Soliloquy

If the emancipation of women were to take up space in many of the respectable columns hosted by decent people across the world, it would deserve much more than what it perhaps gets. What was the purpose for which it was intended and what was the purpose that it ended up serving? No freedom can be without its limitations, and the handbrakes that they offer often overshadow the boundless expanse of green seen over the hill just as the sun sets.

If men believed that to emancipate and set women free from the rigmarole of duties inside the kitchen was to serve their own verily undignified purposes, they were pleasantly (and sometimes not so pleasantly) surprised by the furore they had to deal with. As things turned out, not everything was to be done for men to serve their own purpose or to seek an end to the means they had employed; what they sometimes ignored was the objective created by the heat of the moment that every battle distinguishes itself from – the public good.

What women did achieve was the establishment of creative and ingenious thinking for themselves, which, in many cases, led to the institution of their own agency from which they could exercise the franchise of desire – or perhaps even a large cup of coffee. Men may have never seen – and some still do not – the big step that one has to take to stand up for oneself and take up space which was once accorded as sacrificial for your ilk, and this, more than anything else, is what the liberation of women has achieved.

Now that the premise has been set up, what we must question of ourselves is the levels to which we have gone to make such a freedom possible. While the concept of independence in itself insures that there cannot be a second party possessing the power to guarantee it, this has not been the case with women. Some may even call it a fiduciary duty settled upon the dusty shoulders of chivalrous men to be mindful of the background and upbringing in which they encounter the modern breed of women, inured to taking a stand for themselves.

What such a freedom means is the autonomy of the mind being liberated from the chains that parochial society had set upon the sisterhood for no fault of their own and restricted them from expressing the fruits of their creative intellects. This liberty will not award the beneficiaries with the licence to misrepresent their case – such as might be – in order to gain the rewards of a victory not earned, but rather the setting free – or true emancipation – of the mind, which men have tried for generations to harness, and failed.

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