Man and Woman: Two Halves of One Equation
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Pawan Sarda | Sep 17, 2009
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. –Timothy Leary.
Mr/Mrs God created the universe in opposites. Presence and absence. So we have day and night. So what is absent in the day is present in the night and vice versa. The day offers you lots of energy and enterprise. This is what helps man make a good living. On the other hand, the night offers calmness and creativity. So this duality of day-night results is a complete, holistic life, that is, time to make a living and time to process the joy of living. Now who on the planet can tell me which is more important or less necessary and why?
Let us understand this in the light of the times and factors that contributed to building this pattern of behaviour among humans. When in the primitive shelters like caves, man because of his physical strength and ability had to fight it out with the weather and wild animals, while the woman was the one who had to be protected and to be supplied the food.
Also every time she had to carry their child for long nine months (without even the most basic medical facilities, she would become entirely dependent on her man). This was the norm even when she reared the child and he ventured out to do all that was needed for his family’s survival. He could not bear, feed and breed the child because of his anatomy and she could not run, hunt and fight the brutal wild animals because of her specialized anatomy. He brought the food and she prepared some semblance of a meal. Till this point, none of them thought of the other as being superior or more important. There was no comparison, just an appreciation for the mutually supportive roles of the man and the woman.
This was before man became a social animal. As soon as he became socialized and tribal living ended, things began to change as the roles of males and females were questioned by each other. The spectre of comparison began to rear its head with the thought that between the ‘day’ (man) and ‘night’ (woman), man was better and more important, hence he became dominant and oppressive. And woman felt she was less important so she felt dominated and oppressed.
In the times that we are living in, there’s no need for useless comparisons. How can you compare day and night? Can day exist without night and night without the day? One cannot exist without the other. Day and night, like man and woman, are nothing but two different software programmes that run on the same hardware and operating system. So you can compare them for example, only if you can compare Microsoft Office and Microsoft Media Player. We are at fault when we say, “Woman can do everything that man can do and more”. Why waste yourself in doing what man can already do for you? Why and how is earning a meal better than cooking a meal?
My message to all the differently talented, skilled, programmed but restless female half of the human race is: It’s about time you stop comparing yourself to and liberating yourself from men. Enjoy your power as a woman and your role as a nurturer as you complement and balance the human equation to make it whole.
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nice article and many of point r really true..
i find this article very subjective. agreed, women are supposed to be nurturers because only they are naturally built to bear a child. but, this does not put a limit to their abilities, desires and needs. if women want to work and earn, having doing their “role” equally well, theres no way stopping them. theres absolutely no restriction. women and men are above all human beings, and nobody really can state what women or in that case men should be doing alone.
A true practical approach towards life.. A
gem of an article.. You deserve kudos..
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