WHY I SUPPORT THE WOMEN'S BILL
May 15 2008 | Views 708 |
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Reservation is a bad word in the intelligent man's dictionary. It means that his intellectual incapacity is accepted as a genetic factor so that allowance of concessional treatment is made at the cost of more "intelligent" people.
Can gender based reservation be counted as some kind of debility, of the mental kind? Nowhere in the world are women given reservation in politics. The urban intelligensia dubs this phenomenon as wooing the public in favour of the ruling party that passes the bill, turning the track of women's vote bank and so on. There are women who oppose these bills as they have been used to voicing opinions against the reservation policy and now they cannot go back on a "policy matter" by saying, let us allow women's bill and the 33.3% reservation. So the pseudo feminist says- All are equal,see we have shown you time and again that we are no less than men. Look at Mayawati, Jayalalitha, Sonia Gandi, Indira Gandhi. If they can come up, why on earth can't we?Down with the women's bill. It means nothing to us!!
Okay,if that is what you say, let us go ahead and take stock of the background of these so called successful women politicians. How many have come sheerly out of their inclination, unaided by any male support? It was either a boyfriend, a husband,a father or some well wishers already in their husband's party, who had roped in these females and later, of course, they are on their own. On the other hand,if lesser mortals like you and me become independent candidates, with no body to lobby for us, what would happen? Think for a moment of the physical attacks, rape, acid throwing, deaths, beatings or any kind of attack by the "opposing" party candidates or even the other candidates of "our" party? After all this, if we survive, well and good, we can rule (or get overruled).
Just consider the plight of an average woman interested in politics and deeply desirous of serving the nation. What are her chances of even being able to join a party, given the fact that she has family-a husband, children and in laws to serve and take care? When they are not in the political field, what are her chances of support at home? How long can discouragements keep up her spirit and what are the other possible immediate benefits that woman gets besides break ups, cut ups, separation, divorce, suspicions of conjugal infedility?Wouldn' it take toll on the emotional health of the woman, whose sole desire is to do something? Who will provide her with the financial backing, when the husband himself is likely to object to her ambitions? Taking all this into consideration,a capable and intelligent woman with a willingness to contribute her mite towards nation building, would step back hesitantly. She would consider herself a lesser mortal and hand over the baton to women who are able to hook a boyfriend from among the possibly successful "partymen". After his death of course, she would become his protege.
If this condition has to change for the better and the homebird should be able to perch on the treetops of political power, what better resolutions can be taken other than giving a nod to the women's bill?
Can gender based reservation be counted as some kind of debility, of the mental kind? Nowhere in the world are women given reservation in politics. The urban intelligensia dubs this phenomenon as wooing the public in favour of the ruling party that passes the bill, turning the track of women's vote bank and so on. There are women who oppose these bills as they have been used to voicing opinions against the reservation policy and now they cannot go back on a "policy matter" by saying, let us allow women's bill and the 33.3% reservation. So the pseudo feminist says- All are equal,see we have shown you time and again that we are no less than men. Look at Mayawati, Jayalalitha, Sonia Gandi, Indira Gandhi. If they can come up, why on earth can't we?Down with the women's bill. It means nothing to us!!
Okay,if that is what you say, let us go ahead and take stock of the background of these so called successful women politicians. How many have come sheerly out of their inclination, unaided by any male support? It was either a boyfriend, a husband,a father or some well wishers already in their husband's party, who had roped in these females and later, of course, they are on their own. On the other hand,if lesser mortals like you and me become independent candidates, with no body to lobby for us, what would happen? Think for a moment of the physical attacks, rape, acid throwing, deaths, beatings or any kind of attack by the "opposing" party candidates or even the other candidates of "our" party? After all this, if we survive, well and good, we can rule (or get overruled).
Just consider the plight of an average woman interested in politics and deeply desirous of serving the nation. What are her chances of even being able to join a party, given the fact that she has family-a husband, children and in laws to serve and take care? When they are not in the political field, what are her chances of support at home? How long can discouragements keep up her spirit and what are the other possible immediate benefits that woman gets besides break ups, cut ups, separation, divorce, suspicions of conjugal infedility?Wouldn' it take toll on the emotional health of the woman, whose sole desire is to do something? Who will provide her with the financial backing, when the husband himself is likely to object to her ambitions? Taking all this into consideration,a capable and intelligent woman with a willingness to contribute her mite towards nation building, would step back hesitantly. She would consider herself a lesser mortal and hand over the baton to women who are able to hook a boyfriend from among the possibly successful "partymen". After his death of course, she would become his protege.
If this condition has to change for the better and the homebird should be able to perch on the treetops of political power, what better resolutions can be taken other than giving a nod to the women's bill?
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