The first thing that comes to my mind hearing the word is human being. Man or woman both are human beings, then why is it that one is considered to be superior than the other? Why does one dominate the other? Why is it that men feel they are entitled to assert their dominance over their fellow human beings? I never really understood this practice, and I am sure I never will.

 

So where this is misogyny really originate from? Is it the prejudiced societal norms? Or something that is inculcated within oneself since their birth? Or the mere fact that even women are a part of this heinous practice?

Right from the childhood both men and women are expected to follow certain behaviours that distinguish them and perhaps that is the reason of their  distinguish thinking. Women are expected to cater the needs of men; to be caring, loving and sensitive. Men on the other hand, are expected to be strong, responsible and protect their ‘women’. Somewhere between all this, we have forgotten that both of them are classified as human being, both are different is a fact but another fact is that they are equal.

Yet somehow are mothers, daughters, girlfriends, friends and even grandmothers do not feel safe in the environment that we have created among us. They are looked upon, touched, commented on, eve-teased and raped, on a DAILY basis. It is disgusting and shameful that we people are not able to protect our own kind.
A woman with ambition is seen as desperate. A woman with needs is seen as pimp. A woman with opinion is seen as shameless. A woman is seen as an object, which can be molested and thrown. Rape culture is so normalised that we can joke about it. We are so ignorant that we do not realise the fellow human beings are assaulted daily in front of eyes and we do nothing about it.

The problem you ask? Is in the system for not being strict and hard. It is in the society for normalising such acts done my men in the name of masculinity and fun. It is the mothers who teach their daughters to be quiet and suffer in silence. It is the men who think of women as objects, are misogynists and disrespectful.