In 1997, when Laloo Yadav was
engulfed in fodder scam case, he cleverly put forward his wife Rabri Devi to be
CM in his place. In effect, the unlettered woman became a proxy of her vile
husband and carried on the destruction of the state for eight more years. These
eight years were vital, for the party to sustain itself for a comeback more
than a decade later. Had the (now lapsed) women’s reservation bill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Reservation_Bill)
been passed by the Lok Sabha, it would have filled Lok Sabha and legislatives
assemblies with dozens and dozens of Rabris.
It would have opened the
floodgates to fill one third of the parliament and legislatives assemblies with
daughters, wives, second/third/fourth
wives, concubines, sisters in law, grandmothers, aunts, granddaughters,
nieces, grandnieces etc of existing
incumbent political leaders.
Because anyone who thinks that
the only way to improve the situation by womens reservation (or for that
matter, any kind of reservation) is either watching too much Bollywood or has
some sort of vested interest.
So, in simple words, women’s
reservation in parliament is not going to give you great women leaders you see
in your wet dreams. It will result in puppets who will be controlled by the
same people you want to throw out of the system. It will not lead to
emancipation, it will lead to elitism.
Women essentially do not make
better leaders, because they, contrary to feminist propaganda, aren’t superior
to men at all when it comes to morals or principles, nor are immune to human
weaknesses. Wives pressurizing husbands in influential positions to rake more
in is as common as They often exceed their much maligned male counterparts in
greed, vengefulness or pure crassness when it comes to the political arena.
Its a fallacy to believe that
women legislators solve women’s problems better. This is an interference in the
democratic process of elections , it is insulting to the electorate who has the
right to choose the best person they deem fit to represent them. How disastrous
it will be if a election ticket is given to a corrupt woman candidate in place
of an honest male candidate just because the constituency seat is reserved or
women?
For every Golda Meir or Margaret
Thatcher, there are scores of corrupt women politicians who symbolise equality
and empowerment via the numbers wrt ill gotten wealth, scams and political
vendetta.
Women’s reservation bill, which
proposes 33% reservation for women in the parliament, has long been lapsed now.
Now, women’s organizations say that they want atleast 50%. Even 33% bill hasn’t
been passed and they are making more demands. This is like losing sleep over
which school a child will go to even
before you agree to conceive it.
“With the slogan "Ab 33 percent nahi 50 percent", the
National Alliance for Women's Reservation Bill has demanded 50 percent
reservation for women in the Lok Sabha and state assemblies instead of 33
percent.”
While womens reservation is
already in place in local bodies, and is now going to be increased to 50% , has
it really brought any change at village and block level?
By and large they remain proxy
rulers, rubbers stamps of their husbands and other people pulling the strings. Merely
getting elected because of being a woman to fill the quota serves no purpose if
the real power will remain firmly in the hands of the people you want to oust.
If this womens representation is such a failure at the local level, how is it
going to be a success at the national level?
But who wants to see reason in
the quota/reservation republic that is India?
Noticed something here? All this
begging accompanied by hoarse wailing for women’s reservation is communist/left
led. All the loudest spokespersons of it belong to the left.
So who wants to flag this dead
horse again? Why, the left, ofcourse. By making this a matter of feminism and
misogyny.
India has had a woman prime
minister for 16 years and having women chief ministers for various states has
been a common feature for many years. But feminist logic wants to see none of
this. India is the worst place for women. They are oppressed here. India means
rape. End of story. And you are a misogynist if you disagree.
Feminism for over a century now
has been a leftist tool to breakup the family unit, so that the next generation
is raised without any thoughts of its own with no power to fight back, so that it
can be moulded by the people in power to have them supporting them forever by
making them dependent on them forever. Feminism was promoted by both the
government and corporates, in order to have surplus labour, surplus consumers
for everything from durables to properties and at the same time bringing the
overall wage amount down. That is why the ‘’wage gap’’ argument is stupid. It
was meant to be that way. Feminism benefitted only a handful of wealthy women.
To the working class and middle class woman it has only given additional
responsibility to raise children alone, bigger debts, corporate slavery and
inability to have any kind of fulfillment in life.
Feminists are a funny species.
They claim that women are not just equal but superior to men, that women need
men like fish need bicycles, but at the same time they want big daddy
government run by these same oppressive men to make laws that are partial to
women (best example is 498 A ) wrt to divorce cases, domestic violence, sexual
harassment and in case of the west, even want the government to subsidise birth
control pills. Women don’t need men. But then men should pay all their shopping
bills , restaurant bills and pay alimony in case of a divorce.
Indian feminists are more
pathetic than their western counterparts for two reasons:-
1: Not a single thought in their puny
brains in original. All the clichés that they use today, have been used in the
1960s and 1970s. I’m just waiting for them to start using the “98 genders” fad
that is the looney left’s latest.
2: They simply fail to observe
and learn the destruction that has been brought on the west by their beloved
and now obsolete ideology. They want the same ruin to befall them.
Here is feminism, in chaste Hindi,
as it is applied in India :-
“Main aaj ki naari hoon, mujhe
ab is rishte mein sirf mera apmaan nazar aata hai. Talaq chahiye mujhe , taaki
main apne astitva ko dhoond sakuu. Ab do karod de kutte, main jiyungi kaise?”
What is true at the micro level
is also true at the macro level. Women’s reservation wont produce any Golda
Meir in India. It will only produce more of Mayawati, Jayalalitha, Mamata
Bannerjee or Sasikala or Jagir Kaurs. Reservation does not produce quality. It
only legitimises illness in the guise of
promoting equality.
This country already has problems
and filth thrust on it which will take atleast two generations to be rectified
if started today, hence making neither this writer or the reader be able to see
their results.
Lets not add more to it.
“To be a feminist is to acknowledge that one’s life
has been regressed. The demand for granting preferential treatment to women is
an admission on her part of her inferiority and there has been no need for such
a thing in India as the women have always been by the side of men in Council
and in the fields of battle…. We must have no mutual conflict in our homes or
abroad. We must transcend differences. We must rise above nationalism, above
religion, above sex.”
– Sarojini Naidu
(at the Fourth session of All India Women’s Conference, Bombay, 1930)
– Sarojini Naidu
(at the Fourth session of All India Women’s Conference, Bombay, 1930)
