I always keep rattling on about what a big feminist I am but have never bothered to look into the history of the movement, how it started and other theories associated with it. So, recently when I decided to read up on it, I discovered some pretty amazing things. There are different kinds of feminists; liberal, radical, Marxist, existentialist, lesbian etc. I realized that I belonged to the second category.
I was reading an article by Shobha De today. I have always liked her ideas but this time i didn't agree with most of them. She criticized feminists saying that they ignored things like the way women are molested, raped, killed even today and talked about bigger, unrealistic stuff. Well I have to say she is wrong. You need to be conscious of the goal your fighting towards but yes, start from scratch. Yet I loved another idea which she put into my head. She wrote the although men have never given up an inch of their domination, they have forgotten that we have an ace up our sleeve. We have power over our womb which we can exploit to our advantage. Your in laws pressurizing you for dowry, threaten to abort your pregnancy. You can actually take this as far as you want.
Today, on International Women's Day, if every women realizes this then the power will truly be ours.
