Just couldn't stop myself from penning this down. We have changed a lot in our behavior towards women and the third gender. However, even the equal status of the two most prevalent fabrics of the society, men and women is far from achieved. Gender equality and gender neutrality are the two most worked upon and talked about jargon when it comes to working in advancements towards the development of women. The structural fabric of violence against women is based on patriarchy and misogyny.
On the flip side, the mere idea of feminism is being misconstrued as the idea of hating men. The correct word choice for a man-hater is a misandrist. Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.
Ladies First - counter logic, if there is equality, why should one be privileged over the other?
Women’s Reservation - doesn’t reservation make one a privileged class. How is the call for equality justified then?
Let me be a bit of a devil’s advocate in a broad sense. Gender equality means there shouldn’t be any discrimination among genders. Right? I like to define the term as ‘men and women are complementary to each other’. My argument is that gender equality means equal respect and equal remuneration in the same performance in their exclusive domain. Once you have said equal opportunity in every space, then ‘reservations’, ‘separate events’ etc. defeat the purpose.
