Comments on: Feminism – a tag.

By: Shail

Shail — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:32:24 +0000

Exactly Hrishi! Men and women are different. But they are both humans and as such they have or should have equal rights.

By: Santulan

Santulan — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:56:06 +0000

An interesting happened today. THe person who i share my cubicle with is a woman, who also happens to be a afew years older than me. But that doens’t deter me from taking potshots at her which can rnage from faurly funny work humor to the rare some times rude ones. So she came up this morning and got a call which made her really happe. She tells me that I should wish as it’s the day.. I was confused.. her marraige anniversary just passed last week, and her birthday is long away.. so what?? i voiced the same and she tol me that it’s women’s day to which I promptly replied that “Women
’s day is on the 8th March!” She gave me a ominous look, which will continue to haunt me and i will not name her for the sake of my own mortal safety.. And then it dawned upon me. Sh*t. So some time after that when the coast was safer, I asked her a bit about the history behind the day.. she had done her home work and them paraphrased it as the day being about equality, oppurtunity and and another big word which i cannot remember right now…

It did made me think… It is true that us men still don’t treat women as equals.. yes men and women cannot be equals, but they should be equal in rights, equal in freedom, equal in acts, equal in the choices they can make… Shouldn’t they.. doesn’t that feel right.?

By: The Proximity Award | Shail's Nest

The Proximity Award | Shail's Nest — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:59:58 +0000

[...] Can you imagine this?? I have not yet accepted or acknowledged awards conferred on me last year!! I cannot believe this!! How remiss of me. My profuse apologies to you Deeps and IHM. I have been holidaying with a vengeance. Though blogs were never out of my mind while doing so and I kept popping in to read and also post a couple of them, I put off the award accepting post for a later date. So here I am finally, suitably chagrined, but humbled and terribly honored to receive the award, the same one, from both of you. By the way, IHM has given the award for my take on feminism. [...]

By: Salil

Salil — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 23:46:12 +0000

Shail,
Sorry for being late here.
I am all for equality and do my best to practice it under all situations. It is not equality of sexes alone, but also of race, religion, nationality, etc. And that is my problem with feminism – it is equality that is the ’cause’ and many feminists lose track of that.
Cheers,
Salil

I am with you there Salil!

By: Rashmi

Rashmi — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:48:51 +0000

Ok, its done.

Ok Rashmi will step in soon. Am away from home.

By: On Feminism « Experiments in Writing

On Feminism « Experiments in Writing — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:43:26 +0000

[...] My Friend Shail, has asked me to voice my opinion on Feminism. There isnt a lot written about Feminism in the [...]

By: arch

arch — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:11:31 +0000

i am hoping that line about your poetry was not aimed at me!! but for what its worth, i believe feminism is a non debate more and more when it comes to people like you and me. Its the rural ones who need the strength much more than we do. Things are so much more black and white in their world.

You are not alone Arch *shakes head sadly*You are not alone at all!!
BTW, I beg to differ. The strength is needed by women from ALL levels and not in any less degree for those from our background. Women in the same milieu as us have a freedom that is mostly an ‘eyewash’ one, a freedom allowed within certain limits. In contrast some of the poorer sections don’t much care for the ‘what will people think’ syndrome which is the bane of people like us, tying us down even more, in spite of our ‘education’! They have their problems, but we have ours too which should actually shock us as we are the ‘educated’ lot.

By: Rashmi

Rashmi — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 23:42:15 +0000

Will be writing one, but it will take some time. Its a weeklong Thanksgiving weekend so everyone is home, which means the queen needs to be in command , no time to sit back and think through. Will write up as soon as I am able to find my “Thinking Chair”.

Rashmi, shall wait!

By: Bubbly

Bubbly — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:22:07 +0000

Al though I know that I have missed quite a lot here! (I will read all the blogs and comment soon! I promise ) This caption ‘Feminism’ tempted me so much that I had to read this blog first (hehe how I wish my husband and dad read this blog!!! *sigh* )

Well… I feel shy to (always) say that you (my mom) speak my heart! But, I have no choice and I am forced to admit that my mom speaks my heart in a better way! I used to feel bad for not being able to write good blogs due to my poor vocabulary and lack of writing skills… but, that inferiority complex is diminishing as I read blogs like this coming from my mom. What if I don’t write?? Or why should I feel bad about my writing skills, when I have my mom doing it in a better way??

Keep up the spirit as always my mom…;)

Bubbly darling, what are mothers for?? They know what the daughters want to say and say it promptly!!

By: PRG

PRG — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:11:22 +0000

Shail, I have a brother and 2 sons,which means we didn’t have a girl child to practise inequality in our house for quite some time.It helped us to share household chores without having to differentiate it as a boy thing or girl thing.

Anyways your act was good and I think that you don’t even need the safety nets.

PRG, That’s nice to note. My husband also is from a family of only brothers and no sisters. Likewise, I have only sons. Ahh glad I could do that trapeze act well!!