This is one of my blog articles which I'd like to share... please do leave ur thoughts on the same...
Disclaimer: No offence to the male of the Human Species 😳😉
The other day I heard a guy accusing another of Bitching....😕
I laughed thinking of such a feminine connotation being used on a man😆... And then it struck... All negative connotations happen to be feminine...
A little into the history of this word... The word in itself is not derogatory... It just refers to the female of a species we call- Man's Best Friend. But the light in which this word is used these days makes it extremely derogatory. And in the context I am talking about, it refers to a gossip monger carrying tales and starting fights.... Huh!!!Gossiping, Starting Fights, Carrying Tales, Ill temper etc.. are generally considered exclusively Feminine traits...
I just remembered an incident that occured while chatting on an online forum...The game basically was tht one member asks a googly question and the others try to find a witty answer to it... One of the questions asked was- "Name a thing invented by a woman"..... And the answers?? They ranged from "Gossips" to "Quarrels" to things I would not like to mention.... I called them MCP's and stomped off in a fit of rage...
This reminds me of Jug Suraiya's article in TOI..... We hear of Hurricanes called "Katrina" and "Wilma".After all Hurricans are supposed to be "ill tempered" like Women! Have we ever heard of Hurricane Dave or Jack? Even if exceptions do exist.. They are far and few..
As William Shakespeare had once said, a "Spinster" is a woman who can be equated to ill temper, ugliness,unpleasantness; a hag who drives men away from her.She is a Spinster not out of choice but because she has none. Her male counterpart, a "Bachelor" on the other hand is a Smart Guy who is the object of envy of other men. Huh!! An attractive guy or a ladykiller is called a "Stud" and an attractive girl who'd probably enjoy the male attention?? More often than not she will be labelled a "Chic" or worse...A "Whore."🤢
Had it not been for JK Rowling... "Witch" would have remained a dirty word. "Wizards" or "Warlocks" have remained as respectable as they always were.😕
Even ancient Literature blames Women for the miseries of mankind...
"The Trojan War took place... Not because of a perverted mind... But because of Helen's beauty"...
"The Mahabharat War surely took place because of Draupadi... had it not been her... The Pandavas and Kauravas would have lived in peace."...
"Allauddin Khilji would not have attacked... had Padmini not been so beautiful"...
Men have set up negative connotations for the *fairer sex* inspite that they, themselves, are the cause of much of this negativity.