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Monday, December 28, 2020

THE UPDATED VERSION-"Neither Men nor Women, Its humans"




Woah! It will be never updated, she screams. 

What happened again? Why are you yelling on that lifeless device, says her mom. 

Oh, Mumma, I am so done with this. This device and the democracy are so same, both of them promise you many things but none of them are able to complete it. 

And the one who is always confident about her work is telling this, WOW!! I guess this is my best day ever, her brother said with a sarcastic smirky smile. 


She ran away from there and went to the basement of her house. She cries and tries to hold her screams back. 

"I am creating an application for women who want to work hard and stand up for themselves and want to be independent and it always gets rejected because this is the sign of discrimination. Huh seriously????

No one understands what my motive is behind this application, everyone thinks this is such a bad idea and no one will be benefited from this."

An inner voice echoes, "This is the human mind dear, here everything happens according to what majority and the society thinks, especially the "SOCIETY". The minds are already set "men do the outside work and women do the household chores". But slowly the world is changing, the younger generation is trying hard to change the rules, but the older people are obstacles, they try to squeeze our ideas. You really want to change this, then stop listening to what people say about your ideas, gear up your strength and confidence, and put a step forward, the road will be automatically open to construct the walls of your choice."


The next few days were so hard for her, she used to stare at the screen of her laptop for hours, with no idea what was going on in her mind. 

The next morning, with a new shining light her face was so bright as if the sun and moon stayed past few days in her eyes. With the blazing fire in her eyes and a soft smile on her face, she came downstairs and sat down with the family. Everyone was shocked to see her like this. Without saying a word she left the house. 


On her way to college, she stopped in front of a girl who was slapping a person. Everyone gathered there. The girl said that this guy was whistling and trying to block my way so she had to slap him. She was inspired by that girl and decided to work on her app. 

She gathered all the information about rapes, physical abuse cases, and the illiteracy rate of women. She pasted the information on her wall and tried to link every point of why it is happening and why it should be stopped. 

She made two lists of the above information and began to work on that. 


She wrote an article about this which is as follows, 

Dear India, 

I should have written the world but before it's my country. This might be a letter, a request, an article, or the feelings every human has about this. You might be wondering what "this" means. 

I have always dreamt of the quality of equality between men and women. The quality I dreamt of was so heavy and pure but the quality I have received is not up to the mark.

Men these days want their daughters to be independent and updated but why is society calling those men irresponsible, if this what responsibility means, not letting your daughters compete with the men? Then you are wrong, it was never men and women until society became male dominant. Our society and norms showed that men are capable of all the physical work but do you know a housewife is more energetic than normal working men. Shocked? But this is the truth and you think women are only capable of doing household chores, how illiterate you are, though you have great degrees hanging on your wall and you are proud, I don't understand whether I should laugh or feel pity for you. Despite having the lessons of equality, rights, and freedom, we are still following the norm set some 1000 years back!! You don't follow the traffic rules set some 100 years back and want to follow the rules set 1000 years back. What an irony it is, when women used to stay indoors there was physical abuse and when they are set free outside they are the victims of rape crime. Wooaahhhh!!! Then where should we stay, in the sky???? Or under the ground?? Or maybe as ghosts inside the people whose minds are narrower than the blood vessels of the heart and inside the men who think women are their servants. Or I guess we should have a separate world like how we have separate rules for men and women. 

And now I am betting if this article goes viral, I will be getting rape threats and people who are jobless will be commenting about all the rights which women have are more than men. For those comments I am putting the answer first before you ask, though we have a separate female quota, did you ever thought whether we women got benefits or not? If a woman gets a seat or job because of female quota then people insult us saying we are here because of female sympathy and blah blah blah. And when we get a job or admission without a female quota then they say, hahaha, look now she is here to prove that she is better than us. Seriously?????

From where do you get such 2 rupee cheap thoughts? Or should I say penniless thoughts?

We women were so happy when we got freedom and rights to study and stand equal to men, but the norms and the thinking of society is always an obstacle between our dreams and success. If we do we are called names and if we not then also we are called several names. Then where should we go to prove ourselves, the dreams and success we want to achieve here always go in vain, but still the women are number one in everything, whether it is household work or office work or sports or anything. 

When women and men will stand equally with every support and love, then it will neither be men nor Women but it will always be the world of "HUMANS"

Yours truly 

Citizen of India. 


And she posted this article on every social media platform, within hours she got comments saying great work, keep it up, proud of you. She was so happy. Obviously when there is a positive response then sure there will be negative also but she is enough capable to tackle this and move forward. So she created a blog website and decided to speak about women empowerment, male dominance, all men are not the same, and other information. 

Her blog states that "for me women and men are equal and together we are good omens for the society. We are here to bring change and establish peace ".

And at the end, she said " the women can go forward with the mutual support of men and women and the men can help the women with the mutual understanding of men and women"

And at last, she can proudly say that her idea is updated, "The updated she, The update he and The updated version of humans"


By
Alefiya Kotawala 
Instagram handle @alefiyaa._ 
Another Instagram handle @poetry.heals_

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