---------- To be born a Woman --------- Trigger Warning : Anger We were having our usual saturday night conversation and he asks me, what it is to be a woman." I don't know", I say in a half murmur. "I don't know", I repeat trying to reassure myself but memories kept flashing before me. I was reminded how from birth everything felt like a competition, how I had to prove my worth in every single turn of my life to be acknowledged even as a human, how I had to make sure I was smart but not too much, how I had to dress well but not too short, how I always had to find the right balance, the perfect words not to hurt any man's ego, how I came home crying of my helplessness after some random guy kept brushing against me on a transport bus and still had to listen to my father yelling on how I might have triggered him, how I kept seeing my relatives taking the side of a man who beats his wife and still expects the woman to go back and adjust for the sake of the family, how men at workplace easily got away with verbally abusing women because there was none who would back a women who fought back and stood her ground, how l trusted no man until he came along. I could write a whole page and still couldn't say enough. Slowly, I turned to him and ask, "What it is to be a man?" and he replies, "I don't know either". PIC CREDIT : Pinterest #womenwriter #writersofindia #womenempowerment #bornawoman #writerscommunity #writerofinstagram #mallugram #beingawoman #writer #malluwriter #malayaliwomenwriters #malayalam #wordporn #wordpornoftheday #workfromhome #workfromhomelife #lockdown2021 #anger #frustration #mentaldistress #moviequotes #movie (at Kerala) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPdp4KypRTF/?utm_medium=tumblr
