Aamir Khan - hats off to him.... i mean the guy recreates himself with every movie.. and now with a show that is hard hitting... The first show on female foeticide touched a lot of people...
I have given a lot of thought about why females are often killed by their own parents... and after a lot of thinking I realised in childhood itself that it boils down to economics!!! Yes, everything is about money, honey.... so for instance it is not far fetched to assume that females are not wanted in society because of the economic strain they cause the parents... the moment a female is born her parents have to fret over her dowry... how will they pay for getting a girl married off? how will poor farmers afford it?? and everyone who has faced that doubt about where they will get their next meal from will understand that it is indeed a really pathetic place to start from as far as raising a family is concerned... in that analysis unfortunately it is the female children that loses out.. a parent would rather have blood on their hands than the commitment to look after her for so many years and then have to pay money to get her married off....
why are women considered an economic burden? simply cos she does not get the same opportunity as a man.... she is not given the opportunity of making any livelihood on her own... she is not standing on her own financial strength in the family ............. and that is not to say that she is wiling away her time... most often her chores around the house of cooking cleaning and looking after the kids is not monetised and hence lacks the respect that these chores deserve..... net net a woman looses out completely...
yes times are changing.. and I would like to believe that women have come a long way in establishing her place in society.... but the sword that hangs over every father when a girl is born cannot be taken away.... or denied... he looks up and he is made to take the decision of allocating limited resources amongst equal and competing claims... and he makes the choice that so many before him have made... that it is best to bet on the know devil (read boy) than an unknown devil... at least the boy wont take the wealth away from his home.... a girl may or may not be around...
It is all a twisted fate... a woman is born with such negative expectations about her that for her to fight and prove herself is itself a task... is it any wonder that most of the high level posts in society are still occupied by men and the few women who occupy are there on account of their men???
which is why my blood boils everytime a smart women drops off from college to pursue marital life.. or a smart woman is forced to leave her career behind when she has a child... why???? cos what did we fight so hard for??? we fought so hard to get recognised as a force to reckon with and then women who give up that opportunity to make a mark sure does a disservice to women everywhere.... I feel women are caught in a bind.. she is judged if she is a career woman and judged if she isnot as well.... both hit her hard enough...
I am sure God did not intend the world to be so cruel for women.. God must have expected men to show some form of maturity in treating their physically weaker counterpart... alas that was not to be ....
