From the beginning of time it was decided that women should not be happy. All kinds of traditions and customs, rules and laws were drafted to ensure that they remain unhappy.
So that is how it all started. For yet to be born girls there is female foeticide, just born girls - infanticide, for the tweens and teens dump all the household chores on them in hope that would kill them. If the girl survives all this and becomes woman, nature makes sure she suffers atleast for 5 days a month and it could be made even more worse by isolating her. Next the ultimate weapon shall be used - marry her off so that her in-laws can have fun on boghi by burning her alive. However some may be used as slaves and son producing machines (To find out what happens if she conceives a girl, start reading this paragraph again.)
If it so happens that the woman lives through all this she shall be pushed into the prye along with her dead husband.
Now the makers of these traditions (henceforth will be referred to as T makers) figured that this doesn't affect the girl's daily life. Also some of these practises may not survive the test of time. They had to come up with something to solve the above mentioned problems. Something to constantly remind the women that they are lower than the lowest. Eureka! The saree was invented.
Saree was especially designed in such a way that the wearer is uncomfortable in every possible way.
- It is too stuffy during summer and too cold during the winter.
- It takes years of practise to master the art of tying it properly
- It takes centuries of practice to survive the whole day without constant fear of it getting lose.
- One cannot run in an emergency wearing that thing.
- It is not suitable for the one thing women were created in the first place i.e. cooking and other household chores.
I could keep on listing the disadvantages. Facts can make any story boring. So moving on..
The T makers haven't forgotten that women are highly intellectual beings.They knew that women will overcome this saree problem and come up their lives for they have been doing so for centuries now. They had to figure out a way to keep the women under their feet forever.
So the girls are brainwashed into believing that one becomes a true woman only when she wears a saree (and only when she gets married and attains motherhood by giving birth to a son and does all the household chores without complaining for the rest of her miserable existence).
If any woman refuses to wear a saree then it means she doesn't respect the country's culture and that she is not a Patriotic woman.
Some parents maybe lenient towards their girl by letting her wear other comfortable clothes. This problem is easily solved when the girl is married away. After punishing the girl's parents for giving birth to a daughter by asking a hefty dowry, the In laws are quick to put a condition that the girl should always wear a saree (and should produce a fair baby boy within 10months of the wedding).
Most women don't feel uncomfortable in a saree as they're used wearing forever. In fact many find it very fashionable and love wearing it. If someone wants to "insult" a man they do so by asking him to wear a saree and sit at home. That would teach these women that sarees are for losers.
Fairy tales have happy endings. So does this saree tale.
The challenge for the T makers doesn't end here. For more and more women are neglecting their duty (ie household chores, motherhood etc) and are becoming independent. Also these educated women have come up with comfortable alternatives to sarees. This outraged the T makers. How dare women come out of their houses? How dare they wear whatever they want to? They're asking to be raped by doing so. Now why give them something that they're asking for? Oh well, what the heck, let the women get what they want at least once in their lifetime.
So that is how it all started. For yet to be born girls there is female foeticide, just born girls - infanticide, for the tweens and teens dump all the household chores on them in hope that would kill them. If the girl survives all this and becomes woman, nature makes sure she suffers atleast for 5 days a month and it could be made even more worse by isolating her. Next the ultimate weapon shall be used - marry her off so that her in-laws can have fun on boghi by burning her alive. However some may be used as slaves and son producing machines (To find out what happens if she conceives a girl, start reading this paragraph again.)
If it so happens that the woman lives through all this she shall be pushed into the prye along with her dead husband.
Now the makers of these traditions (henceforth will be referred to as T makers) figured that this doesn't affect the girl's daily life. Also some of these practises may not survive the test of time. They had to come up with something to solve the above mentioned problems. Something to constantly remind the women that they are lower than the lowest. Eureka! The saree was invented.
Saree was especially designed in such a way that the wearer is uncomfortable in every possible way.
- It is too stuffy during summer and too cold during the winter.
- It takes years of practise to master the art of tying it properly
- It takes centuries of practice to survive the whole day without constant fear of it getting lose.
- One cannot run in an emergency wearing that thing.
- It is not suitable for the one thing women were created in the first place i.e. cooking and other household chores.
I could keep on listing the disadvantages. Facts can make any story boring. So moving on..
The T makers haven't forgotten that women are highly intellectual beings.They knew that women will overcome this saree problem and come up their lives for they have been doing so for centuries now. They had to figure out a way to keep the women under their feet forever.
So the girls are brainwashed into believing that one becomes a true woman only when she wears a saree (and only when she gets married and attains motherhood by giving birth to a son and does all the household chores without complaining for the rest of her miserable existence).
If any woman refuses to wear a saree then it means she doesn't respect the country's culture and that she is not a Patriotic woman.
Some parents maybe lenient towards their girl by letting her wear other comfortable clothes. This problem is easily solved when the girl is married away. After punishing the girl's parents for giving birth to a daughter by asking a hefty dowry, the In laws are quick to put a condition that the girl should always wear a saree (and should produce a fair baby boy within 10months of the wedding).
Most women don't feel uncomfortable in a saree as they're used wearing forever. In fact many find it very fashionable and love wearing it. If someone wants to "insult" a man they do so by asking him to wear a saree and sit at home. That would teach these women that sarees are for losers.
Fairy tales have happy endings. So does this saree tale.
The challenge for the T makers doesn't end here. For more and more women are neglecting their duty (ie household chores, motherhood etc) and are becoming independent. Also these educated women have come up with comfortable alternatives to sarees. This outraged the T makers. How dare women come out of their houses? How dare they wear whatever they want to? They're asking to be raped by doing so. Now why give them something that they're asking for? Oh well, what the heck, let the women get what they want at least once in their lifetime.
