-Harsahej Mann

“Only we riotous livers have imagined that this way was bad , and have invented another . And this other , — what is it ? It is this. The young girls are seated, and the gentlemen walk up and down before them, as in a bazaar and make their choice. The maidens wait and think, but do not dare to say: “ Take me , young man , me and not her. Look at these shoulders and rest.” We males walk up and down and estimate the merchandise, and then we discourse upon the rights of women, upon the liberty she acquires, I know not how , in the theatrical hall !” Leo Tolstoy ( The Kreutzer Sonata And Other Stories )

“The personal is political” Carol Hanusch

The contagion called feminism has engulfed us all. It is like a disease, the vaccine to which has been ostensibly developed yet the virus within the vaccine has not been wholly inactivated , hence the ineffectiveness of the vaccine called feminism. As females, how liberally emancipated are we ?
Do we and can we call a young girl in a hijab an emancipated woman ? Or does the ambit of liberal emancipation only take into its herald young, cigarette wielding , scantily clad girls ? What of the inner republic of spirit ? Can a burka clad girl be “more -of -an -emancipated – female” than the club going apparition of liberality ?
Take for example , a young girl of 20 , who does none of the above because she finds the concept of making merchandise of herself a purely reprehensible idea . She is totally opposed to the idea of “ hooking – up”. Would you call her emancipated ? Would you include her in the bandwagon of your feminism ? Perhaps not . People talk about all types of inclusivity . Where do people like her go ? Society’s caricature of an emancipated young girl has become so incorrigible , that I fear it will not grant me an entry .

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