Suman & Shravan AT#2 - Ek Duje Ke Vaaste...Ego Rakhi Hai - Page 73

Originally posted by: asmaanixx

<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">This is how I differentiate between the two:</font>

<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Self-respect: Standing up for yourself when you know you did no wrong.</font>

<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Example: Look at all the Indian Television Female Leads who are constantly accused of doing something wrong, are taunted, publicly humiliated, physically, emotionally and psychologically abused. But with one simple apology from the husband, they come running back as if nothing happened. These type of women don't have a notion of self-respect.</font>

<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Self-respect will be standing up for your integrity, your dignity and demanding for something more than an apology for all the humiliation they had to go through. It is about protecting one's reputation.</font>

<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Ego: Considering yourself too highly to the point that others' value andcapabilitiesare diminished.</font>

<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Example: Indian Television Male Leads who are portrayed as being the bosses and have to be right in every single situation. Where they make life a living hell for their female leads because these ladies dared to speak up against the wrongs they were doing.</font>

<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">Ego kicks in when you refuse to acknowledge that you have been wrong and try to skirt around asking for an apology. It is the notion of constantly being the dominant one and at the top. It occurs where someone cannot even fathom being underneath someone else in a ranking or ahierarchicalstructure.</font>

<font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif">It's a struggle that women are facing as if they are found to stand up for themselves, then they are labeled as being egotistical. In reality, people are horrified with the fact that women are acting in defense for themselves. The idea that a woman can be dominant and better than a man at something abhors them and absolutely terrifies men.</font>