Warped Feminism

What has always intrigued me is the behaviour of the two sexes. They react differently in the same situation, have very different ways of tackling problems and different lines of thought. To all the people who think both the sexes are the same and perfectly capable of doing the same thing efficiently for every single thing...it's not true. Feminism seems to have taken a whole new turn. Unfortunately, it bugs me so bad that I'm willing to face criticism on this very public site from every single chick i know, whose a feminist. From fighting for the right to equal wages and voting(which I approve of, mind you)we have gone to extremes where we think we are superior and can do everything far better than a man can. We demand more reserved seats, tennis women demand equal pay when they play 3 sets unlike the men who play 5, we have a woman's quota in some medical college and god knows what else! Let me be clear when I say I've always wanted equal rights for women. But they dont seem 'equal' anymore.We seem to be getting a lot more than necessary and we dont seem to have stopped asking. Unfortunately, due to all this, I have become an irrational women hater.I do not want a sex change so dont even suggest it.The reason for this atttitude started during my train rides. Women are just born annoying. I think. They 'claim' seats(still dont know why that system works and why new dunderheads spring up and follow it), nag you when you dont answer questions poking fun at your upbringing, do not help women entering the trains, in fact making it more difficult to enter, dumping half of their arses on the fourth seat and my leg, have poor judgement and sense of direction and behave like kids-all for that goddamn window seat!For all their caring and sensitive nature*rolls eyes*, it seems to fly out the window during the train journey. Men are far cooler in trains. Women have this annoyong habit of mothering you(I speak on behalf of my guy friends),giving you advice when you dont ask for it,calling to catch up on your life(mainly to get some new tidbit of gossip), hugging you even though you just met yesterday and their constant need for details.They seem to lack any sense of comprehension when you give them subtle but obvious hints and think you're rude if you're blunt with them.Apologising to a woman is by far, the worst. A man doesnt mind a simple sorry. The less hassled ones dont even mind if you start talking normally with them. They consider it forgotten. In fact, I find that men are slightly annoyed sometimes with the number of times a woman says sorry and their long drawn out apologies. I guess this is due to a habit developed because women do it to each other.She has to talk about what led her to do the thing she did,, what she did, what consequences it had,how it was all a misunderstanding, how she misinterpreted it and will never do it again..blah blah...Sometimes women do not realise that feminism is a curse. Women have taken on 2 jobs now instead of one. And they do it single handedly. They rationalize by saying they can multi task well. I'm sure men can do it too but they seem smarter to not even try and worry themselves unecessarily.Someone was right when they sent me a forward saying 'with women ruling the world, there wont be a war.We would just be stuck with jealous countries not talking to each other.'You can blame Eve for being curious like a woman always is, and eating the apple all you want but now you can blame the feminists for claiming to be superior and dumping additional work on us. Thankfully my non feminist mother has left me the option of choosing.
Finally.
I'll choose the less painful, therefore successfully evading Eve's curse.

Alleluia!

Disclaimer:These are my own thoughts. Hurting religious sentiments is not intended. Anything apart from character judgements is welcome.

My history is necessary for this post. I have a Roman Catholic mother and a Hindu father.My father didn't wish to baptize me for the simple reason that he wished to give me a choice. I have gone to church for as long as I can remember and Sunday school till fourth grade.I got sick of sunday school and quit, giving my mother the water tight reason of feeling left out because everyone I knew were preparing to receive the sacrament of communion. The real reason was simple: it made no sense.

Slowly, my transformation to the other extreme began. Being an aethist was easy and it went well with my naturally cynical way of looking at things. I scoffed at the ten commandments, how God would destroy a whole world of people and then regret it later(Noah's Ark), how God was so vengeful every single time someone did something wrong...Honestly, I thought God had some serious temper issues...

The rosay at home stopped. However the church going continued since I didnt want to upset my mother. Till then, karma seemed to make more sense than religion. What goes around comes around. Though I never believed in it but I never saw anything wrong with it either. However, a simple fact escaped me. The wrongs that I have done in my life far exceed the right. If I have to pay back for all of those things, I would definitely have the most miserable life possible.And I didnt seem to be having one.So karma was definitely out.

That led me to believe that I read the bible without a clear head. So I started to read the world's bestseller and most shoplifted book far more carefully.Today I think the Bible makes sense but the Catholic Church doesnt. All the things that I've been brainwashed into believing the first eleven years of my life came back and I realised it wasnt the Bible's fault. It was the Church, for twisting it or not explaining it well at all.

Baptizing few month old babies when Jesus himself was baptized at the age of 30 seems like forced conversion to me. Brainwashing kids into believing that you have to pray at a particular time during the day(because God is only gonna hear you then), not allowing nuns to say the mass(this coming from a non feminist)and listening to the same sermons every single year that are way too far fetched to even try.

Banning the Da Vinci Code book, saying that it goes against your faith, tells me how not confident they are about your faith and how it can be easily manipulated-because of a single book. The Church seems afraid of questions and people are so used to the routine that no one asks. Why cant you let people read and decide for themselves?

What infuriated me(though it may sound petty) was the sudden hate directed towards the Harry Potter books. It apparently propogates dark magic and gives you ideas about magic and how things can be achieved without the need of faith.Have they read the books? The books clearly put Dark(black) magic on the bad side and the only thing that could defeat it was love. In fact, Severus Snape who gets lured into the Dark Arts but leaves it to join the Order reminds me of the prodical son or Paul.

The books led to many kids finally taking up reading(including me) as a hobby-which was dying then..

The way the Chruch twists one of the beatitudes makes me nauseous.

'Happy are the poor for they are rich in spirit.'

And then the priests goes on to tell you how its allright to be poor. That God is always there to take care of you and atleast you'll get better rewards than the rich in heaven. That the rich do not get a good nights sleep because they're constantly worrying about money while the poor can sleep well because they've had a honest day's work and have nothing to worry about.

Plainly romanticizing poverty.

Dont swallow that vomit.

It's not okay to be poor. You dont need to be happy in that rut that you're living in. Work hard for more and there's damn well nothing wrong with wanting more. A rich man can do an honest day's work and still get sleep at night. And still get to heaven. You probably would be stupid for not trying and just waiting to die so God can handfeed you.

All of the seven deadly sins(gluttony,lust,greed,despair,wrath,pride,vanity,acedia) are natural human tendencies and you do tend to give in to them(some of them to me are allright as long as you arent hurting someone else). And when you do hurt someone and feel guilty about it and truly regret it, you can go ask for forgiveness(the whole point of Jesus dying for you-which nullifies the karma law-and therefore makes more sense).

"In the past the Church used to just kill everyone who posed the remotest threat to their empire..They cant do that anymore so they struggle to mantain some semblance of power and relevance with stunts like these." -Yash.

Hopefully, one day I will have the courage to raise my itching hand in the middle of mass, and ask him some of my questions.