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Today I watched a video titled "what women want" which showed the contrasting views of Indian men and Indian women on the subject of the wishes of the latter. The makers interviewed general public (though I suspect those people were in cahoots with the makers) and not much to anyone's surprise they just showed how petty thinking men have and just think all women want money or someone who has money. In the other part of the video they showed how different women are and wish for better sanitation services, security, equal rights, etc.
I'm not pointing out anyone but things like these are getting old. Do such videos still go viral? Anyway, if someone ever asked me- "what women want"; I would first like to tell that person that the question itself is sexist (ironical, isn't it?) as you can't ask what women want, I mean, they're not any different species than us who will have a similar habitat and requirements all over. They are practically half of the whole human race. How can such a large division have desires in a single category of things, let alone a single thing. Every woman's desire would be different and I don't think desires should be based on the fact that you're a man or woman.
Such videos show women as some kind of a strange and mysterious beings about whom men have no clue what to think and not think. I think such videos make the line of distinction between both counterparts more visible whereas both are just two subcategories of the same species. I don't understand why people make such a big fuss out of it. Frankly, I don't even see any difference between the two (other than the obvious, duh). We are humans, male and female all alike, then why do we have to show one as reckless and ignorant and the other as misunderstood and prejudiced?
Why can't we just move on and raise our voices if we see bias instead of showing how much people don't know about Indian women?
And whenever someone talks about women they suddenly become as if they're addressing each and every female in the world. Its like its some kind of a secret society of which all women are part of. Men and women both should just think of themselves and each other as just normal people (persons, individual, homo sapiens whatever you call it). Yeah, your achievement isn't bigger if you're of a particular sex nor does your mistakes reflect themselves as a shortfall of a whole class of humans. Each person is different and should be treated like that. Attaching all good things or bad things to a particular sex is being biased. And in political terms, I don't think women want empowerment but if empowerment is the way to equality then denying it to them is inhuman.
C'mon world, how difficult could it be to treat all humans equal?
Today I watched a video titled "what women want" which showed the contrasting views of Indian men and Indian women on the subject of the wishes of the latter. The makers interviewed general public (though I suspect those people were in cahoots with the makers) and not much to anyone's surprise they just showed how petty thinking men have and just think all women want money or someone who has money. In the other part of the video they showed how different women are and wish for better sanitation services, security, equal rights, etc.
I'm not pointing out anyone but things like these are getting old. Do such videos still go viral? Anyway, if someone ever asked me- "what women want"; I would first like to tell that person that the question itself is sexist (ironical, isn't it?) as you can't ask what women want, I mean, they're not any different species than us who will have a similar habitat and requirements all over. They are practically half of the whole human race. How can such a large division have desires in a single category of things, let alone a single thing. Every woman's desire would be different and I don't think desires should be based on the fact that you're a man or woman.
Such videos show women as some kind of a strange and mysterious beings about whom men have no clue what to think and not think. I think such videos make the line of distinction between both counterparts more visible whereas both are just two subcategories of the same species. I don't understand why people make such a big fuss out of it. Frankly, I don't even see any difference between the two (other than the obvious, duh). We are humans, male and female all alike, then why do we have to show one as reckless and ignorant and the other as misunderstood and prejudiced?
Why can't we just move on and raise our voices if we see bias instead of showing how much people don't know about Indian women?
And whenever someone talks about women they suddenly become as if they're addressing each and every female in the world. Its like its some kind of a secret society of which all women are part of. Men and women both should just think of themselves and each other as just normal people (persons, individual, homo sapiens whatever you call it). Yeah, your achievement isn't bigger if you're of a particular sex nor does your mistakes reflect themselves as a shortfall of a whole class of humans. Each person is different and should be treated like that. Attaching all good things or bad things to a particular sex is being biased. And in political terms, I don't think women want empowerment but if empowerment is the way to equality then denying it to them is inhuman.
C'mon world, how difficult could it be to treat all humans equal?
"The author thinks a masculinist and a feminist are the same thing if both of them want equality."
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