Why I hate Feminism and Women Empowerment


Now that I have your attention, please read through the whole article and then enlighten me with your views, so that I can evolve, intellectually.
We have evolved as pioneers but regressed as humans. 
And it’s not a good thing, if you’re thinking.
Let me present my case.
We have become so consumed in the evolution that we have lost the basic traits that brought us so far. We consciously avoid feeling and understanding basic human emotions because they will not be in sync with the fast pacing and self centred life of ours.
And the saddest part is that we consider this as evolution and progress.
The Empowerment.
Our definitions have changes according to our comforts.
Whatever is comfortable makes sense. If there’s anything that requires effort, it’s not worth your cool life.
If it’s a relationship that requires effort, we avoid it because who wants to try and find something special when we can have transient pleasures.
If it’s a dream we want to pursue, we’d rather fall back to a safe career choice (like I did) because who wants to live a meaningful and happy life when we can have the money that we can swallow and die with nothing to take with us in hell or heaven.

And even sadder part of this pseudo empowerment is that the strongest individuals created by God, women have been on a futile quest to prove they are equal to men.
And, though it made sense but it baffled me how they started doing what men did to prove they were equal.  They should have put forth the argument of being better.
And to be honest, the whole issue is all about financial independence now.
Nothing more.
We are trying to abolish a practice which gave men a sense of superiority and power. 
And now, we want to take them back. Think about it, however unfortunate it was in the first place that men got those unfair powers; we want to take all of it back from them.
There will be protest and disagreements.
Napoleon said that power balances only after a mutiny.
We need to have that mutiny, more socially than economically. Of course, financial independence is a must but that should transcend into something more powerful and meaningful. 
More importantly, the mutiny has to be quieter one. One that’ll seep slowly through the culture of this and coming generations.
We need to shift from money to dignity and respect. We, as men, need to be taught that but unfortunately women as well.
Money never begets respect.
Increased number of divorces does not mean women empowerment, but a loss of trust and human relationships. 
A women or men should never be in an abusive relationship but the reason for fracturing relationships is not empowerment but a loss of faith in commitment and co-existence.
And this is what we are losing. 
Mutual trust and love.
Also, these days, the kind of disrespect I see towards housewives makes me question the whole concept of women empowerment. It seems that the empowered women think it as a degrading and worthless job which is suited only for uneducated ones.
A classmate of mine once told me her husband wants her to work and I was happy her husband was supportive of her career but then she told me why he wants that.
He wanted her to work because he felt if she stayed at home she’d be wasting time doing the household chores. He felt working at home did not add enough value to a life.
I was appalled and just couldn’t fathom what empowerment actually meant.
Is it exclusively for women who worked in corporate?
Or who felt empowerment meant sleeping outside themarriage?

I vehemently disagree and wonder if their mothers hadn’t nurtured their dreams where would those empowered women be.
By all means, go and work and make a career but respect that part of womanhood that enabled you to do so. 
Being a homemaker is the only thing that a man can never be. It is something that only women are adept at. It is not because I’m sexist but I know my limitations as a man.
We are totally incapable of running a home, of being in control of lives without expecting anything in return, something only a God can do. 
Being a manager or a CEO is something anybody can do, so we did it.
It only requires being selfish and vain.
If women feel that not working at home means empowerment then sadly, the quest of yours for equality will continue forever because you don’t let somebody concede your point unless you beat them and it might not happen if you keep fighting them on their turf which they have established for themselves after years of unfair competition.
Consider me a sexist, if you want but confrontation will not yield a result.
Indispensability will ensure co-existence.
I am not against the career oriented women, but a new discrimination that tries to make a homemaker not equal. 
And unfortunately the culprits this time are women themselves.

And finally a proposition:
Whatever money a man earns, half of it should be given to the woman if she’s not working outside.
That’s only fair and the least a man can do for all the hard work she does.
No questions asked.
That’s the least men can do.
Intentions do not count, actions do.

P.S: Take this with very little seriousness but if you want to know how women can shake up the established order without getting into the corporate, watch Spike Lee’s Chi-raq.





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