What to read after Rulebook For Women By Patriarchy?

The poem in this book mocks society for its double standards; it emphasizes the restrictions, advice, suggestions for women, and daily stereotypes faced by females in our society. There were certain gender roles that were adopted in earlier centuries to distribute work and pressure equally among men and women. But over time the work has changed, scenarios and situations have improved, but those gender roles refuse to get replaced by new ones.

On the one hand, change is coming. Men and women have been given equal rights in the constitution for life, work, religion, and speech. On the other hand, there are certain gender biases on the ground level which discriminate against women on the basis of sex and gender and impact their lives in a negative way by snatching their desires, dreams, rights, and freedom.

Gender stereotypes do not only harm women, but men, too. No feminist should say that a man doesn't suffer. They too are victims of sexual and mental harassment, domestic violence, acid attacks, fake rape, and dowry cases.

A high number of men have changed their mindset and acknowledged the role of a woman in society and a large percentage is still in progress but the problem lies with big fragments of society, who still hold women responsible for the horrific crimes against them, who still believe in caging a woman, and who control a woman's basic rights of clothes, speech, and freedom.

The problems faced by women in society do not arise only from men oppressing women, it is also encouraged by the female members of society who accept the patriarchy and pass it on to generations following orthodox rules and values, who support their fathers, husbands, and sons to treat women as subordinates, who don't raise their voice for their daughters-when they are discriminated and look down upon.

My message to my fellow female friends: Just saying "Smash the patriarchy" on social media and wearing T-shirts with "Women are better than men" will get us nowhere. Females are neither above men nor below men; they are equals.

There are certain biological differences between males and females, but there should not be any discrimination based on sex over intelligence, authority, ability, skills, education, rights, freedom of life, speech, travel, work, and profession. If one person does a crime against another person, he/she should be punished and there is no explanation that can justify the crime, not even her gender.

Favoritism towards females or males, both are wrong; we should strive to provide justice to the victim and punishment to the culprit despite gender; just because she is a woman - she won't get away with it! We do not need to favor any gender.

A society is a big community that includes both females and males, but biases against males or females have created different communities within a big community which is coming in the way of the development of the nation. What's wrong is wrong, right and wrong shouldn't depend on which gender is doing the deed.

Smoking and drinking are harmful to everybody's health, not just women. The opinion of one woman doesn't speak for the overall woman population. What we need to stop altogether is -generalization. A horrific stupidity done by a man doesn't make all the men in the world Idiots. Generalizing snatches the individuality of every person breathing on earth.