Tuesday, February 3, 2009

I am still a female

‘In traditional sense women had been a symbol of love and lust. When it comes to selling products it was women .but men are fast escaping this cliché. Men aren’t men anymore –at least not in typical Indian sense.’(Indian Journals of Youth affairs:vol 12(2):July December 2008) I came across these lines recently in an article related to advertising. I had a heartiest laugh. My apologies to the authors. I appreciate their intention with respect to the context.
However, it initiated a different thought in me. The insecurity of custodians of manhood. They seem scared of losing their manhood, at least in a ‘traditional’ sense. Now they have additional parameters coming up to prove their manhood and to their surprise these new parameters are demanded by females. If we trace the history (the time when India slipped into Dark Age), the parameters had always been for females. She has to be pretty, soft spoken, calm and intelligent to be branded as female. She is labeled as goddess so that she can never act as a human being.Godess never complaint or resist afterall.They have this eternal patience and tolerance level. She has to imbibe these characteristics to become a female. She is an evolved sub species of Homo sapiens. Let’s name it Homo sapiens femalis which is culturally more evolved than Homo sapiens malis. To be precise, she has to be what she should be and not what she is.
Males are not god. In none of the verses in the ancient text, he is a god. He has the freedom to be a human being. He has the right to express himself, commit mistakes. Learn from them and move ahead in life. They are suppose to worship the goddess so that she stays calm. Worship by giving her three square meals, kids to play with and being loyal to one version of goddess.

Females are no more goddess now. They are human beings. They experiment, commit mistakes and take concrete lessons from life which are much effective than the lessons being taught traditionally by branding them as goddess. Her experimentation scares the custodian of manhood. The goddess is evolving and they seem confused, how to please her. Some of them have found an easier way by spreading the propaganda that goddess has not remained a goddess. She is undergoing retrogressive evolution from goddess to devil. But personally, I feel happy that she‘ll cross the much awaited human form during this retrogressive evolution from goddess to devil. This would indeed be a moment to celebrate for the females.

and why men are no more men because


‘They are Hot Property! Men are kissing each other, wearing low-slung jeans,stripping at the drop of hat!From the succulent Dhoni to butt revealing Ranbir to beefcake Shah Rukh Khan, men took a women-besotted nation by storm.What is it with new breed of navel bearing sexually liberated men?Are they finally shedding their inhibitions along with their clothes?'
I don’t have an objection with this changing behaviour of men. I reiterate, I am still a female.