Painted nails, hairless bodies and fruity fragrances, these are the attributes that one is conditioned to refer to women with.
Being "conditioned" means looking through a structure influenced by what one usually witnesses around them, a frame that then gets etched in the growing soils of one's mind.
Eerie minds look for sculpted faces, and reel masters don't hesitate to serve them. What unknowingly and unintentionally gets awakened in the the back of their minds is their picturization and their expectations of a woman.
The eyes perceiving what is shown, don't just appreciate the beauty of a woman. What they perceive along with pretty faces are the standards and norms of beauty.
Muscular arms, moustaches and broad shoulders ; it's not wrong to associate men with these features. What actually is problematic, is when one treats a woman with the same attributes as an inferior.
What one sees and perceives, is what one expects. While portraying the femininity of a woman, one tends to forget how ferocious a woman can be.
What one tends to ignore is the fact that women can be associated with dicing vegetables but also with daggers on someone's throat, it becomes not just a threat to the imagination of a man but also the self respect of a woman.
The image shown of a woman has not been created lately. It has been passed on through generations of men who've watched and perceived women as weak and delicate beings.
One sees women used to attract attention at every page of a newspaper, every channel on television and every advertisement on a radio. No woman knew they were such audience magnets.
Success in the life of a man is termed as achievement while the success of woman is the reward for the beauty of her body and her bond with her superior.
Men can react to something but women can only overreact. A bad male driver is accused of having more feminine hormones.
One more fact that emerges out of this perceived ideology is that it is shameful to be a woman.
In this sector, a woman can only be a damsel in distress and can only be saved by a knight in the shining armor.
The entertainment field fails to acknowledge that a woman is more than just a physical body, a perceived image or a submissive and delicate creature. A woman can be as ferocious as a huntress.
With the right motivation, a woman can be a WOMAN (in the actual sense) and a man can be an actual MAN (an educated one who does perceive that the sort of women he witnesses are the only ones that exist.
~ the_penhaloer
