Yes the Vogue video is many
things..the images are amazingly aesthetic….the voice of a superstar always
adds the glamour quotient….the words are poetic and powerful…it is truly a
Vogue special edition….
But does empowerment
really wear Prada and walk the ramp? Why are the choices and ‘metrics’ of
empowerment limited to simply having sex and wearing a certain kind of clothes?
The choices listed out as so ‘limited’ and ‘restrictive’ and miles away from
the infinite freedom referred to in the video.
Come on….it’s almost like
saying..I choose to brush my teeth or not…I choose to eat my food or not…I
choose to dye my hair or not…..these are not the choices that are denied nor do
they define you…
There has to be a balance
of sexes and where this balance is upset is when somebody has to hold the hand
of the downtrodden and uplift them to that platform of equilibrium..when a
choice of job and livelihood is denied because one wears a skirt….when a choice
of equal pay for equal work is denied despite the fact that the ‘he’ and the ‘she’
does the same amount of work….when a choice of marriage is restricted because a
‘she’ has to pay dowry to a ‘he’…when a choice to be born a girl is denied at
the time of birth…
These are the choices that
are stumbling blocks and societal failures that have to be discarded for that
real empowerment to strike and seep in…Its when every ‘she’ in our country can
exercise her basic rights of birth, life, livelihood, marriage and movement
that we can truly enjoy the infinite freedom that we all dream of!
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