Hello my dear readers.

I had another blog on the way. But then I watched Maa Behen (available on Netflix) and I just had to stop and write this. Right now. Because some things cannot wait for the next scheduled post.

As you all know, I am a woman. I have my own opinions and thoughts. And I have been at tables where I was asked not to give an opinion, raise a voice, to be quiet, to be silent, simply because I am a woman.

So this blog is for every male who has ever tried to silence me.

Happy news. You never succeeded.

As a woman, our entire world is built to be centric to men. Think about it. As a girl, you are a daughter and your world revolves around your father. Then society decides you have reached a marriageable age and you get married, and it will revolve around the husband.

And then apparently I have a biological clock to worry about. A legacy to continue. A family to grow. OMG.

And once that chapter begins, the pressure does not stop until a son is born. Because somehow that is still the goal for some people. And then the woman becomes a mother and now the son becomes the world. How wonderful!

Tell me, still you think world is not centric to man?

And yet, that same man will be possessive about you, because that is how he feels entitled, as the head of the family.
As a woman of the house, we are still not allowed to ask questions. We cannot make them feel accountable, and they cannot take accountability for themselves either. We cannot raise our voice or share a concern. And the moment we do, we are shut down.

That is why when someone asks me why I have strong opinions, why I do not just get married and settled, what they are really asking is why my world is not revolving around a man. And I find that very telling.

They say we as woman attention. We make them angry. We do this, we do that. But really, is it us? Or have we been so thoroughly gaslit and manipulated into thinking the problem is us, that we have started to believe it?

Yes, the world is changing. I hear the whispers about male loneliness. I see the shifts happening.
And I am not against men. I want to be very clear about that.

What I am against is not having my own choice.
My own freedom. My own opinion. My own timeline. My own wish to want what I want without having to justify it to anyone.

This society was built around men. It has been about men for a very long time. And it is time, as women, that we choose our own timelines. Work around ourselves. Do what we want. Live how we want.

And no matter which male chauvinist shows up trying to silence you, I dare you to roar like a lioness.
Because remember, in the pride, it is the lioness who hunts.
It is the lioness who brings food. It is the lioness who keeps everything going. And she does it all on her own terms.

So No. Do not agree to things just because society says this is how it is. That society was written for by a another men.

Write your own world.