Me-Too trends

Sir,
Me-Too movement, spreading in India like a wild fire in a way that ensures full justification to the word ‘wild’ as well as ‘fire’, has some general trends attached to it. Most of the allegations are put forward by the women who are comparatively less successful than the men against whom they have levelled these allegations, with both of them, in almost all of the cases, belonging to the same field of work. There are lot of inferences that can be derived through this, depending upon from where you view this and the point from where I would prefer to view this, is still undecided.
Maybe, we have reached a stage where this form of exploitation in which a woman should be ready to present herself as an object of sexuality for her male bosses, in order to raise her level in the professional hierarchy has become a norm – a sort of prerequisite for success, or for attaining promotions or sometimes, simply for getting work. The women complaining, if such is the case, are the ones who objected at one level to this abjection, which, unfortunately, resulted in the stalling of their career progression, if not the complete end of it.
Another inference that could come out of this is that the campaign is being used by Women and sometimes, these women are being used by someone else in order to exploit people at higher echelons or settling scores with them, for those who are at such positions have a lot to lose, lot of reputation to protect, lot of money to give and of course, lot of enemies and competitors.
Another aspect that cannot be ignored is that the women working in the same field, who are relatively more successful, are maintaining their silence over this. This may be because they fear losing all that they have gained, which points out to the sad fact that their industry is still under the domination of men named in the campaign and their career too, despite reaching such heights, is vulnerable to the wishes of their predatory male bosses. Moreover, they are still not ready to risk it even it’s for supporting the victim.
Notwithstanding which inference one adheres to, one cannot ignore an aspect common to all three of them – they depict a sad state of affairs; they depict how we have failed in training our sons and brothers; they depict how the issue of gender empowerment has been thrown open to be used as a tool for vested interests, and these interests, one must note, are not always the interests of men only.
Deepankar Sharma
Ambphalla Jammu

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