Sania Mirza, Feminism, Chauvinism, and CryBabism

Statutory Warning to the Male Readers : Please dont read this post just because the title involves Sania Mirza, all you MCPs will be disappointed because she is a feminist now and not an "object" of visual consumption anymore..

Statutory Warning to the Female Readers : Please read this , specially if you are the "feminist to the core" of Facebook or Twitter, the two most fertile grounds of budding feminism, you will get lot of material to comment, share, criticize and dislike - which will really furthur your cause-  and vent out your feministic wrath against the male dominated society.

The newspapers have been flush with  news about the internal squabbles, the confusion, the humdrum in the sending of the Indian Tennis team to the London Olympics. Amongst all of it a new messiah - though old Testament would disagree since according to it the Messiah has to be a male- has risen, the champion of saving the "Indian Womanhood from prosecution", our very own glamour doll - which she had happily accepted herself to be but not anymore -Sania Mirza. I was moved to tears to finally realize that yes the ideal of equality was soon to be realized because we have a "PowerPuff" girl (Indian Express called her so) amongst us now  and all we chauvinistic MojoJojos would be served what we deserved.

The blasphemy that happened was that  Mahesh Bhupati and Rohan Bopanna were partners in Doubles. Bhupati had committed to Bopanna. None of the two was ready to partner with Peas. So there was a "Big Deal" that Peas would partner with Sania in the Mixed doubles and Vishnu Vardhan in doubles. Sania Mirza displayed real team spirit declaring that she would perform her best whomever she is paired  with. However keeping  with her feminist fundamentals she spoke up against the "disgruntled stalwart", her partner to be  in the London Olympics and with whom - she in the previous sentence had declared - would be giving her best.

Ofcourse Peas should not retaliate, he should silently take the insult, because any retaliation would
come from his "male ego". It is a fact that bargaining for players and partners is a regular phenomenon, and the only event other than doubles where one can bargain is Mixed Doubles and definately a female had to be involved. So what ? For the sake of equality Peas should have treated the  female "differently" not just as a "player". We want equality then how can he treat the female as an Equal, so what if in the process he would have violated Plato who said "Equals are treated Equal" . And dare anybody equate this with the fear psychosis that is visible in minorities. This is just not that.

I must salute Ms. Mirza for this crusade against oppression by the males.  She has been a constant victim of the male-centric society. She has been made really beautiful along with being endowed with the skill of tennis. She has constantly been devoured on the screen by the male vultures oops! I mean viewers. Ofcourse this led to her becoming much more popular than she would have by the sole virtue of her game. But no body can imagine the agony that our "true feminist" must be going through while becoming brand ambassador, minting money, rising the popularity charts, participating in Wills India Fashion Weeks, Lakme India Fashion Weeks etc. My heart cries when I imagine how she must have felt being reduced to such an object of display. I can vouch for her that she must have wanted to protest just like now but it is the male society to blame which must have crushed her desire to rise against it.


Her feminism is also very patriotic. She is afterall an Indian Feminist. . The televison coverage around her wedding, it being made a national affair because she is a heartthrob of the "males" in India was silently borne by her. She wanted to be the ambassador of Indo-Pak unity, otherwise she would have definately protested against it. 


Ofcourse many fools like me used to believe that the current humdrum around  feminism is more of an identity crisis, that too mostly by people who cant even understand it, an effort to make their presence felt in a world dominated by men, an order that has existed in 99% of the society, an effort to blow the remaining 1% out of proportion.  


But I am enlightened now , I am happy to be born an age when stalwarts of women freedom like Sania Mirza walked the earth in flesh and blood. 


I have to end the article here because I need to go and wash my face which is all sticky due to all the tears of happiness  that have flown down while writing this article.


:)