I am amused by the frequency with which the label of feminist is attached to me. Now I am kind of getting used to it. But I still feel embarrassed by the fact that I hardly know what feminism actually means ...and sometimes even my friends who pass such judgments hardly understand what I am trying to talk about.
May be it is because they sniff elements of rebel and anger in me as a woman ...but all I have ever tried is to talk reason with them. For me it is just being conscious and aware, aware of the power imbalance in social relations… and I am not ashamed of this awareness even if the price that I pay is wearing the careless tag of being a feminist.
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Thats sometimes the basis of all conversation.....We dont know for which we are talking about and we still keep on fighting for the beaselss cause....
Dont take this as personal comment. Its is a generic statement.
Smiles :)
Labels are always problematic and so is unquestioned loyalty to any faith/ideology. I have always felt that the "official" Indian feminist movement (led by the likes of brinda karat) have failed to study gender issues with the seriousness required. In particular, they have treated the gender movement in seclusion and resisted any attempt to place in the larger picture of social movements of the marginalized. Critics of their "religious zeal" have been called male chauvinists or traditionalists. I told you labels are problematic :)
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