Unlike the title, this is no story of the shoe, its about stepping in the male shoe and walking a little to understand what it feels to be a man in a metropolis city where the status of equality demanded by women is in synergy with the special seat reservations for women in buses.
Every day I take a bus from my home to work, needless to say its packed with people and every day I thank the government policy for having reserved some seats for women to save them from the desperate hands of lecherous men. I think its a little hypocrite but its better then being victimized
So I do not have any intentions to step in the shoes of the always-so-desperate men but the few of the lot who are are scared like a mice to even get a tiny brush of a women for fear of being a victim of ridicule and disgusted stares from fellow passengers.
I encountered such a fragile and conscious mind on my way to office, who sat on seat allocated to the 'ladies'. He was accompanied by a women who comfortably sat on one of the allocated seats and advised him to sit on the adjacent one till some "lady" claims for it.
His face had pitiful expressions with unfocused conversations with his companion and every time the bus halted, his eyes would search for women passengers walking towards him so that he would get up before being asked to do so.
In another incident while talking to an activist on domestic violence I was told about the facts and figures on violence against men which were clearly shocking
Made me think : In a world where women rights are lobbied,screamed about and fought for how soon men are going to raise their voices for their rights or would this damage their male egos and they would have to silently suffer for decades before it comes out openly.
Every day I take a bus from my home to work, needless to say its packed with people and every day I thank the government policy for having reserved some seats for women to save them from the desperate hands of lecherous men. I think its a little hypocrite but its better then being victimized
So I do not have any intentions to step in the shoes of the always-so-desperate men but the few of the lot who are are scared like a mice to even get a tiny brush of a women for fear of being a victim of ridicule and disgusted stares from fellow passengers.
I encountered such a fragile and conscious mind on my way to office, who sat on seat allocated to the 'ladies'. He was accompanied by a women who comfortably sat on one of the allocated seats and advised him to sit on the adjacent one till some "lady" claims for it.
His face had pitiful expressions with unfocused conversations with his companion and every time the bus halted, his eyes would search for women passengers walking towards him so that he would get up before being asked to do so.
In another incident while talking to an activist on domestic violence I was told about the facts and figures on violence against men which were clearly shocking
Made me think : In a world where women rights are lobbied,screamed about and fought for how soon men are going to raise their voices for their rights or would this damage their male egos and they would have to silently suffer for decades before it comes out openly.
