“ETERNAL MAN AND FRATERNAL MEDIA – A TALE OF SOBBING WOMAN”

Abstract

Man reflects attitude and woman radiates perspective. To charge male for misogyny may sound hoarse, but his mammal dominance to subdue even his own rib results in his sordid and sadistic painful victory. Woman partnered his life to perpetuate God’s will in myriad forms – mother, wife, sister, daughter and friend – for she is endowed with the virtue of perspective, not for her but for all. Times of rocks and rock-music strolled and sung the glory of woman’s beauty to elevate her to sensitive status, and hence woman display reverence to man and his environment. Man befriended Media being swayed by virtual vibrancy leaving the virtuous world of better-half. Result – Media, the chum of man closeted scintillating feminism. Today, woman is sandwiched between her man and media. Woman moved from broom staff to business buoyancy, wading through whirlpools controlled the heights of flights in war and peace and took the progeny to moon and mars. Nothing is spared including the space. Man and Media assured dignity of her life, privacy of her body and mind and to document her as history. The camaraderie of Man and Media extolled her beauty disguised in nudity, eulogized her trait in evasive embellishment and pierced her privacy in prurient publicity postures empowering everybody with her wealth and health. Laws exist in letters in favor of women protection and progress, but in execution become the three monkeys of Mahatma Gandhi. The innocuous press and media is often accused of distortion of feministic philosophy and putting the women issues in the sphere of conflicts and controversies. Be it east or west, woman is at rest. Feminism is provided with many care-takers in the form of faith, legislative umbrella, social renaissance and political patronage. She is required to hold the scepter of sanctity in the palace of piety. Both public and private discourse are exhausted of finding the solutions for the inexplicable woes of women. The Doctrine of Piety and the Rule of Sanctity are made more referral to woman, even on behalf of man. Onus of proof is always the ornament of tender gender i.e. woman. Though feministic jurisprudence could not annihilate the suffering of women-folk, it could instill a confidence in them to rebel against unscientific, untenable and unthinkable propositions of parochial proclamations with regard to social, economic, educational and political interests of women enrichment, half of nature’s strength and power. Who can judge on the concept of “Motherhood” when it is sought to be translated into commercial “surrogacy”? On whose basis the law of succession is to be conceived, formulated and emulated? Who will be the first victim of War, political, religious and linguistic chauvinism? How long should women live with entreaties before the imbalanced societies and governments and their agnatic agencies? List becomes lengthy and unwieldy with women issues. Most intriguing and interesting point is that women’s life is subjected to the traditions – be it rational or irrational – and customs of the land and place, varying differently and disdainfully. Did color white descend from heaven and black spring from hell? What is needed to understand Woman is not the man-made law but women-lead principles. Woman becomes rarely judgmental but always disinclined to be the judge. Man’s externalities hardly comfort the preserved pain of woman, but the humane sensibilities of man and his society may console her soul and convince her sensitive mind. Media, probably or presumably, has to stand for and if necessary fight for the millions of cursed women with bones and skin who are made to deliver children but could not give milk, give a clarion call for the destitute and divorced women guillotined under the cruelty of misguided beliefs and faiths anchored in religion, race, caste and birth. Indian culture and heritage is glorious and heterogeneous, loving and lulling, lure feminism with spell-bound chanting and deify woman, as could be perceived in other faiths of the world. This paper intends to endeavour to expose the plight of women – both privileged and under-privileged, educated and uneducated, young and old with regard to their social and economic conditions, and the impact of restive conditions of devastating violence and war on the women in consequence of the political, social and economic turmoil. While exhorting the role of the press and media in taking up the women issues to the public and government notice for remedial measures, this write-up also appeals to the media for more effective and progressive activism for the eradication of time-worn superstitions and dead-wood theories running against the women empowerment.