Its a bit strange, I wanted to write about this topic today and I already found it on my draft, and I guess it was something I wanted to blog about for sometime now. I had a very funny conversation (with serious sidenotes) with my friend today as we were about to head home. It was about iphone. So the conversation went:
Ednan: The iphone is like a seductive woman, its nice to touch, nice to feel, but once she âdeflowerâ, you loose interest.
Me: Well, I am growing to my N97. I canât really say its love at first sight but at least she is doing the dishes.
I have to admit that since I started this new job, Iâve become more sexist. Its not a chronical thing, I donât assume women are less capable than men, but rather as men we objectify women to fit a certain stereotype. Maybe its male chovanism. This is one way of looking at this. I have to say, I was never brought up in the villages of Pakistan, and from my upbringing I never really questioned the difference in role between a man and a woman, so its quite an interesting exercise to do so. There was one thing I noticed today as I was watching the election broadcast from BBC, the top anchors are all male, and I was just wondering whether it would be strange to see the top political analyst as a woman, whether we would trust her more or less? On a modern society work setting, women wants equality, same pay for doing the same job, same promotion opportunity, and I think they have every rights to demand this. However, with all these talks of equality I canât help but think that its this very mentality that is causing the society to become more and more dysfunctional. At the end of the day men and women are different, and they traditionally serve a different roles in all levels, and pardon me for bring God into this (being politically correct - after talking to Richard G today on G-chat about religion etc.), we have been created to perform a different role. The man earns money to take care of the family, and the woman provides a safe environment for the children to be brought up. Its the caring nature of women which attracts men to them and if they were the same, there would be no attraction/repulsion. Iâm not speaking against âwomen rightsâ in a liberal society sense, but a man ultimately feels a lot more manly if he was able to provide for the woman than the other way around. Sometimes I feel that women fail to see that point. Sometimes I can really understand why men like Japanese girls for their âobedienceâ. As my friend saidâŚA man stops being a man when a woman stops being a woman. Men are waiting later and later to marry because they need to feel they can have the ability to provide, and if their wives/girlfriends work 9-9 with a strong career mind its very hard for a man to approach such a woman. Perhaps I am still a very strong traditionalist at heart, this is of course a pure personal opnion and does not weigh much in the whole feminism argument. However, I am trying to understand this increase sexist thoughts, and trying to define some boundaries in which these thoughts could be developed and contained. Do let me know what you think.