Women Empowerment Reality

I decided not to wait until 8-March to write this. 8-December is also fine as women are valuable and are to be cherished anyday and everyday. 

It has been a long ride in history on women empowerment and feminism. Talks about gender equality is a major topic of discussion and some works might portray women in right frame. But if you do a reality check there has been very less significant work done that changes the mindset of the larger population. This can be well noticed in movies. Women are shown as a victim who need to be rescued by man or powerless, damsel in distress or doing most stupidest thing that requires a man to correct her. If you think these movies are from 1900's  period go and watch recent movies like Bigil, Doctor, Enemy, Annaatthe, Indoo ki jawani, Sooryavanshi, Spiderman etc. The list of movies is longer than latest iPhone release que. And you will not disagree if watched these. In such movies, not limited to those named; women are portrayed just as objects and commercial bimbos (my apologies for the word usage). If the hero is so powerful why in first place have a heroine? 

Reason behind this anomaly is that 99% of movies are hero centric movies directed by men. Mass power of hero and upholding his image is the main purpose of the movie. So rest are collateral damage. Sad but that is the pathetic reality.

Let men under the pretext of equality and empowerment not downgrade and degrade women. The underlying truth is that they are trying to uplift their image. Media is mainstream and has huge impact on the human perspectives and how social understanding evolves. With such responsibility, for better understanding of the the other sex, they should stop casting women as glamour dolls and show admiration for inner beauty of women. 

The truth about gender equality is that there can never be perfect equality. Nature and our creator have designed human production line with differences for various reasons. So, women do not need to seek permission from men but require men: 

• Who can understand the differences, 
• Respect them for who they are, and 
• Support them grow in their endeavors. 

That is what would be real gender equality and achieving growth (developing to provide something to others :-  growth defined in nature terms). These start from home, let us respect the women in our life and cherish them anyday and everyday. Seeing this the future generation from which some who might be directors and story writers will have a different movie experience for their audience.

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