ARE WE SERIOUS ABOUT FREEDOM...
Tickle The Sleeping Brain:
The real tug of war is basically based on rights and duties.
Who would know what and how things took place in history that has its ripples alive till date such that women seem to have to fight for basic rights for their cause and some misunderstood assumptions are born which tell men that somehow, their rights are being snatched away in the process of making way for women.
The basic idea of right to live in peace professed in almost all global social movements is lost in the milieu of ignorance and flawed disposition of pride and arrogance.
Something Very Basic:
All kinds of global social movements like Civil Rights, Peace movement, Feminism, Abortion Rights, Equality, Ecofeminism, Transgender Rights, Black Lives Matter and the list could go on, were once merely brought up so that specific sections of the society can free themselves of age-old shackles and thrive to breathe as free individuals without having to feel subjugated or otherwise compromised anymore.
However, the results are far from expectations. Mostly, some expectations are met when the fire is still on but as soon as some time goes by, the idea starts to flicker and people who are not directly hit, lose interest or do not feel the need to stay involved.
I guess, this is pretty much similar to what Julius Ceaser had us ponder over - public memory is fickle - forgetful audience.
Man-Made Flaws:
I have always been curious to know how such a wide scale and variety of disparity amongst people started and actually why!
To start with, there shouldn't have ever been an over-hyped fight over rights based on gender.
The contempt of disparity has trampled over one part of the balance and degraded the beauty of equity in diversity, the very language of Nature with which it speaks to us.
In doing so, we have also ignored and disowned the people of variations - Transgenders who also inhabit this lovely planet.
We have created pretentious flaws in the working of the Nature by disallowing Transgenders to be recognized as a form of gender other than the so called 'normal' male and female genders.
Who gave us the rights to to decide what is normal and acceptable?
STOP DISPARITY - AWAKEN HUMANITY
"Inequality makes people feel poor and act poor, even when they're not." - Keith Payne
You or I wouldn't still know if there is another kind in Universe or we could wait on Perseverance to catch us a glimpse, if at all, Aliens exist and are on their way to demand Alienism.
Meanwhile, I would like us to ponder on a very, very ailing system of our society.
Recognizing The Loop Holes:
The rise of free access to freedom of speech and freedom of action via the internet, social media, and other means of social interaction has created more malice between opposite gender and also among people who support a certain idea and who don't, rather than creating an atmosphere of livability.
Regardless, means of social interaction are not to be blamed because after all, behind the ideas are real people who are probably mistaken or are unable to gauge what causes an idea to tackle disparity, become a fight instead.
After much brooding and some more to happen still, I have come to this conclusion in personal space of my own thoughts, that the correct idea that can enlighten us toward making our world livable to every human born and yet to be born should most likely be termed or re-termed to profess an equilibrium in the world.
A comprehensive idea that establishes alleviation of all kinds of systemic inequalities - something which is not gender specific, not religion-specific, not caste-specific, not region- specific, not color-specific but human-specific, is much needed.
In doing so, we will hopefully be successful in eroding the atmosphere of unease that has settled in and has spun a web of prejudice and infinitesimal incorrect assumptions due to the way they sound - specific to only one gender's rights.
Revel In The Baby-Steps:
Not quite unknown, the foremost step begins behind the walls of our homes and schools. Not only making a learning process but also trying to walk the talk in the nascent and delicate growing years of kids by their guardians and teachers mark the preface of the whole idea.
It is high time to normalize differences and idiosyncrasies in a way that leaves no chance of mocking, teasing and trolling.
Great social reformers like Martin Luther, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Nelson Mandela, Margaret Sanger, Maggie Kuhn and the list could go on again, have given their lives and blood in trying to bring in sense and sensibility over pride and prejudice.
I guess not, we should stay stuck in primitive mindset.
It is imperative that the more we let a cause stay undelivered, the more we steer away from reforms to actually anchor deeper to make life meaningful for the next generations.
Let Us Declutter Stereotypes:
Who decides who is worthier of more rights and who does not qualify?
The people of 21st century ought to have better understanding of the world than the Neanderthals just like newer versions of computers are able to perform better than the first generation ones.
The more we question, 'what we lose by causing differences', the more it should enlighten us to an equation of 'NOTHING'.
When there is a known idea which commands anyone born on this Earth abides herein as fellow people, lives, eats, flourishes by hard work and integrity then why would there be a need of categorizing and then create innumerable 'Happy This and That Day'?
Shouldn't we uphold Humanity as a whole and eliminate the thought of discrimination in all its essence such that the word itself and its synonyms cease to exist in any dictionary?
WE TEACH DISPARITY AND HENCE, IT EXISTS!
This is why there is a need of a comprehensive ideology that can bridge this gap and eliminate the clashes between gender, caste, religion or whatsoever 'society' is plagued with.
Existence of laws that enable equilibrium by considering every soul born, should give rise to an amalgamation of Humanity.
It is the weakness of mind to hide behind a facade of biological or physical aspects of gender differences.
In reality, gender is like a horizon which is limitless. All types, together make the human race, each one very much required to keep the balance.
Some Food For Soul:
It is said, do not trouble an ailing soul, for, when it awakens it knows no fear:
Have you ever seen the fire fly,
When it flickers?
In slow gait, it travels eternity.
On fire itself, to spread the light
When its dark,
In all ages to come, it burns brightly.
What Is Your Take?:
At the end of all the hullabaloo, we ought to question ourselves -
Is there a law, a movement or a mutiny which can instead fight to bring equality of happiness and measure if we are all grounded on equal opportunity to happiness?
Breaking stereotypes in the right direction may prompt to bridge this gap !
ReplyDeletetotally agree!!
DeleteI like the way the issue has been addressed here! You amaze me every time you write :)
ReplyDelete🙂thanks!
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