I am just popping in to share my thoughts on this. I felt the need to comment after seeing some misinformed posts that made me roll my eyes.
While I do agree with most of what is being said here about women being the main and ultimate victims of suffering, violence and social injustice in most, if not all, societies of the world, one needs to be careful with generalizations or simplifications of the form "both men and women are equally suffering in the society" or "woman are always dominated by men". Of course, this applies to everyone on both sides. Not every man is bad and not every woman is good. It is all about the mindset and what social, cultural, economic and educational conditions you are exposed to earlier in life. However, being a male myself, these kind of statistics and regressive views on women and their role in society do not strike my brain like a tsunami, to say the least. There is little doubt that women are generally more subject to injustice and ill-treatment than men and have to suffer most. This has been the case since ages. While both men and women can be victims of violence, we hear about rapes, killings and other forms of heinous assaults on women, at the hands of men, all the time. Many more women than men face not only violence, but also the serious problems of mental abuse, dowry, feticide, infanticide, and gender discrimination in the form of distribution of education, power and work, etc.
This site pretty much sums up what problems are faced by women in today's modern society of India. For those who are interested, please have a look.
Please note that I am talking about the real life situation, not how social issues are depicted and dealt with in a fictional show like HD, which is meant mainly to entertain a broad audience and not much else, and therefore should not be taken seriously into account when discussing such loaded topics as gender and women empowerment. The reality is far less entertaining, we all very well know that. At the end of the day, I believe women have to fight chauvinism of any kind. 👍🏼 After all, we are not living in the Stone Age anymore, where women had to obey a man's words or face death.
Just my two cents. 😉
Edited by -Sandy- - 12 years ago