women's empowerment has five components:
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Women’s sense of self-worth;
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Their right to have and
to determine choices;
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Their right to have access to opportunities and resources;
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Their right to have the
power to control their own lives, both within and outside the home;
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Their ability to influence the direction of social change to
create a more just social and economic orders, nationally and
internationally.
Indian women have the same rights as far as
her choices agree with mine. A patriarchal society decides what you get to do
and what you don’t; what’s the big deal with that? People get murdered every
day so your freedom is not a top priority right now, so sit tight. We will get
back to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is our reality and the little sparks that
can actually make a difference we criticize. For instance “My Choice”. 8
million views and most of us didn't even get the point.
Let’s be honest it doesn't really cover every aspect
of women empowerment. But what little they said was damn important. And nobody
paid attention because everybody was busy lodging their complaint against sex
outside of marriage and the rest of the message just went way over most
people’s head.
So through this post I would like to discuss why
a small so called offensive phrase caused a nationwide attention deficit and
what certain smart people made out from the video.
My body, my mind, my choice that is all it is.
It doesn't endorse anything else. It just states the obvious choices that there
are. It never tells or asks you to have sex outside of marriage, not have a
child or come home at four in the morning. It just tells that these are options
that have eternally been available to your male counterpart and if you want to
do that, it is all right. After all every rule should apply to the whole species
right?
As for infidelity why is it that when the
husband is at fault you forgive and forget and if you were ever to do the same
it is the biggest crime ever. Don’t you think that if you had the same kind of
liberties, your partner would be a lot more careful with his choices? And in
the end, men if you are devoted husbands who get cheated on by their wives just
get a divorce. Why the ruckus?
The liberty to dress as you like doesn't necessarily
translate into everyone walking around naked. It just means that I, a woman, get
to wear what I am comfortable in whether it is cargo pants or a saree. My own
school had a dress code that banned wearing full length jeans and the recommended
choice, a saree. Well guess what, I am not comfortable with my stomach showing,
now wouldn't a proper T-shirt be less revealing? And why the hell do boys get
to wear jeans for the same occasion? They don’t exactly have to wear a saree
but a traditional sherwani dress code would have been fair. But that is exactly
what our society isn't; it just isn't fair to us women.
We are more comfortable with our boys being
out at odd times and with girls it is the “log kya kahenge?” that worries us
more than their safety (which is something that we should have ensured). And an
Indian women’s only job isn't the propagation of her species or getting
married. She has a life which comes filled with her ambitions and if having a
child or getting married is not a priority; it just isn't.
There is other important stuff to speak about
but that doesn't make this less important. We can’t really wait for every woman
to get educated before we fight for her right to make her own choices
especially when it is about her own body.
I don’t know if vogue made this video solely
for publicity or not but I do agree with what they said. Watch the video, just
once more and this time pay attention to other parts.
These are few things that struck a chord with
me:
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Trying to trap my soul is to believe
you can halt the expansion of the universe
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Your mind is caged, let it
free. My body is not, let it be.
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You are my choice; I am not
your privilege.
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My choices are like my finger
prints they make me unique.
For once sit back and think of what you liked
about the video.
Respect her and her choices cause there is a reason why she is
your better half.
Leave comments and we can have a sensible
debate.
Please be more civilized than that. And of
course my answer to that was as follows:
+Fun&Hacks never asked for ur permission; why don't
u invest ur energy in something productive like jumping of a bridge or getting
psychiatric treatment? :D
