In a FB group of Alumni of Allahabad University, one member wrote a post complaining about majority of discussions being pro-women and not pro-men. He probably meant Woman's Question and not pro-men by which perhaps he meant Man's Question. There is nothing like Man's Question as the man is not discriminated against or subjugated and dominated but is perpetrator.
In1987. I presented a paper, "Women's Question in Communal Ideologies: A Study into the Ideologies of RSS and Jamat-e-Islami" in an international seminar at India International Centre New Delhi on 'Religion, Law and Gender' that coincidentally got published in an internationally read Internation journal. (Owing to the lack of intellectual self-belief that is, inadvertently but systematically instilled into us since our birth through our socialization, very reluctantly I had sent to it), Most of the communications I recieved, were adresses "Dear Ms Mishra", First sentence of my freply was, "Incidently, I am a man......" What I mean to say if talking about equality band rationality becomes pro-woman, how can one help? When ever one talks against Hindu communalism one is branded as pro-Muslim and vice-versa, When ever I raise the issue of atrocities on Adivasis people start asking me account of Naxal "brutality". The woman's issue that simply means sexual discrimination and subjugation of women and their emancipation as full fledged individuals with rights to autonomy, freedom, equality and freedom of choice in all the spheres of life including dress and sexual orientation. This not being pro-woman but being " a rational human being with empathy (not sympathy) for a fellow human being of different sex, including the Third Sex. What you say is being pro-woman, is, in fact, being pro-humanity.
In1987. I presented a paper, "Women's Question in Communal Ideologies: A Study into the Ideologies of RSS and Jamat-e-Islami" in an international seminar at India International Centre New Delhi on 'Religion, Law and Gender' that coincidentally got published in an internationally read Internation journal. (Owing to the lack of intellectual self-belief that is, inadvertently but systematically instilled into us since our birth through our socialization, very reluctantly I had sent to it), Most of the communications I recieved, were adresses "Dear Ms Mishra", First sentence of my freply was, "Incidently, I am a man......" What I mean to say if talking about equality band rationality becomes pro-woman, how can one help? When ever one talks against Hindu communalism one is branded as pro-Muslim and vice-versa, When ever I raise the issue of atrocities on Adivasis people start asking me account of Naxal "brutality". The woman's issue that simply means sexual discrimination and subjugation of women and their emancipation as full fledged individuals with rights to autonomy, freedom, equality and freedom of choice in all the spheres of life including dress and sexual orientation. This not being pro-woman but being " a rational human being with empathy (not sympathy) for a fellow human being of different sex, including the Third Sex. What you say is being pro-woman, is, in fact, being pro-humanity.
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