On Celebrating Women.

On celebrating her victories not variance; a discuss on heightened zeal in the international scene.

It is no news that the quest to ensure the freedom of women, their total emancipation from whatever limitations they are or were made to face is one which has been recurrent and has attracted actions by major players all over the world. However, the question as to whether these actions on the whole are properly guided or driven by uncontrolled zeal is to be asked.

The possibility of women being further repressed by misguided actions is one which hovers and seeps through actions and campaigns centered around women at any given opportunity. How do i mean? Often times, in the celebration of women, there is the possibility of exalting the barriers, challenges and hurdles that women face through ideas or talks that expose the daily challenges of a woman over her victories and success.

The celebration of a woman should mirror her strength, her capacity and her achievements amongst others. Her challenges may be mentioned but it must not become the crux of the celebration of the woman.

The time for women to really be seen as having requisite capacities to take on the world and maximise their potentials is now in its fullness. The opportunities made available to a woman must not be borne out of pity, or a disguised means of reemphasising the stereotypes. No one wins a war by playing small for the enemy to pity or be lenient with him. A woman must be celebrated by her capacity and ability to break out of the shackles and barriers that the society has placed on her.

The need for moderation in the expression of zeal geared towards the achievement of gender equality (Goal 5, SDGs) cannot be over-emphasised. Uncontrolled zeal has done more harm than good. It has passed on the wrong message to girls growing to become women. Girls are first made to understand the likely problems they may face instead of their capacities. They are made to attack their future and not ease into it based on the possibilities it holds and the requisite capacities they possess to take on the world regardless of stereotypes. 

It is agreed that girls must be made to understand the walls built by stereotypes but not at the expense of training them to first be graceful, strong and focused women.

The antagonistic approach towards the world as expressed by many women support groups or individuals has further plunged the modern woman into an imaginary battle that she may never have to fight or one that she could have handled better but for the mismatched weapons of antagonism, anger and improperly emphasised limitations placed in her arsenal by the persons given the responsibility of passing on knowledge and tradition to her.

The woman must understand that the battle geared towards the  understanding and respect of a woman is taking too long and as such a new plan of action must be devised. A plan of action that does not magnify her barriers or further perpetuate the societal woes she may have to face, rather a plan of action that demands respect not begs for it. A plan of action of conviction; not conviction for the world but a personal conviction about her abilities, her strength, her goals, her big dreams and her ability to take the world without calling for sentiments but merit, for the worth of the work she has put into becoming who she desires to be while achieving them on a level playing ground with male counterparts.

Women must not be carried away by the patronising undertones that the excessive zeal in promoting a woman carry.   They  must be wise to pick the lessons and ignore the excessive zeal as it may push them to either go overboard, lose faith in their abilities or seek opportunities specially created (which often times, further perpetuates the societal ills against women, why seek a quota for a position that involves competing with male counterparts?). The modern woman must embrace her strengths and forget the barriers, do that which she is perceived incapable of, be a silent worker but a loud achiever, that way, the societal stereotypes will fizzle out in the face of her acts for change and not mere call for change.

This post is published in commemoration of the International Women's Day!

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