Listen Up !

Okay…. So I’ve always wanted to address this issue but never really got the time or the right frame of mind to put it all down. It started with a joke about a women’s stupidity that my friend forwarded me. Yeah, it was a funny PJ, nothing to be serious about right. Yeah, but disturbingly, there was a pattern I noticed, sex->women, less intellectual->women, talk more + think less->women, guided by emotions-> women, shopping->women, the dependent lot->women; and it was disturbing because not all women are what they are tagged to be. There are tags we don’t want; I want you to notice me as an individual, and not be seen by the paradigm glasses you wear. I am frustrated by what I see -> insecure girls who poster themselves the way others want them to be, men whose brains are controlled by the lower half of their body, media that seems to go crazy if some woman went naked, posters, banners, rape, trafficking -> I want to scream out, shout-> STOP, PAUSE, PLEASE JUST STOP…. Listen to what I have to say … STOP destroying the image of women, it’s none of your business, to play with others’ lives, and if you do portray something, do know that the audience isn’t educated enough or sensitive enough to realize the borderline between art and porn. And filmmakers, please have men who dance at pub naked when u show it in the movies, (then you’ll know the kind of criticism you face)… because it is uncomfortable to sit in a movie hall with hundreds of eyes glued to the big screen girl moving around, and Prakash Jha, women are not meant to be somebody’s wives for the only purpose of producing kids. And I feel frustrated to know that those saas-bahu, women-playing-mean-tricks, man-of-the-house serials still exist!! Ding-dong, we live in the 21st century!! Next time, I don’t want to hear from you, she is so n so’s wife…. Excuse me, who is she? Yeah I know she happens to be his wife… but who is she? And parents, (though most of us have been lucky enough) but there still exist parents for whom, daughter is a property, that’s sold at a bargain-able or at times fixed price, moved from house to house, just another item on the list, STOP! Humans are humans are humans and not objects. Neither are they objects of sex. And women -> please be independent, work just like another man. There is no difference, we are homo-sapiens. Men are not ATMs; you owe yourself a living and nobody else! Women! If you can’t work hard, then don’t work cheap, in your hands lie the image of women that exist across the globe. Men! Stop! Stop staring at that girl; she’s not what you saw on HT-CITY, and goddamitt she’s an individual, a homo-sapien just like you, stop your sick mind, stop your sick jokes, stop laughing, it isn’t funny, you are distorting the true picture. Don’t stay in compliance saying,”That’s truth, it can’t be changed, and it’s how it has always been!!!”… SHUT UP! Your compliance makes things worse. Change is what we can do, change our attitude, speak up against things that disturb you, aware the ones around you… It’s high time, I deserve equal respect, I deserve my freedom, and I deserve to be observed as any other individual -> untagged.

Women! Men! Media! Friends! STOP AND INTROSPECT PLEASE… you are disturbing my sleep.