Women are of many kinds.
In our society, we glorify them, worship them, and claim we love them beyond anything else in the world. We also rape them, kick them out of our homes, make them slave for us, and think we are doing them a big favour by marrying them into our house. We wax eloquent about their beautiful bodies, and yet, something makes us think it’s our own, we think we can dictate how, where and when it’s seen. We claim proudly that our women reach for the stars, turn the world over, and so on, but also feel threatened if she dares speak her mind or be independent.
Women are of many kinds, indeed, for we have about a million ways to see them. Goddess/Whore. Strong-willed/weak-rabbit. Pillar of strength/biggest liability.
For every time she cries watching a movie, she will beat a man for good at playing Call of Duty. For as much as she cribs about walking through dirty streets, she will change a child’s diaper without a wink. For as demure as she looks, she might surprise you by leading you to do what she wants in bed. As much as she swears about her in-laws, she will quietly help them when needed.
Women are of many kinds, yes. Manipulative/push-over-able, fiercely independent/extremely dependent, kitten/tigress, rational/out-of-her-nuts.
We put up with them, we don’t know why. Perhaps because life is impossible without her. Perhaps because no achievement is worthy without her to approve of it. Perhaps because without driving her crazy, there’d be nothing fun to do. Perhaps without her, there would be no way to prove ‘superiority.’
Women are of many kinds. And this month in Spark, we’ll present you some beautiful ones. Read on, celebrate what she is, in the Spark March 2012 issue ‘Woman: Facets and Forms’.
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Editorial note by Vani Viswanathan
Cover page picture by Sreetama Ray.
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