Shut up amid the cackle.

Today's woman and all that jazz!

Ok, so I am writing about a much-written-about topic. Its been a while now, and everyone I know (and don't know) is going to town about the today's woman. I admit to being flattered at times by the epithet, though it is generic most of the time and almost never particularly addressed to me, but it is a funny term to use.

I mean, if I am today's woman, are the women from the previous generation yesterday's women? And are the women who will be my daughters be tomorrow's women? Granddaughters; day-after-tomorrow's women? God, the questions will never cease. Ok,don't glare at me. I know the term doesn't suggest that, and nor is it used in that sense. But still, I do not understand the big deal that the world is making about female achievements across.

It is derogatory to see people eulogise the ordinary things women do. It basically means that women are doing better than is expected of them, and no one ever thought they could do all this. To top it all, we had feminists burning bras and yelling themselves hoarse over equality slogans. The very demand of being made equal signifies the acceptance of being inferior. Thank heavens the era of bra burning is gone. I would have never agreed to burn my Lovables. They do wonders to my figure, they are very expensive, and besides, I do not need to be made equal. I already am. (Maybe now, feminists can eat their bras instead).

Women did not invent the need for grooming themselves in 2001. So why is there such an ado about it now? For instance, I do not look good because men around me want me to look good. It is my personal choice. And so has it been for many women since long back. I know of women who groomed themselves and are still far more elegant compared to their 2002 sisters. It is an essentially feminine trait. So why has it suddenly become "feminist" and "radical" to look good for oneself alone? And even if you do want to look good for the men around you, what is so "door mat-ish" about it? Anyway, I will attack that topic later some time.

Women did not wake up in the 21st century and suddenly turn into multitaskers.I know of women who have been working in the 1920s and 1930s, Women really did not learn to balance a job and a family in 1999. But it is a miraculous thing now, that the puny, delicate, not-so-smart and illogical female is managing to do it. These adjectives are precisely the reason why the "new woman" of today is being heralded at every street corner. I am really sorry but I refuse to bask in the glow of such insulting praise. The woman is not a newly evolved species of animal or something that she has to be scrutinised constantly under a media microscope. The life of an average woman might have become more difficult now, but mind you, she is not complaining. She is equipped with the right tools to deal with it efficiently, and no, she does not need constant monitoring of her evolution. She evolved along with the common man. Which was some crores of years ago.

Labels: Today's Life

posted by Anupama. @ 3:31 pm