Freedom is not a favour

The word ‘allowed’ in family circles of conservative societies perplexes me no end.

I see umpteen men and women assume and broadcast rights they do not really possess.

“We ‘allow’ our women to ……”

Allow????

Do they really need permission? If they ask for it, it is a social conditioning. The baby elephant does not walk even after her chains are removed, because she believes she cannot. Women have been forced to fit in these narrow jars of social expectations, where they believe they are not entitled to do certain things.

The easiest way to enslave a population is to make them think in boxes, and follow the leaders. They stop seeing everything that lies out of those boxes, and ugly truths of domination fall easily in the cracks.

They ‘believe’ it is for their safety. They ‘believe’ they cannot manage their own lives. They ‘believe’ they always need to…