Some time ago, this beautiful film, The Battle of the Sexes (2017), which portrays events in the world of tennis in the early 1970s. During this time, the women's liberation movement was gaining ground. The Patriarchate was being challenged and the face and nature of society slowly turned.
In such a case, Bobby Riggs, a retired tennis player and gambler, supported the decision of tennis officials to pay less for women than men. He openly declared that women were weaker than men and that their game was not half what men were. Besides, many people did not go to see them. The body of popular philosophy at that time, male chauvinism, even went so far as to describe himself as a "male chauvinist". The film accurately highlights the gender conflict. Conflicts of opposing ideologies: male chauvinism, women's liberation, and culture conflict: modernity versus traditionalism.
Regge challenged the first woman, Margaret Kurt, and easily defeated her in consecutive sets. By doing so, he was believed to have enjoyed male superiority forever and proved that women were actually "less" than men. If a woman in her lifetime can not overcome a retired athlete, no woman will be able to claim her confession, pay or anything on equal terms with men. Riggs, however, grew overconfident and challenged the leading women's tennis status, Billie Jean King. Billy agreed to meet him with great hesitation. The game was announced dramatically, dubbed "Gender Battle". Billy went to defeat Bobby and then sent a loud and loud message to the world: women were not less than men.
Although the notorious tennis match was dubbed "the battle of the sexes", the real battle has probably been raging since the fall of the man from the original Grace. When God created man and woman, He made them perfect for one another (Genesis 1: 26-28). He has never commanded a man to dominate a woman. But through sin and sin, man not only controlled the world but also controlled women.
But over the past 60 years, thanks to movements such as women's emancipation, issues such as gender equality, women's respect, salaries, etc. have become public awareness and have increasingly grown up as a topic for discussion and debate. Progress has been terribly slow, but it has happened. The final case of the Weinstein scandal serves only to underscore my point of view of rapid progress.
In India - a land with diverse cultural and religious traditions, each with its own way of honoring or subjugating women - the situation is not very pleasant. In fact, it is very shocking. The issue of Nirbhaya among countless others is still alive in our minds. Every day there is a report on violence against women. What could be the cause of all this madness?
To answer this question, I think it is necessary to ask and answer another question: "When does the child realize that he is superior to the female?" It may seem strange but necessary. The child is not even able to a certain age to distinguish between males and females. Even when they do, they are only able to identify differences and similarities. The child has no idea of the head or the bottom. When and how did he begin to realize that he was superior? It is clear that socialization and upbringing play a major role. By observing the way his or her family, community, or society is born and raised in their jobs, he begins to form ideas, personality patterns, and design behavior.
The child is likely to treat women in ways that he sees growing up. So, I think treating a woman like your grandmother, your mother, your aunt, your sister, your relative or your partner will solve half the problems. But there is a huge hurdle that arises: What about those who do not treat their grandmother, their mother, their aunt, their sister, their relatives or their partner well? If a person is unable to communicate with women who share his blood in a healthy manner, it is unlikely that other women will be treated well.
Indian male psalm is damaged. Thanks to the unlimited media desire to "sell", women have become subjects in almost every area of life, and this often offensive image of women is spread around commercials, billboards and the like. With a lot of negativity around him, he needs a firm effort to avoid isolation from the woman and restore the basic relationship. Detoxification of the mind is the need of the hour, and strict and binding laws will do much to help the process. In addition to breaking stereotypes through education and educating people about the media, stronger steps must be taken. Actresses need to come out forcefully and end up intercepting themselves, mostly from their bodies, through the media. I think the actresses will send a strong message if they all decide that they will not be the "distressed girl" and the songs of material and physical appetizers at all.
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