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#NotAllMen, from sympathetic, to toxic.

 In this era of people (here, women) facing harassment, eve-teasing, rape by men, post their issues anywhere socially always are reverted by the statement, not all men or say #NotAllMen. Social media is seeing this hashtag for the past 10 yrs. and this phrase is older than your great grandfather. How? Miss Wardle: Men are such deceivers. Mr. Tupman: They are, but not all men. This is the scrape from the popular novel 'Pickwick Papers' (1836)  by Charles Dickens. Whenever any crime against women takes place anywhere in the world, men, who do not get involved tend to be a 'good man' impose the same hashtag also abbreviated as NAMALT. They consider this as their defense mechanism. Feminism has always focused on equality among everyone despite gender. Even feminists initially found it worthy and this phrase was also part of 'The Feminist Movement'.  Whether it is about the 2015 Bengaluru mass gathering and molestation, murder of a woman police officer in America by ...

We-Men's Day!

Recently the world “observed” WORLD MEN’S DAY on 19th November. Similar to every occasion the men’s day followed the same trend where people rather update their stories than wishing their special ones personally. The question we should ask ourselves is do men really get what they deserve? Does the pseudo feminism presiding over the minds of most of the people around us have served the “patriarchal society” their fair share of the pie? We know the answers, right? I’m not going deep into the minds of the over passionate feminine promoters, rather I’ll be sticking more on the surface of what men got on their day. I saw posts with sad taglines, quotes, or slogans for men. Yes! I want to ask such people; are men around you reduced just to their sorrows? Or they don’t mean anything else than their sad phases, their struggles, and their pain? Some of them updated their stories saying “we are with you in your depression, your mental health issues (not going to blabber about this either), etc....