“Freedom, if truly alive, manifests itself like the invisible air does in
one’s life.”
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The main beef I have with feminists is that they
really don’t understand the magnitude of significance their cause holds towards
a social revolution. These feminists keep
stacking one stopgap measure on another and after a while when the bleeding doesn't stop, nobody takes them seriously.
You see, to cure an injury, not only we have to stop the bleeding but
our immune system needs to clot the blood. Let them work on stopgap; we’ll talk about the
real issue.
Female to male ratio especially in developing
nations is disconcerting to say the least. The pro-life hippies, the priests
and the conservative lot target female feticide and infanticide rampant in the
region because these charlatans don’t want you to face the real issue at hand -
a social stratosphere immensely warped against women. Who is responsible for such heinous realities is
trivial because those monsters have dried up an eon ago, but what keeps oppression simmering should be the topic of self-introspection at night while
staring at the dark, ominous ceiling. This is soul searching and don’t confuse
it with some weird transcendental meditative experience which isn't real.
Such elemental parts of our society’s fabric as
religion, deism and marriage are nothing but socially imposed oppression sugarcoated with romantic notions. I have
to give some credit to these priests and the conservative lot for figuring out that
their existence is justified till women are the weakest link in the society. But
let’s not forget that unmarried does not mean not in love or incapable of being
a parent or part of a lifelong relationship.
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Hence, in every walk of life - financial,
educational, physical, sexual and perceptual – women should be treated equally
to men if we care to solve the problem. Lack
of education (in developing nations), the vicious circle of reproduction and
the resulting preconceived notion of dependency is what women need to be
liberated from. Studies show an educated
and financially independent woman is less likely to marry in her 20s or marry
at all than her counterpart. And once a woman has complete control on her birthing
patterns, she lifts herself beyond unplanned responsibilities and financial
burdens. If she can live independently,
she would probably prefer it.
But since these oppressions jut out from within us,
they are the most difficult to tackle as this requires a protest against
ourselves and the belief systems etched into our genes for centuries. So, we don’t.
We’d rather have a government which tackles these oppressions with more
legislative oppressions than to face ourselves.
Most of the bans that our governments have in place
are beyond me on a fundamental level. I
have always believed that government’s role is to liberate us from anything
that threatens the cause of freedom in the first place but I might just be shooting
Dixie out of my rear end. We must not
forget that the writers of the constitutions were part of the society as well.
We have criminal laws against rape, but not universal abortion rights. We have criminal
laws against domestic violence, but our governments also recognize marital
unions. This schizophrenic government is a mirror
reflection of us.
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Government should lift the anti-abortion laws, laws
that benefit and propound marital unions and the anti-drug laws but the story will
not end there. Freedom of abortion alone
is naturally going to exacerbate low female to male ratio and failure to
recognize marriage alone will harm financially dependent women. Any retardation of freedom, and the key word
is any, is retardation of freedom in entirety.
We must not only lift legislative bans but liberate ourselves from
socially imposed oppressions as well.
As a non sequitur, the reason you love those
rebellious Bollywood romances is because you wanted your love story to be like
that. But, alas, your story sucks.
