What it is to be a Woman!

Yashaswi Nellithaya
4 min readFeb 27, 2021

I’m sure half the men would skip even before reading it, but please would you give it a try!

I mean, how simple is that to say You are a woman and life is so easy for you; a life where you don’t have to worry about the house finances, don’t have to worry when to buy what, don’t have to worry what investments to make, and of course don’t ever have to worry about the future, because all of this Men ought to take care and on the contrary women just make food, take care of the house, make babies and look after them!

I’m sorry to prove you wrong, that’s absolutely isn’t the reality.

Women then, now and always wanted to do all that Men do. Want to look after the house both externally and internally. She wants to share the part of house rent, what to buy food and stuff, want to have her own credit cards, want to invest wisely, and yes of course want to make babies plus buy everything from her own money. Women always wanted this!

I’m definitely not saying working and having money of her own is all that she dreams off, what she really wants is individuality and the sense of independence that she knows she is well off alone without a man backing her up always. She wants to make decisions equally as men and have fun equally as him.

Sorry! please don’t argue that woman is meant to do all these that she has been doing because she is physically weak and she can’t do everything that a man can do! Yes, I’m well aware that her physique is not as strong as men but it’s also true that many women out there already proved the fact that they can make their bodies as strong as men. And yes, women’s bodies are structured to give birth to babies, but it’s also true that just because she can give birth doesn’t mean that she HAVE to! Can you bet on the fact that women are 1000% stronger mentally compared to men? Isn’t there so many examples when time comes it is always the woman who handles the situation with her mindset?

I’m sure this post alerts many men and it brings up the rage that women of this era have learned the stupidity of “Feminist” and stuff and they have gone mad, yes I’m sure women of this era believe in feminism more but it is also the fact that Feminist isn’t confined to women and sad fact that men aren’t given his least effort to understand it!

All women of this era asking with their voice pitched high and the women of the older era silently sobbing to convey that we neither want to be superior to men nor to crush them, but want to be EQUAL, we want to enjoy all those rights men have equally, we also want to roam at 12 AM just like how men do freely. We aren’t asking for men to make babies and bring them up all alone, we are asking to share work with us, to do everything together. Just because we are let to wear jeans ( the criticism for this is never-ending ) and go to the pub, it’s been considered that women have given what we want, but truly that isn’t what we want it all!

Though women earn equally as men these days yet it’s not considered that she is equal to men, she does not get to enjoy the freedom and access like men do. What makes men so different irrespective of women having achieved all these, had to be considered different but not equal?

Fortunately, I’m born in a family where I was nowhere considered different than my brother, I was always given the chance to do what I like, be it going on a trip, choosing a career, or even choosing my own partner for life. But I’m sure many of the women out there aren’t privileged as I’m and I truly feel so sad for them. Fact, where their own parent’s don’t understand what their daughter wants, is misery but nothing else.

To sum up, do you know what it is to be a woman. It’s as simple as wanting to do things that Men do, surely not above or below but just as men do. Wanting her family and friends to be proud of what she has achieved in life. Wanting to understand how to drive a car like men and how to invest wisely yet never hear a comment saying you are a “women and you don’t do these things well”. Wanting to not to hear “Tu ise nahi kar sakte hai kyunki tu Aurat hai “. Wanting to share the responsibility of taking care of the house and child, but not to do it all alone. Wanting to go on solo trips without being feared of what her partner/family would say and what difficulties she would face on the journey. Wanting just to be FREE, wanting just to be EQUAL. We can’t imagine the world without WOMEN and of course, we can’t imagine it without MEN too, that’s why we are made and that’s what we gotta embrace, Being equally important in this unequal world!

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Yashaswi Nellithaya

Software Engineer, Books Addict, Strong believer of Kindness , Compassion and Peace .Smile is my only real identity!