International Men's Day

 Let’s talk about a day that needs no introduction, ‘Women’s Day’ celebrated on the 8th of March every year. To know how it is celebrated in India, google ‘Women’s day celebration in India’, you’ll get tons of news, photos of people celebrating the day, but if you do the same for ‘Men’s day’ then you’ll hardly see any pictures of people celebrating the International men’s day which is on 19th November.
 Media covers many events on Women’s day, every year Maharashtra Times organizes a bike rally on women’s day, but the same media will ignore men’s day. They will treat it just like an ordinary day. Isn’t it gender discrimination? I know it’s good to arrange events for society, but remember that society comprises women and men. Society should treat both of them equally.
 Men don’t want any kind of attention; They just want respect from society and they are working hard to ‘Earn it’. When anyone says, ‘respect women’. I’ve one question: How can we respect someone by their gender? We should respect the person, not the gender. We should respect the person who worked hard for any cause irrespective of gender. Don’t blame a gender for the deeds of one person. A woman can make fun of a man, abuse him, still the people will say that she has a strong character, if the same is done by a man then the same people will say that he’s disrespecting her, he doesn’t know how to behave with a woman. If you are saying men are serial killers (Chandrakant Jha), then you don’t know about Seema Gavit and Renuka Shinde who kidnapped and killed many children. Are people saying all women are the same, all are serial killers? ‘A big NO’ we are not saying anything like that, then why blame a whole gender by the act by a few? You can’t credit/blame the whole community by the deeds of a few, just like you can’t say the exam was tough by solving the first question only.
 Why do people say to a crying baby boy ‘Don’t cry, you are a man’? Is it illegal for a man to cry? No! Then why don’t we feel normal when we see men crying in public? A person may cry while expressing his feelings to someone, what’s wrong with that? Every man is not strong just like every woman is not weak. Think over it.
 “Blue for boys, Pink for girls.
 Emotions for women, Strength for men.
 These are a few stereotypes that shouldn’t exist.” (Source: www.jaagore.com <http://www.jaagore.com>)
 We are living in the 21st-century women and men are standing on the same stair on the staircase of equality, success, fame. I know in few areas women are behind men, but soon or later they will cover the difference and will show that world that ‘We are not behind.’
 
 Written By a person with unbiased and not so normal views.

 

 

:Aradhya

 19/11/20