By Oxfam India:
Can you continue to work after having children? When you get married, are you expected to take your spouse’s surname? When 8 different individuals, male and female, are asked such questions about their daily life, what responses can one expect?
Oxfam India, an organization that aims to create a just, equal and sustainable society by empowering the underprivileged, has come out with a video that proves a point. Men, on many occasions, are unaware that they are privileged in many ways. Till date, women have to leave their jobs after getting married, they are unable to wear whatever they wish to without facing harassment- the list goes on. Over time, traditions and customs have made us adapt to certain ‘normative’ ideas, and rarely do we question this normativity, where a woman is inferior to a man, and has to adapt to a man’s society. We never ask each other such fundamental questions, which define the framework of society, but we simply conform to it. It’s time to ask whether we all enjoy the same freedoms. It is time to take women and their issues #outofspotlight.
B
It is women who are privileged, not men. Women have the luxury of choosing whether they want to work or not, not men. It is men who face taunts at being jobless, and have to spend an entire life earning for women. Women are under no such obligation. Joblessness is the prime reason for male suicides, which is why the suicide rate of men is twice that of women.
G.L.
You cry inequlity after reservations and special qoutas eveywhere for women – buses, metros, colleges, businesses, parliament. You cry inequality after treating husband like an ATM, bodyguard, coolie, dildo. You cry inequality after taking his life savings in alimony, child support, half of his property.
If there is any inequality, it is against men, not women.
The Joker
I cannot wear the clothes of my choice. My wife dictates what I wear.
Batman
Since when did it become safe for men at night? I risk being killed for my wallet at night. Men being shot, stabbed and robbed at night is common.
B
We need equality but it is men who must work long, stressful hours, have the duty to propose, buy expensive gifts, jewellery, rings, pay at dates, buy dinner, spend at restaurants, pay for their shopping, perfumes, cosmetics, spa, beauty saloons, take them on holiday, then put up with their whining and complaints and nags and taunts.
Jigsaw
Don’t you feminists get tired of trolling?
Batman
Why do news channels announce the deaths of ‘women’ and children? Why do men have to leave their seats for women? When The Titanic was sinking, why were women allowed to leave first? Why didn’t they refuse and ask for equality then? Why are lifeboats reserved for women? Why do women receive lighter sentences for the same crimes committed by men? Why are women allowed to walk free even after framing innocent men in fake cases of rape, dowry, and DV?
The Game
Man exposing in public – pervert
Woman exposing in public – liberated
Spider-Man
Men should collectively decide not to give women their time or money, otherwise they will continue treating us men like dogs.
Bandh ke gale mein patta ban gaya kutta ….
Geetika Jha
Nice to read
Luv u all people