoted as vulnerable.

So what is the concept of feminism trying to achieve?

I read this somewhere that, “The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians.” I learnt this was written by Pat Robertson, who famously said this in the 90's.

Yes I am a feminist, but I don't hate men, or think every man is a rapist, or think every man has evil intentions but I just hope that there was no bias and we could live in gender equality.

Someone once told me ‘Men and Women are similar not equal’ rather if he would have told me ‘Men and Women are different but are equal’, it would have been more agreeable.

Psychological it is noted that showing your emotions in public is an attribute of an individual who is mentally strong but hiding emotions are the qualities of a vulnerable person, thus showcasing that we are emotionally vulnerable could make us seem rather strong, wont it?

Feminist or non –Feminist, I feel every woman has an urge to prove herself, try so hard in this so called Man’s world. Deriving to the fact…that every driving force is not needed to be termed as feminism, rather subjective but it’s a normal human tendency, to be bigger and better.

Few people tend women to be nothing more than sex objects or baby machines but I don’t mean to say that all are like that. Many a times we are taught what is acceptable by boys and what is acceptable by girls. Who made this gender differentiation? We are taught to care about, and attend to others before attending to ourselves or acknowledging it that we too need care. I wonder who made this universal set of rules that we all abide to, irrespective of our language or even sometimes our culture.

Somehow I have come to a point that being a feminist its not what triggers me rather its the thought of discrimination that instigates me. Discrimination between a girl and a boy, between rich and poor, between able and the disable. 

Sometimes I find myself becoming defiant on what the society expects out of me…sometimes I feel the society is strange and sometimes I reach to a given point, nevertheless I am being Ambivalent!






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