Women's day 2009

It was yet another Women's day and nothing to celebrate about. Yes, we did hear commercials screaming out celebrate your woman-hood, but the sentiment hardly resonates when we look at reality. Even the women are done celebrating one day as womens day I guess, cos any woman I wished showed a luke warm response as if to suggest "Who cares a damn". So are we to say that women have become cynical or have they just resigned to fate. I hope for the happiness of the world this is not true.

Everywhere, you hear about crime against women whether it is harassment at work, domestic violence or say teenage crimes (date rapes etc.) and what you see often, is that the attitude seems to suggest, why make sucha a big deal about something thats so regular. Even the women have accepted it as a part of life and that is a dangerous thing. I am no bra-burning feminism theorist but it is my firm belief that the maker made no difference when he moulded women as compared to men.

We have reduced women to being a holy cow, in the name of reverence towards her and protecting her, we time and again inflict blows on her self-confidence. Such telling blows, that it dents the phyche and either makes her surrender to fate or stand up to the agressor and be called "woman of loose morals". In recent past we have seen many such "stray incidents" which cannot hide a pattern underneath all pointing towards one thing "women can never be seen as equal to men".

The next time we see a woman being attacked, (in broad daylight or ortherwise) lets take a moment to think, how would you like if your sister/wife/fiancee/girlfriend/friend was attacked and there was no one to stop it. Imagine that helpless situation, and if you dont want to be in that situation, then take up the cause of any woman you see in trouble cos u never know today's incident thats left unchecked may return and harm someone close to you and maybe in larger proportions.

This women's day lets take an oath that "Even if I cannot improve the status of women in this world, atleast I will not play a role in degrading it" cos if a woman can bring you to this world, there is hardly anything that she can't do :)

So long...