By: Jai Bobal and Pravartika Gandhi
It is an agreeable fact that women all around the globe have been discriminated in the past and there is a need to empower them in the current ‘modern’ millennium. But women empowerment and equality sometimes might be misinterpreted as depowering men, looking down at them and uplifting women over men, which is fallacious as it clashes with the true ideology of feminism. Hence the concern of how even men now might be feeling discriminated against rises.
It is not very uncommon nowadays to find slogans and ads taunting men by calling them heartless, eve teasers, cheaters, jerks, etc. This contradicts with the very motive of feminist campaigns to fight for equality, not superiority. The belief that only the man is expected to be the money maker of a house without any help, carry all the financial load of the house burdens men with the job and social stress of living up to the society’s expectations, which is not justified.
A man who fails to live up to the world’s perception of ‘masculinity’ is abhorred by the society, just like a woman not living up to the ‘feminine’ ideals. “If a man punches a woman, he’s a loser. If a woman punches a man, he’s a loser.” It is not only women, but men too who suffer from gender stereotypes, and would be benefitted from feminism. However, this social cruelty cannot be ended till the gender equality movements are going wrong, till men and women don’t unite to fight against this evil.
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