We revere our ‘mothers’, worship
Goddesses Lakshmi, Saraswati,
Parvati, Durga, Kali, claim they
represent wealth, intelligence,
strength and power and then offer
prayers for a boy child, or worse still,
want to abort a girl child!
Absolutely hypocritical and
shocking! The female to male ratio
has just dipped to 914 women to a
1000 men. We are a country that has
had a woman prime minister, a
woman president, we have
witnessed Kalpana Chawla going
into space... and closer to home,
seen women working shoulder to
shoulder with men, excelling in their
fields and being on par as earning
members. Why then, this ridiculous
bias against a girl child being born?
If you give them equal opportunity
and education, they are just a
capable of earning, being strong, self
sufficient, resilient and the bread
winners for the family. Every time I
read about rape, sexual abuse and
molestation it angers me because
men are perpetrators of such crimes,
not women. But gender disparity
ratios anger me doubly because it
denotes a woman ’s consent in
aiding the death of girls.
When you read about deranged,
sexually frustrated men raping and
molesting girls that are just two
years old to women in their 70 ’s it’s
because given dwindling numbers,
that many of these men are unable
to find their own women. If you
want to keep your mothers, wives
and children in a safer world... it lies
with you to keep our society gender
balanced, and to give birth to more
girls.
