As usual I overslept again today morning and was getting late for office. I just had enough time to either grab a sandwich or read the headlines of the newspaper kept right at the door. While I was still in two minds, these lines caught my attention "Cheers! Men have their day too" and after reading this line, the choice became obvious.
And this was the most weird article I have read since last so many days. Not because it says about celebrating Men's Day but because of the reasons it gives. The first reason it stated reminded me of Shylock's famous speech
"I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? "
In the above speech replace 'Jew' with 'Man' and 'Christian' with 'Women or Mother or a million other things'. Is there no better reason to celebrate Men's Day than this silly comparison. It seems a few men felt pity on being men and they said "Enough..!! Now we will also have a day dedictaed to us..".
I am not against celebrating Men's Day but atleast not for such reasons. The article further says "men are treated as ATMs and ‘sperm donors’ and are thus exploited." If men and women are given equal opportunities to learn and earn, if only it does not hurt the male ego when women are the bread earners of their family, they would no longer be treated as ATMs.
Men's day should be seen as a day to celebrate the integrity and importance of men in the society and not just by comparing other days' celebration or by finding some exploitation reasons.
I celebrate Men's Day because men give a meaning to the world and life and the world would not be the same without them. Happy Men's Day..!!!
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First of all i do not understand the purpose of celebrating such a day. What do we achieve? Be it Men's or Women's day..We do nothing except updating the sm's on our chat window (or writing a blog as you did)...If we need to show respect to the other gender, it shd be on all the days of the year and not just on a particular day.
Hmm we are celebrating it coz at least on this day we shud give some respect to women or men, its not possible to give respect all the days...I think we are doing the same for bday or even wedding anniversary...at the max we cut cake or go out for dinner...wat else..these days are there to take a break from our daily routines and do something which will relax our mind. If u go on questioning everyting then u wont even get time to listen to the answers.
very true!! its important to respect men or women as individuals having their own importance in the society and celebrate a day in their honour for that but not simply celebrate a day to compare them wid each other
Totally right . . . It shouldn't be celebrated for the stated reasons . . . . and moreover life is all about little things . . .if we see it as a whole then there isn't a point .We are born and then die .What's so great about it .But then it we consider small little things in life then we can see how lucky we were to have been born.
good one pallavi...u always bring out subte humour in everything u write....i wud just give my 2-bit on the same....having a women's day is important to celebrate their freedom...we still have incidences like the ones in blore and other places....as for men and all their problems:" come on dude...grow up. U all love doing things u r complaining of. U love spending money on ur gfs, wives so their goes ur claim of being ATM mchines and as for sperm-donors..shud i say sth here!!"
@Musings....thnx smriti...u hv added exactly what i wanted to but had missed due to some reasons.. :)
ACTUALLY I THINK ITS JUST THAT AFTER SOME TIME WE FORGET SO MANY THINGS AND THESE ARE JUST WAYS AND MEANS OF REMINDING OURSELVES OF SUCH THINGS... THATS IT.. NOTHING TO GET OFFENSIVE ABOOUT IT I THINK JUST THAT THE SPIRITS SHOPULD BE HIGH AND RIGHTFUL THINKING BUS...
TC.
Well well, on the lighter side, no wonder you got such good grades in school. Still remember those lines
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