JUST AN EQUAL

                    NOT A GODDESS, NOT A SLAVE AND DEFINITELY NOT A COMMODITY

                                                   JUST AN EQUAL

I Think it is only in India that women are worshipped, we are given the status of a goddess and are compared to Sita, Savitri  or  anasuya as a great pativratha. All this happens only in pure Indian context.

      But there are some stereotypes present around the world. Why is a woman always designated as a sister, mother, wife or a daughter? And then again contradicting to these stereotypes women are exploited by physical, verbal and sexual abuse. Why is the thought that a woman needs to be under the wings of her father, husband  and a son still prevailing?

     Though at present most women are educated or economically independent we still depend on men for protection at least in the matter of physical protection. Why don’t we teach our daughters how to protect themselves? Why do we still teach them to adjust, to be considerate, to be accommodating? And importantly to be quite?  And specially  in the Indian context on hand women are worshiped and on the other denigrated and its only women  who are compared to goddesses not men the comparing is just a boundary drawn around us to curb our freedom, or it seems so otherwise why don’t we see men expected to be Ram ? or chastity stressed upon men as well? And why are men not seen as father, husband or son? They are bound by relation too aren't they?

             Purely only in Indian context, only woman is a symbol of prosperity goddess of food a monolith    of calm and forgiveness and their beauty is expected to be that of heavenly maidens  after all these years we are still stuck with same notions. We don’t want to be worshiped or to be placed as a goddess but we are still struggling to be an equal.

    “I DON’T WANT TO BE A GODDESS NEITHER A SLAVE , I DON’T WANT TO BE ABOVE OR BELOW I AM A DAUGHTER, WIFE, SISTER AND A MOTHER BUT ABOVE ALL I AM A WOMEN!”