Today's Time's LIFE's main article is titled "THE MEAN GIRLS". It reads, "Men go for someone smarter, sassier and sexier. They want a partner who lives by her rules". It brought a smile on my face. Is it really so? Has the 21st century brought along with it such an air that women are given the 100% liberty, freedom (of speech and actions).
I agree that womanhood has seen amazing evolvement in the past years and today's modern woman's wants are much bolder and at times unacceptable to the society. But what's wrong with that? The need to be competitive enough with the men is not a wrong thought. Then at the end of the day, why are we asked to be more family oriented?
Well, being a family person is not at all an demanding job. But why do men fail to realise that today's modern woman can handle both, her career as well as her family life. I think the fact that a man has to make equal compromises rather than just being the bread and butter earner of the family dumb strucks him.
The article goes on to read that today's girls storm with an attitude of 'to-hell-with-what-the world-thinks' but at the end of the day, women tend to ponder over the slightest event that could have made their day memorable or uneventful. Have we (women) been taken away so much by this modern world that we've forgotten to look back at our roots? Has the modern thought, globalisation, the competitive world, a male dominated world taken such a toil over our ethics?
A woman who plays a key role in building a family, entriscing a society and entwining the base for socialisation...can we really change our norms to suit our ways of living? Or rather, if we do so, the question is how accepting the society is of our being intimidating and independent nature?
Our want of home, marriage, the perfect guy, career, lifestyle...how much of it are we allowed to decide today? If we are competent enough to be better than men in many fields, explore the world, know our needs, fulfill them, have an independent thought and rule our life,our way...then why should we demure?
Our role as a mother, daughter, sister, wife, friend will never intrude our ways of life (we know it) so, why should we surrender and compromise in maximum spheres of life? We have the power to be the Powerful Pratibha Patil, the gracious Madhubala, The sensous Priyanka Chopra, the Bold Kiran Bedi and many more facets to one simple word "WOMAN" and one simple concept of being "WHAT WE OUGHT TO BE" :)
