The changing ‘womanhood’

Nupoor Raj
Athena Talks
Published in
3 min readFeb 9, 2018

Preserve ‘woman’ to prevent nature imbalance- need of the time!

Photo by h heyerlein on Unsplash

Woman- pure, clean, chaste, untainted, wholesome, motherly are all just words which were used to describe the holy sanctity of a woman. She has always been revered, for centuries down the timeline of human race. She has always been respected for carrying forward generations.

Could you, while reading the above lines, bring to your mind the picture of a relevant ‘woman’? Well, if you could, I must say you are lucky!

And if you couldn’t- I will tell you why.

This breed of woman is reducing rapidly. There’s very few of those sensitive, caring motherly figure found nowadays. In this entire rush for ‘equality’, ‘gender consciousness’, ‘breaking stereotypes’ and what not…somewhere the ‘motherly’ woman is losing her identity!

There’s more of rodomontade in our activities instead of purposeful living.

Girls all around are boasting quotations on feminism, womanpower, matriarchy and blah blah stuff.

It makes me ponder- are they eligible enough to comment on this issue? Have they played their cards well? Aren’t they just enjoying the free lunch?

Of course, the patriarchal society badly needs to be mended, but that shouldn’t be at the cost of losing something so authentic and rooted in us ‘women’!

Of course the women should be entrepreneurs and officers.

Of course they should dine and dance.

Of course they should go on blind dates and pool clubs!

But, at the end of the day, while at home, they should be none other than a ‘woman’!

It’s tasking to be a woman! And I am proud of being given this task!

Am proud of the fact that God trusted me to be able to take this role! I no longer show off my claims for gender equality or girl power! I like to ‘work’ on ground level. I do my part to uplift women and make them self reliant- even though it’s on a tiny scale!

It is the ‘woman’ who keeps the world from going blind!

It’s ‘us’ who keeps lives intact.

It’s ‘us’- the savior of relationships and memories…why don’t we see, the world is so drastically shifting from ‘being humans’ to ‘being robots’ in this race to create equilibrium?

There’s no longer satiety in our hearts!

We don’t feel things the way we are supposed to!

We don’t react to the fellow mate’s emotions the way a human being should! Rather we bias our thoughts on the scale of pros and cons. We think of what’s good for us and what not before taking the tiniest of step! We hesitate before doing good for others!

God has created us different, how can we create the parity? He brought about the difference for a purpose. He created women because he wanted emotions in the world. He didn’t want it to become a materialistic world!

Somethings are just not meant to be compared. Some parameters are just not meant to be brought to an equilibrium.

That’s the beauty of ‘differences’!

I hope I am able to make my point clear. For further clarification, I would like to add that I nowhere meant men lack emotions! But you would only agree if I say, woman’s emotion is magnificent when compared to that of a man’s!

Remove patriarchy but not the ‘woman’!

#LetWomenBeWomen

#saveWomanhood

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Nupoor Raj
Athena Talks

27. Pragmatic, ambivert, epistemophile. Optometrist. Writer by passion, Poet by a natural flaw | Not a Priest; Not an Atheist.