Stop!
Wife-beaters might be stylish. But only as a piece of clothing.
We often relate animal-like, ruthless behaviour with the uneducated, undeveloped part of the society and assume that the ‘high-class’ and ’sophisticated’ part of it are God-sent angels who never indulge themselves in such things. We think that poor and financially dependent women have to accept being physically tortured by their partners, since they cannot feed their families without the man or have no place to go. Whereas, if a woman of today, modern, educated and well aware of her rights, is met with such a treatment, she will surely raise a voice against it.
But why can’t I see it happening? Why are these women still taking all this? All these women who claim to be liberated and independent. Am I missing something here? Howcome a poor illiterate woman, like my maid back home, could leave her abusive husband and manage to take care of her four daughters rather wonderfully, when all these other women say… ‘Oh! But he loves me!’
Nobody has the right to torture you mentally, emotionally or physically… in the name of love, marriage, or any god damn thing in the world.
I find it very difficult to respect people who cannot respect themselves.
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hiii, how are you? It has been a while I didn’t visit your blog … :)
Yeah there are some women who can’t raise this issue when it happened to them. I think there are few reasons why these women just keep quiet.
1. For the sake of their kids
2. They thought their husbands love them
3. Afraid to be independent
4. Don’t know what to do
5. Forgive their husbands and still love them
But I agree with you that abusive can’t be tolerant, mentally and physically. Women have their rights too.
hey mona, what about the women who dont have kids and are not married to the guy as yet?
sadly true….everyones chained to the walls created by their own myths and beliefs.
i cant live on my own, i need somebody to love me, my life will never be better….etc.
thats when i say “Break on through to the other side”
erm! aaa.. hello! howdy!!
Naina - yes! break free from one’s own mindset!
Rajat - hestiate mat karo, vatsa! bolo… kya kathinayi hai? galey mein khich khich?
Ya. Nothing can help you unless you yourself want freedom.
hehe!! kuch nahi mata!! mai thumhare darshan ke liyea tumhare blog pe padhara tha! darshan ho gaye.. ab mai prasthan karta hau.. jai shree krishna!!
what prompted this post?
ummm…. yup the menace is much more widespread that we think it is… sadly its the so called elite and sophisticated women who go thru all this without even saying a word…. the excuses range from wot mona has mentioned to the belief that somehow someday magically it’ll all change…
but sadly….it doesn’t change just like that …
its not just married people … people in relationships take a lot of mental ‘beating’ too …. some of my lady friends actually say “its ok , my love will change him” …… i feel like yelling , WHAAAAAAAAAT WAKE UP , its not that easy!…. sheesh :/