BLUE AND PINK? FOR WHAT?

In today’s fast moving world, men and women should get an equal chance in everything . Why discriminate on the basis of pink and blue or girl or boy?  

I would like to quote  famous actress and activist Emma Watson “I think it is right that I am paid the same as my male counterparts, to make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decisions that will affect my life. I think it is right that socially, I am afforded the same respect as men.” Yes, she is right and every woman acquires this.

  People think that women or girls are weak in front of men. They think that women should sit at home, cook, clean and look after children. Girls and boys are not equally seen. Even kids are discriminated against. They are discriminated against on the basis of blue and pink. For example , we buy dolls or pink clothes for girls and mechanical kits or blue clothes for boys. This is not at all right. Also when boys cry they are told, “ Hush! Why are you acting like a girl?” , and this makes them think that only girls cry, not boys. Really? Why all this? Why are boys seen as strong and courageous and girls soft and weak? When a boy asks for a cooking set or when a girl asks for a car or anything that is seen as a boy’s toy they are refused by saying that it's not for boys or it’s not girly? Or when girls act bossy they are told that it is the boy who should be bossy. Few days ago in a newspaper I read a column about the same topic, Gender Inequality. It was talking about employment and promotion of men and women . It said  that when companies have a good profit they give promotions to men and not women, it said that companies thought if they would promote a woman at this time the company would go down under her leadership. But when it goes down women are made the leaders to put the blame on her for the company's loss. This system is entrenched. A myriad of men are working while only a small number of women are. Men burgeon but sadly, women do not.  

But today even boys are facing this problem of inequality. Men are made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what constitutes male success. Men don’t have the benefits of equality, either. Men could take up this mantle so that their daughters, sisters, and mothers can be free from prejudice, but also so that their sons have permission to be vulnerable and human too, reclaim those parts of themselves they abandoned, and in doing so, be a more true and complete version of themselves.