Followers

22.8.13

REPLY TO A CHAUVINIST

A REPLY TO YOU AND TO MEN AND WOMEN WITH YOUR POINT OF VIEW


Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when you would make me feel assured of traveling in public transport without being harassed and invaded as if my body is not mine and the misogynistic men has the right to poke their penises at our butt cleavages. There wouldn't be a ladies reservation if women weren't groped, harassed and molested every day by these men.
Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when you would make rape unacceptable even if the victim is wearing a bikini in the middle of maidan.
Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when you will stop blaming a victim for her rape. "Oh no! What a slut, drinking in pub, rightly served." "Oh no, what a whore, wearing such dresses and hoping not to get raped." "Oh my dharma, out in street so late at night. This was bound to happen."
Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when you totally eradicate "sati" from whole of India.
Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when you stop blaming the entire gender if a single lady fails at something like "She is a woman, ofcourse she is too weak for the job."
Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when you can create such environment in all industry where the women are not told to give sexual favors for perks.
Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when you stop watching porns which degrade women and which tells, "Women love to be raped". Sex is about love and mind more than anything.
Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when you would do your part in taking your stand against dowry, gender-based foeticide, gender-based infanticide, bride-burning, acid-attacks, honor-killings.
Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when women all over the world would be taken as human beings, given value as much more than baby-making machines and sex-dump.
Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when the value of women all over the world is not determined by their intact hymen.
Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when baby girls are allowed to go out and play as much as the baby boys without the fear that she might be raped or harassed.
Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when you go out and do your role in standing against calling of men who sleep around just "boys" and women who does the same as "sluts"
Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when you would assure me that I would not have to worry about the message my wardrobe sends out about my sexual availability or gender conformity.
Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when women can be aggressive just as men without the fear of being called a "bitch".
Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when women lineage is considered just as important as man lineage and is not expected to change her title after marriage.
Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when women, however much or however less she is capable of earning, she is not the only one expected to do all the household chores.
Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when you take your part in standing against women objectification in ads, billboards, movies.
Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when you would stop thinking all women as weak because I’m fucking not!!!
Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when you stop barring women from entering tombs.
Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when you stop barring women from entering religious places just because she is menstruating.
Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when you stop scaling attractiveness of women based on the size of her breasts.
Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when you stop saying women are designed to be sexually cold, because there you are fucking wrong!!! We are just more civilized than men and do not pounce on victims everytime our vaginas become wet.
Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when you would take your stand against people who say "women must not masturbate" meanwhile men must do it everyday.
Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when you would not remark derogatorily for women who watch pornographic films because trust me as this, in India, more men watch pornography than women.
Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when you would be successful at teaching men that when talking to anyone, they should be looking at the eyes and not staring below it.
Oh yes I will do something about ladies reservation everywhere when you first see your privileges before pointing fingers at the privileges of the OPPRESSED.
Trust me at this, just as Padma Lakshmi said, “I’m a woman, but I don’t expect any special treatment for being woman. WHAT I DO EXPECT IS THE SAME TREATMENT AS MEN.”
When the day comes that men are harassed, molested and groped day in and day out they can demand for men-only reservations. AS of now, every space is male-only and exclusionary to women in India.