Enough of, “Oh she is a girl and she has done it” already!

“Oh she has done it”, “Its fabulous, how a woman can accomplish such things”, “Its amazing how she can lead a department, inspite of being a woman” – Enough of these already. Unfortunately, I have been getting to read/hear a lot of these of late and I swear to god, it is absolutely freaking me off. Well before I have all the dimwitted pro-feminists (I’m one, but witted) take a dig at me and all those “Read the article title, and screw the author” guys yell out big things, I would like to clarify that this ain’t anything intending to hurt the woman/[girl] sentiment.

Women are not exactly as sensitive (physically or mentally) like the new age thinkers claim that they are. They are far more potent and extremely talented as much as any other species on this darn planet is. So if you don’t call a man picking his kid from school everyday awesome, don’t call a woman who does the same thing as awesome. The point is we are just adding up to the already existing intricacies of the society. If a person, be it a man or woman does great things, appreciate ‘em irrespective of the gender, show ‘em the same respect. I understand that some detractors might be hell bent upon not agreeing to this line of argument, citing and attributing the whole ‘managing the family’ to a woman and therefore tend to magnify every little thing they do.

But, what they don’t get is, as we keep doing this, the feeling that women are a weaker race can never be brought down and in a society where you want equality for women in everything, the practice ain’t helping the cause. I am not sure, how many new age women actually like it when they are bracketed as awesome for little things they do. For all we must know, they are humans and stop magnifying everything they do. We are not empowering them by doing that, we are only making them feel much more insecure. The feeling that, “Inspite of being a woman, I have done this” is not good, not good at all. Imagine someday if a lady who is leading a product department or leading a country for all we care, makes a mistake and then thinks to herself, “Well, I am a woman so I can afford to” – That would be the most depressing justification ever. And that’s just one hypothetical instance.

To conclude – Give them space to grow. We are never going to get anywhere as long as we treat them as some alien creatures. Respect people, not race, gender or any darn thing for that matter. Period.

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