I am all for Women's liberty - be it clothing, vices, lifestyle, social position, education - they have absolute and unequivocal rights, just like men, to lead and pursue their life as they deem appropriate. But why is it that the society takes equality to be a parallel for favouritism or bias? Why is it that we need reservation for seats in public transport - a 20 something suave IT lady gets a reserved seat against a 55 year old banker who stands to glory during his journey? Why is it that a working man has to pay alimony for divorce, but the working woman need not? Why is it, that in some years (heard of Women's reservation bill), a Renuka Chaudhary would be assured of contesting the polls from a parliamentary seat every poll, but a certain Anand Sharma, far more efficient can't contest once in every three polls. If this is not "man" handling, what is? Again I re-iterate - Why is equality taken to be a synonym for discriminative policies?
In fact, the whole idea of the so-called women’s liberation is more against the feminine nature than anything. It is a desperate attempt, because when you try to become like a man, when you try to do things like him, somewhere you are admitting that masculine is superior to feminine. This whole idea of what is superior and what is inferior is a very masculine idea. If you look at life, everything has a role to play. Because you have made one aspect of life too important, it looks like one kind of people are more important than the other kind.
Meanwhile, a new wave of (radical) feminism is also just around the corner. This movement shall have glories of its own - intergenerational and international. All kinds of things have happened in the past. Reacting to that is not the solution. Which way would a woman really be happy in society? We have to look at that without taking what happened yesterday as the basis of what we want to happen tomorrow. The way tomorrow should be, should be different. It should not be in reaction to yesterday. If it happens in reaction, at the most you may reverse the situation, but once again you will suffer because the same things will happen in a different way.
