Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Reserved for Ladies

On account of this outburst, I could well be termed a certified MCP but here goes. It seems to me that the ladies (notice how I have not used the term - women) are still a confused lot about what route to take to liberation. I will take an example to illustrate my point.
In the public transport I use, I find young and perfectly able-bodied woman glaring at even some senior citizens who have occupied the "ladies only" seats, with a silent (sometimes) admonishing and imploration for them to get up and offer them this sacred space reserved for them by the law. More often than not, these are educated, working women, who consider this reservation as their divine prerogative. (It is another matter that once enconsed in their seats, they would not bother to think about another female fellow-traveller in distress). And on the other hand, we find these young women attempting to "break the glass ceiling" at work, looking for equal opportunity employers, attempting to become more "men" than men.
I agree that above are extremely generalized situations but then, I hope you get the drift of what I am trying to say. Only that you can not have your cake and eat it too.

1 comment:

silbil said...

i am from delhi ...teh rape capital of india... and i used to travel in DTC bus and often faced the dilemma of whether to ask a man whatever his age maybe to get up or not...
i am sure you are not an MCP..coz at least you think...
i think most of the time the women want the seats not only coz they want to enjoy the luxury of a seat...but mainly its to get away from the lecherous (whatever the spelling is) men...and also sure they desrve the seats more because the middle class women who take the buses...99.9% of the time have to go back home and work too....so don't you think they neeed something that eases their tiredness...
just my view...feel free to rubbish it

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