While returning from the doctor’s clinic at about 7pm on the late evening of 31 Dec 2010, what I saw and experienced made me completely cynical of the Indian testosterone.
People on the streets were in a mood for celebration. Now when I say people, it is particularly emphasized that there were hardly any women to be seen. The men, (‘testosterone charged beings’ as I call them) were staring and ogling excessively at almost al the available, faint traces of femininity they could manage to find on the street.
This made me wonder from where these men get the idea that whenever there is a reason to celebrate; they can get drunk and charge upon any female who passes by.
According to my limited knowledge, nowhere it is said that on the New Year’s Eve, the streets are reserved for men. Then why is it that we find absolutely no woman out on the streets of the metro?
Does this mean that even in public, amidst the presence and protection of her family, a woman is vulnerable? If the answer to the last question is in the affirmative, then why the bloody hell is this country called a democracy? Is India then, a country of the educated but uncivilized?
Shame on you, me and every other citizen of this country for turning a blind eye to this kind of bastardize!
Another question that needs an answer from this society is- “what is a woman?”
A womb? A body? A vaginal opening?
All agree in recognizing the fact that females exist in the human species. Today, as always, they make up about one half of humanity. And yet we are told that femininity is in danger. If today femininity no longer exists, then it never existed. But does the word “woman” then have no specific content?
This is not a note on feminism because the subject is irritating and enough ink has already been spilled quarrelling over feminism. I wrap up by borrowing a few lines from “Modern Woman: The Lost Sex” by Dorothy Parker, (which in other respects has its irritating features), ‘......my idea is that all of us, men as well as women should be regarded as human beings.....:
Happy 2011!
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