when people ask me what my greatest regret is my biggest regrest is being born a woman!!
now that might be a bit dramatic... but i genuinely feel being born a woman is the biggest drawback God can give anyone... so I completely appreciate it when a woman makes it on her own in life... even the women who have had the support of the husband or father, they would also face a lot of issues in life...
first off is the expectation that kills a woman... you are expected to fit a certain mould... you are supposed to be soft, humane, caring, a good cook, do the household maths efficiently, know how to make a child stop crying, be feminine, be coy, be in the background and be supportive of her man... and if god forbid you have deviated from these, you are ofcourse branded as a deviant ... and then ofcourse there is the eternal pressure to fit into the roles of a "good wife" and a "good mother"... for woman, this more than anything else drags her down.. in an effort to conform, she gives up her job and plunges herself into her new role.... all the time carrying the heavy load on her head of having become completely defunct in the real world... and seeing her peers (men and women) race ahead of her in fame and money... and then ofcourse there is the imminent threat of violence in her life ... be it rape, being molested, being beaten, being locked up....
now with all that, is it any surprise that women choose to remain in the background???
Frankly Manu was right.... the biggest curse in life is to be borne a woman... you were really bad in your previous life to deserve this existence as a woman...
now that might be a bit dramatic... but i genuinely feel being born a woman is the biggest drawback God can give anyone... so I completely appreciate it when a woman makes it on her own in life... even the women who have had the support of the husband or father, they would also face a lot of issues in life...
first off is the expectation that kills a woman... you are expected to fit a certain mould... you are supposed to be soft, humane, caring, a good cook, do the household maths efficiently, know how to make a child stop crying, be feminine, be coy, be in the background and be supportive of her man... and if god forbid you have deviated from these, you are ofcourse branded as a deviant ... and then ofcourse there is the eternal pressure to fit into the roles of a "good wife" and a "good mother"... for woman, this more than anything else drags her down.. in an effort to conform, she gives up her job and plunges herself into her new role.... all the time carrying the heavy load on her head of having become completely defunct in the real world... and seeing her peers (men and women) race ahead of her in fame and money... and then ofcourse there is the imminent threat of violence in her life ... be it rape, being molested, being beaten, being locked up....
now with all that, is it any surprise that women choose to remain in the background???
Frankly Manu was right.... the biggest curse in life is to be borne a woman... you were really bad in your previous life to deserve this existence as a woman...
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