Gender

In an Allahabad University fb group there was a discussion on how women themselves treat other women -- the daughters/daughters-in-laws..... I am posting here my one comment on that:

This needs long comment. Gender is not an attribute of biology but an ideology that affects the perpetrator and the victim alike. With the rising tide of feminist assertion and scholarship, this ideological hegemony is cracking, has not yet been broken and buried. The changes as yet are evolutionary and quantitative that are bound to mature into revolutionary, qualitative changes with the end of patriarchy that is eventually inevitable. Law of history is anything that exists is destined to perish. In my last 10-15 years of teaching experience, girls, in general are performing better than boys, not only in the examinations, but otherwise also and many of them seriously questioning and challenging the social stereotypes, which had been taken as axioms. The reason of this is that the memories of the centuries of discrimination and deprivation are still fresh. Once they have gained the opportunities, they are desperate to prove themselves and create an independent work identity. They are keen to accept and throw challenges. Habits die hard, the emancipation from social values internalized since childhood is time taking and requires courage and insight. But the surging stream of feminist assertion and scholarship cant be stopped by the straws of verbal-physical sexual assaults. Let us catalyze the process of women's and hence human emancipation.

06.10.2013