Aren’t we expecting too much from our women?
All right, this is not cool at all. A survey by Nielsen revealed that Indian women are the most stressed out in the world — 87% of Indian women suffer from stress. This statistic alone caused me to stress out. Even in workaholic America, only 53 per cent women feel stressed.
What are we doing to our women?
I may be biased, but Indian women are the most beautiful in the world. As mothers, sisters, daughters, colleagues, wives and girlfriends, we love them. Can you imagine life without these ladies? It would be a universe full of messy, agressive and egomaniac males running the world, trying to outdo each other for no particular reason. There would be body odour, socks on the floor and nothing in the fridge to eat. The entertainment industry would die. Who wants to watch movies without an actress? Kids would be neglected and turn into drug addicts or psychopaths by age ten. Soon, all male world leaders would lose their tempers at the slightest provocations and bomb the guts out of each other’s countries. In short, without women and their sanity, the world would perish.
Yet, look at how we Indians, a nation of spiritual people, treat them. At an extreme, we abort girls before they are born, neglect their upbringing, torture them, molest them, sell them, rape them and kill them to protect our honour. Of course these criminal acts are performed by a tiny minority.
We judge our women, expect too much from them, do not give them space and suffocate their individuality. Imagine, if you did this to men, would not they be stressed out? At the end, I would say, ‘We should love women, respect them and never underestimate them’.
Student: Harsh Negi