PROSTITUTION ( விபச்சாரம் )
The word prostitution is mostly used in the context of sex between man and woman. Most importantly, if a woman has sex with man other than husband, or man who is enjoying her presently on lease from some husband who is a pimp, these men and public use this word to condemn her and thereby foist a major crime on her. But, they don't call prostitution if the same woman is pimped to some other man by husband or man who is keeping her. All curses will be only on with women only.
Moreover such blames, abuses, curses and usages do not exist for men. There is a custom for calling a man male-prostitute. So this merely signifies women nothing but slaves. This is because the 'sin of prostitution' and 'immortality arising out of prostitution' is applied only to women and men.
Ordinarily, words like " chastity " and " prostitution " are not necessary for a life filled with freedom and equality. These words don't have even a little relevance to natural behaviour. Even though everybody accepts that is against nature, both are imposed only on women and not on men. Moreover men are not afraid of it, they are not ashamed of it, they are not controlled by it and d they are not bothered about it.
So, prostitution and its underlying doctrine cannot be accepted because it seeks to enslave women, it has been built on the concept that women are slaves and it is totally unrelated to men. If prostitution is going to an obstacle to the efforts undertaken for women's freedom and women's liberation, it is the duty of the truly persevering persons to daringly cast it away and move forward.
THE PLIGHT OF WIDOWS ( விதவைகளின் நிலை )
Political reformers struggled to ensure Indians get power to govern themselves; social reformers are working to eradicate communalist and catalyst differences in Indian society; but nobody is having sufficient concern about the suppression of women. Both among men and women there are intelligent and brave persons as well as cowards as there is no inferiority between men and women. But it is so cruel to treat women treat a women unfair and arrogant to degrade, humiliate, enslave and torture. Many cruelties practiced by Hindu men on women of their religion in the name of widows.
Even a ripe old man would attempt a remarriage if his wife is dead and the irony is he would select a beautiful young women but if the same happens to a women she must tightly shut all her natural desires for lifetime and die in dejection and sadness. This is injustice! Very regrettable and kind of social suicide.
In ancient days, it was a practice to climb a widow to her husband's funeral pyre. This sati system was eradicated as a result of monumental efforts taken by Warren Hastings, William Bentick and Indian intellectuals like Raja Ram Mohanroy. Due to their struggle in due course the sati system fully disappeared from India.
But now, the custom that prohibits widows from remarriage is crueller than sati system. Becoming sati is one day sorry; whereas living as a widow is a lifetime torture.
Mahatma Gandhi writes about remarriage :
" The widows must calmly and courageously reveal their feelings to their parents or guardians. If they do not pay heed, the widows can marry a man of integrity by themselves. If the widow's guardians do not give heed, they will have to pay the consequences in later days. Because, I only find improper conduct in everybody. By forcibly preventing the widows and making them follow widowhood, no good will ever come to the widows, or to the family, or the dharma of widowhood. With my own eyes, I am seeing the destruction of these three categories. Child widows! You and the men and women who force you to live as widows should realize this "
Taking into consideration the welfare, social progress and human compassion they should campaign and abandon their sluggish attitude and destroy the cruelty of widowhood.
PROPERTY RIGHTS ( சொத்துரிமை )
In India, there exist several cruelties, out of them there are two major important cruelties that need to be solved immediately so that people of the world don't consider Indians as barbarians. First cruelty is Indian people are considered untouchable by birth, treated worse than irrational animals and more disgracefully than worms and insects. The second is the practise of considering Indian women as unfit for independence right from their birthm saying that they were created by " God " himself to the slaves of men, and treating them like walking corpses.
Until these above mentioned cruelties are destroyed, it is impossible to demand complete independence for India, or to say that the Indian people will look after India's defence and governance themselves or that Indians don't need any relation with foreign countries. But irrespective of extent of disgrace and torture it isn't easy to make such people realize the real difficulties because India is not only surrounded by cruelty and the lack of integrity, but it is also under the embrace of stupidity and superstition. Yet there is enough evidence to provide us the hope that the situation will change.
Next, even in the matter of women's freedom and feelings have been tied up. The cruelty shows that Indians don't have the feelings of freedom and it is evident that they are the children of slaves.
If women have property rights, all the discomforts that they face will be eliminated. They can lead a superior lives if they have property rights. If parents provide education and profession to women, they will acquire the power to earn property. Later, they might be able to select their husbands, or live a life of independence with the husband selected by their parents.
It is our opinion that of the many reasons why a woman is enslaved, the most important reasons is that she lacks right to property. So it plays very important role for women to come forth liberally and courageously and agitate for their property rights.
BIRTH CONTROL ( பிறப்பு கட்டுப்பாடு )
Birth control is essential for women to attain liberation and independence. Others advocate contraception on the babies of problems of woman’s health, well-being of children, the economy of the nation, portioning of ancestral property and so on Several people in Western countries support this. But in our opinion, none of these are the primary factors why birth control needs to be practised.
He says women to stop having children because pregnancy is an enemy to the freedom and liberation of women. Because of having more children, even men are unable to live with autonomy, courage and independence. People sell their freedom and become slaves for the sake of livelihood.
Pregnancy is cruel enemy to independence of women, because women lack wealth, income and a profession, they have to expect the support of others to raise their children. So we say that women should certainly stop having babies. Pregnancy is also the root cause for women contracting diseases, developing signs of premature aging, having reduced lifespan and their lives cruelly cut short.
Therefore, we say that women must stop having children in order to be free, independent and attain emancipation. It is our opinion that campaign for birth control is more important than the campaign against liquor and the campaign against communicable diseases.
" MASCULINITY " MUST BE DESTROYED FOR WOMEN'S LIBERATION ( பெண்கள் விடுதலைக்காக "ஆண்மை"அழிக்கப்பட வேண்டும் )
Everybody knows the number of associations and activities in the name of women's liberation across the world keeps increasing day by day. In his opinion, any liberation movement created by men cannot give real liberation to women. Likewise not only does women's liberation also become stronger. Men's pretence of respecting women and working for their liberation is nothing but a conspiracy to cheat women.
Women should remember that as long as ' masculinity ' exists in the world, ' femininity ' wouldn't be respected. As long as ' masculinity ' exists in the world, the enslavement of women will keep increasing. Unless women destroy the concept of ' masculinity ' , it is certain that they will not attain liberation. All over the world, the words freedom and bravery have been made the property of ' masculinity '. Men have come to a conclusion that only masculinity possesses those qualities.
If women undertake other steps for their liberation, it might present a little difficulty to men. But if women are not going to have children, men will not have any hardship or loss. To a great level, a man is unable to be honest and independent only because he has children. Moreover, his unnecessary worries and responsibilities increase.
This is one of the finest works of Periyar E.V Ramasamy. Check this book and this book could even be a eye opening for many people. People should empathise others beyond genders as humans.
My view:
As these all rules implied by our Indians are to be abolished for the development of feminism. Some of the stringent rules imposed on women's have been overcome and some are still being fought for their rights. There are equal rights for all women and men and by this century the current and future generation has to team up and fight against the bad evils imposed on them.
As once Karl Marx said " Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex ".
There is a old saying in Tamil " If a man is educated a family is developed, If a women is educated the society is developed ".
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