It was a pleasant day yesterday and I and my husband
ventured out for a cup of coffee. He hates coffee but loves me and in a blink
of eye takes me out when I am craving for coffee. After enjoying my cup we
marched out of the café. Being genteel, my husband pulled out the door for this
educated smart sikh couple simultaneously entering the café. This guy did not
even have the courtesy to say thanks. He barged in, not bothering to hold the
door for his wife, left her out with a shut door.
What is it about females that make us so vulnerable?
Since ancient times, females have been manifested as the
home bearer and men as the bread earner. Times have changed and centuries have
passed still we can easily find markings of this old philosophy in our society.
Be it educated, rich or poor it is still rooted in many people. Guess blaming
men is not correct. It was Eve, a woman, who accepted the responsibility as a
home bearer. But blaming her all together does not do any good because we can
say for sure whether Adam respected her equally as she did or not. It is
something about the female sect that we love carrying this torch and yet grieve
about it. See the issue is not who will cook tonight and who will wash the
dishes, rather being tight spotted is what my sect declines. It is about the
whole perception of few men that this blog is all about.
From the time of our birth, every girl dreams of having her
own home, pampering her interior decorator, relishing being a devoted wife and cherishing
being a mother. In any relationship, divided duties and equal respect bring out
the best in both partners. Our semantically complex world has many untapped
areas and seems like we have mentally accepted victory on being a home bearer
and wish to claim victory on other designations. Yet we have males and females
like my yesterday’s collision. It saddens me watching men behave so
disrespectful to their spouses, mother of his kids and even deepens the grief
when females accept such decorum thus inculcate same etiquettes in their kids. Maybe
these couples are so engrossed in their duties that they have forgotten being
cultured towards each other.
We are being taught in schools to respect each other yet few
boys end up being man disrespecting their mothers and wives. How can we claim
that our education is intact and we are growing as an economy when basic humane
conduct is not being injected in our generations? When kids are toddlers,
imparting them this vital schooling is way too important than expecting masters
and degrees when they finish their education. Rather it needs to be a crucial
duty of parents to transmit etiquettes to their little angels so that we don’t have
men dishonoring women.
“It is a man’s job to respect women but it’s a women’s job to give him
something to respect…”