War of Sexes!!!

Why are most of us obsessed with the need to prove that women are better than men or vice versa? This morning, I was reading the newspaper where the State SSC topper was quoted saying she’s happy to have proved girls are more intelligent or something to that effect. Now I don’t know why she needed to make a statement like that. What has she proved? Ok great you have topped and stuff. We are all happy for you and you have the right to bask in the glory.

Or maybe she was influenced by the media or probably she was tactically coerced into making that statement. Or maybe she never said that but some journalist decided to attribute the expected quote to her!

Doesn’t matter! What I am trying to say is that this is just an instance. There are so many polls and articles and studies, which try to prove this stupid point. The joke is that a point proved to be so by some bledy study is sooner or later proved otherwise by another one. A particular sex is favored depending on who conducts the study, and his or her prejudices I guess.

I mean in this day and age, why do we need to do this! What are we trying to prove? There are serious issues that need to be dealt with; there are plenty of women in rural India and even in our great Metros being abused and treated worse than cattle. Plenty of women given no opportunities to get out of the rut.

Recently, there was this case in Mumbai where a neighbor beat up the folks of two girls for allowing them to go to college.

This is what we need to fight and oppose and change. And not saying women are better cos some gal scored a percentage point more than the boys or boys are better cos of whatever reason.

But I don’t see any hope, seriously! People read such shit and quote it for their cafeteria and local train conversations. And for the journo writing this crap it’s safer to take the tried and tested path rather than open up new vistas. Most of them don’t have it in them anyways, I guess.