Kannammaa Writes

  So, my  IG DM  was filled about this Instagram page called  Patriarchal Phenomenon . The page is anti-feminism and advocates for women to be feminine, only marry older men, and women to only be housewives and mothers and totally dependent on their husbands. Now, meet Therese Margareth Saranza (pic, above) She’s my colleague from The Philippines. She has a medical condition called  Atlantoaxial Instability . Her condition used to give her excruciating headaches and she would often bang her head on the walls due to the pain. The condition progressed to  quadriplegia . This means she can’t move anything from the neck down like the late  Christopher Reeve . She can’t breathe on her own. She is bedridden and completely dependent on her caretakers. Christopher Reeve Therese is a graduate in BSc Psychology, cum laude at that. She’s been working for nearly a decade now from her bed, at her home. She uses voice recognition software to work and is a star emplo...

  “Social equality is a state of affairs in which all people within a specific society have equal rights, liberties, and status, possibly including civil rights, freedom of speech, property rights, and equal access to certain social goods and social services. Social equality requires the absence of legally enforced social class or caste boundaries and the absence of discrimination motivated by an inalienable part of a person's identity.” Read the above 10 times. Feminism and social equality are not your bequeathed ancestral property for you to redefine. So many culture vultures are redefining feminism. Apparently, feminism isn’t about women doing everything men do. Also, it’s apparently not about women dressing “vulgarly.” In other words, it’s “Men will decide what women should do and can do. Women should wear the dresses men approve.” It’s just soft re-establishing of patriarchy, these redefinitions. Everything, including drinking, clubbing, wearing what we like/comforta...