As I look over an aerobics class in office, intuitively I find the lone guy in class as a ‘misfit’ in session. I wonder why is it that perceived feminine activities like yoga, aerobics, skipping, shopping are a complete no no for men while perceived male activities like gyming , basketball, martial arts are acceptable or rather cool when performed by women.
Answer how so ever unfair but is the reality “The world is biased towards us” ( why not after all we are the fairer , smarter specie :P). The choices, be it the activities or dress or career or studies are always more of us. We can choose to be a home maker concerned about the family who has sacrificed her career or a working mother doing the multitasking of efficiently managing work and house. While for the lesser fortunate beings , I mean the males , the idea of being a homemaker is surely going to attract a lot of stares and also the risk of being termed as ‘good for nothing’, even if he manages to balance house and work this unfair world won’t give him the credit.
We can wear feminine wear like salwar suit, sari or we can wear trousers and shirts, umpteen options to choose from. I need to even mention the consequences if the lesser fortunate beings happen to wear anything else other then the limited one or two option they have. I can buy a pink car as easily as a black one , I can ride a scooty as well as a bike , I can earn and yet take money from lesser fortunates.
Reserved seats in public transport, paid bills on dates, reserved seats in colleges and public offices, better looks, more attention, more demand are some among the infinite advantages of being a woman.
Emotional as I am, my heart cries for the atrocities one has to face being a male. I look for answers to explain this bias, I revisit the Upanishads course I took in my post graduation. I find the reason for their current state is none other than ‘karma’ , it is their past karma that they will have to repay in this life time.
But as the more fortunate specie we have a responsibility to make a better world bearable) for the less fortunate ones, to make them feel significant we the female fraternity feigns of being poor drivers, possessing no direction sense, poor at mathematics. In return we get those looks from the lesser fortunate ones ‘one area where we can prove our existence’, sole look of winning on your faces, even though we achieve it after unpretentious underplay of our skills makes our day .
" A man on date wonders whether he will get lucky , a woman already knows "
Answer how so ever unfair but is the reality “The world is biased towards us” ( why not after all we are the fairer , smarter specie :P). The choices, be it the activities or dress or career or studies are always more of us. We can choose to be a home maker concerned about the family who has sacrificed her career or a working mother doing the multitasking of efficiently managing work and house. While for the lesser fortunate beings , I mean the males , the idea of being a homemaker is surely going to attract a lot of stares and also the risk of being termed as ‘good for nothing’, even if he manages to balance house and work this unfair world won’t give him the credit.
We can wear feminine wear like salwar suit, sari or we can wear trousers and shirts, umpteen options to choose from. I need to even mention the consequences if the lesser fortunate beings happen to wear anything else other then the limited one or two option they have. I can buy a pink car as easily as a black one , I can ride a scooty as well as a bike , I can earn and yet take money from lesser fortunates.
Reserved seats in public transport, paid bills on dates, reserved seats in colleges and public offices, better looks, more attention, more demand are some among the infinite advantages of being a woman.
Emotional as I am, my heart cries for the atrocities one has to face being a male. I look for answers to explain this bias, I revisit the Upanishads course I took in my post graduation. I find the reason for their current state is none other than ‘karma’ , it is their past karma that they will have to repay in this life time.
But as the more fortunate specie we have a responsibility to make a better world bearable) for the less fortunate ones, to make them feel significant we the female fraternity feigns of being poor drivers, possessing no direction sense, poor at mathematics. In return we get those looks from the lesser fortunate ones ‘one area where we can prove our existence’, sole look of winning on your faces, even though we achieve it after unpretentious underplay of our skills makes our day .
" A man on date wonders whether he will get lucky , a woman already knows "
Believe me males are happy being how they are Aarti :-) And we love it when girls bike, gym, wear trousers and attend Karate classes...
ReplyDeleteI would suggest you never look at the female sex ratio in our country - it might break all your illusions to how poor men are treated in this country.
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