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For years feminists have fought for the identity of a woman by despising her role as a homemaker, a housewife and kicked the society below the belt to the extent of terrorizing it to gain concessions for women (mostly for bad women at the cost of devout, sincere women and men). And the conservative society went on giving as well since they were guilty of suppressing both men and women. However, since feminists fought for women, the women not only got their due rights, also got a lot of other privileges.
But men were left behind as they were given the lollipop of the phrase that "It's a Man's World" and hence there is no need for men's rights. For years there has been no change in the traditional role of the man as the Protector and the Provider. On the other hand, for women the changes have been dramatic and drastic. Not only has their role as a home maker been reduced to a dummy one, they also have the choice now, whether to be a homemaker or a career woman. And even if a woman becomes a career woman, the onus of financial responsibility still lies on the man only while the woman MAY contribute if she so feels otherwise she is free to spend for herself.
Hence we see that while men are not liberated from their traditional role, women are liberated. And thus this is an area where not only Gender Equality but identity regularization is also the call of the day. Men are losing their identity day by day. Earlier they were supposed to be the financial backbone of the family but with Women's Liberation and Role Liberalization, men are now supposed to be the financial backbone as well as homemakers and those who do not do so are termed chauvinists!
This identity crisis of men has led to many social problems, some of the foremost being high rate of divorces, formation of a fatherless society, more single women and single mothers, increased juvenile crime, skyrocketing suicides by married men since women are now not only more vocal of their assertions, their increased voice is taken as granted female behavior by the society in general and men in particular and those men who are victim of that female abuse have nowhere to go.
The harassment of men has gone to such an extent that an Identity-Redefinition for men is the call of the day which will be addressed in the next article. Keep watching this space.
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