Femmè Fatalè........

Boys need Girls.Guys need Gals.Men need Women. They bring out the best in us. They are our source of inspiration and motivation. They are the impetus that we achieve feats extraordinairè. They are the reason why we dress up to look killer. They are the reason we learn to play our first guitar. They are the reason we buy Mean machines and perform mind-boggling stunts. Any whichever way you look at it, there is no way we can do without them. Let’s admit it. They are the reason we are who we are on Planet Earth.


Forget Homo Sapiens for a moment. How often have we seen that the Males of almost all fauna are the most beautiful, charming, striking and the strongest? There is a reason for all of this. Males know either through instinct or learn from experience that they have to be the best to be able to attract a befitting mate. Being excellent in any one department doesn’t earn an animal much credit. The Male has to be “Definitely Male” in the profoundest sense of the word. He has to be the best of the best in every damn conceivable attribute to be able to get himself a partner that others only yearn to get. Let’s hypothesize subtracting away the entire feminine half from the total population. What do we have??? It is not just the Male population we are going to be left with, but, a faction of creatures that will invariably be bland, lifeless and bereft of any competition among themselves. For then, whom should they have to work hard to be the best? There simply isn’t a reason for them to struggle it out. There simply isn’t any drive at all.


Sometimes, I thank the person sitting upstairs that he gave only limited understanding capabilities to almost all creatures……… Perhaps, he has created them with only enough knowledge so their existence answers the question “What do you as a creature need to survive??? Take care of your basic needs….Food and Reproduction.” If on the contrary, he had created them in such a way that the intelligence levels of all creatures would have been on par with the Humans, then the kind of unreasonable problems that we face today with the Human kind would have extended to all creatures. One such issue that we face today with people is a Skewed Sex Ratio of Males to Females in the Country. Sex-Selective Abortions happen to be one of the several problems that a Girl-child faces and what more than for this to happen even before she is born.


Nowadays with the kind of Technological Advancement we have, it is very easy for expecting parents to know the sex of their to-be-new-born. All they have to do is to go to a Hospital or a Private Nursing Home which is equipped with a state-of-the-art Ultrasound scanning machine and a shameless, immoral doctor. That is all there is to it really. Technology as you all know is a Double-Edged sword. Let’s use it to benefit ourselves by trying to know about say, how the foetus is doing, whether it is receiving the proper nourishment, what posture needs to be adopted to a maximum extent so that the foetus doesn’t receive shocks and such. Hell, when our mothers gave birth to us, they dint know a thing or rather they didn't have a choice to know something. It was only after we came into this world that we knew of our strengths and weaknesses and molded ourselves accordingly to come out on tops. Let’s please not use this technology to know the sex of the child that would be. Let’s not kill the anxiety and patience built up over a period of 9 months in under a minute by yielding to the temptation of using a machine whose intended purpose was totally different.


A bigger challenge lies in fighting something that is deeply rooted in the tradition of this Nation……Son-Preference. Indeed, there can be none better than our people at far-sightedness. Even before the child is born, we are already thinking of his/her marriage, what kinda money will come/leave the family, whose name will stay, what his/her education will be like, what line should (S)he follow? Hello people??? :-O…….The answers will unfold over a period of time. Let us not fast forward through life in 10x speed. It is almost as though, we want to live and see the 20 years of the kid’s life in like 20 mins. It is not as though we are just another class of animals brought into this world from the Land of Narnia who can Talk n Jabber. We are Social-Animals whose scientific name reads Homo-Sapiens. It is in our names to be “homogenously sapient” in this regard at least. Let us accept Nature the way it reveals the mystery.


Modernity and Economic progress don’t seem to have done much to help the situation either. People still have superstitious beliefs that if the Son-child performs the last rites once they have passed away, they will obtain Moksha or Salvation.It is only by seeing beyond all this that we may see the end of this Social-Evil.Targeting the right audience in urban and rural areas alike where there is a skewed Sex-Ratio or cases of female infanticide reported would make for a good beginning. Bringing the guillotine down on those who determine and reveal the sex of the child, invariably the doctors themselves, would provide the much needed boost to curb such heinous acts of Sex- Selective Abortions. Remember people that the girl-child could be a responsible and mature elder sister or a caring and adorable younger sister to someone.She is on par with anybody else and is certain to excel in the journey called Life. Sex-Determination of the Foetus is a crime. We may not know what the future holds for us, but, it is this very uncertainty that makes life worth living.