Education amuses me. Yes you heard it right it is amusing me
more and more with every passing day of my life. I clearly remember my primary
classes when very often the topic for writing an article on examination seat
was “importance of education”. Not just I but most of my friends too started
the article with the line saying “education plays a very important role in our
lives”. It is now that I know is clearly does so, however I cannot say so for
my classmates who wrote the same line on examination sheet. Oh no wait if you
are thinking that it is important because I am now in that list of literate
people of this country and will hopefully get a job, then you are wrong. It has
done much more. For example: it has taught me how to be a girl, rather a good
one; how saying yes to what others want from me and in that process just ignore
the voice of my own just like a hot guy would ignore a fat girl standing right in
front of him; and the best of all how should I feel stupid for addressing the
elephant in the room (jise hum “ye toh ese he hota hai” bol ke, bar bar vahi
cheez dhorate hai).
Let me very bluntly say what I have finally thought of as a
possible solution to the gender inequality around us. It has become so imbibed in
our lives that we happen to now take it as the right way of living. Yes I know
it that all this mess is because how we have being thinking about gender roles
in our society. Ok so here is a joke- women have different compartment in metro
and Indian railway, their seats are reserved in parliament, and also we have
only girl’s school and colleges, we have different que at every counter. All these
steps have been taken in order to make women feel safe and equal and all of
that bullshit. My only question is that how is she supposed to survive in the
world which is obviously not only female, by being in schools and colleges made
for women. The metro ride she takes for few hours in women’s coach is in no way
helping her to escape the creepy eyes on her once she is out of the coach. So it
is like travel in metro women’s coach and then find yourself a women’s college
or school. Similarly to the old notions of first living under the eyes of your
father and then you husband. Sometimes, however your brother could also take
care of you in their absence.
I have seen parents getting their daughters admitted in
girls institute in order to punish her. I mean wow… who came up with this idea.
It is like being in an institute for girls only, your eyes will turn blind to
the males on this planet. Grow up people, this is the only possible thing I have
to say to you. I am dead sure that you who is reading it, might think how I am
jumping from one thought to another so quickly in this article. Even I am
feeling so. It is just that we all want to
be good. And the notions of being good as we are taught in our education system
are clashing badly with what we aspire to be, what makes us happy and in which
we are comfortable. Let us just be uncomfortable for a bit. So that it is no
more like that soon.
