Deep within, she’s a shy girl. Just like a lot of Indian girls. Her day starts with making chai for Papaji and ends with dreaming about her marriage. She lives in a city and pursues high-level education. She wears short clothes and goes partying every now and then. She must be an open-minded modern girl. But what she doesnt tell anyone is the way she has been looked at and touched. Those details are best kept unrevealed. She believes, despite of all the gender equality stuff going around , that being at girl comes with certain default social settings. After all, a girl is a girl and a boy is a boy, just like her father says when she argues about the differences in her and her brother’s curfew. She has male friends. According to her, it is their duty to protect her when they are with her. Because they are Men. When they’re not around, she thinks she is helpless. She wants to be an independent woman with a job. Also, she dreams of marrying a man with a career shinier than her own. She has accepted the fact that if harassed, the best thing to do is to personally keep quiet about it and hand the situation over to her father or brother. All the heroes vowing to protect their heroines have taught her that she has to be protected. She sympathises with all the rape and molestation victims the keep surfacing in the news. Also, she prefers to keep quiet about discussing the details of such issues unless necessary. Today she watches the news on TV about a girl beaten to death because she refused to submit to the man wanting to rape her. She sympathises with the girl, feels he rage to kick the man in the groin, but she also thinks that the girl should have submitted to the man instead of fighting back and risking her life. Her mind is a chaos of the so-called traditional, cultural values and the modern age women- empowering, feminist-feeding ideologies thrown together in a mess. She is modern, but shy within. Empowered, yet weak. She is at her most vulnerable. Just like a lot of Indian girls. The girl on TV dies one death, but she? She dies a hundred deaths daily. Just like a lot of Indian girls. Injected with a false sense of Empowerment and Pseudo-feminism. Credits: Rishu Jaiswal
Posted on: Wed, 24 Dec 2014 12:57:59 +0000
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