20 Mar

Chronicles of Gender Inequality (Poem)

The disdain surrounding stay-at-home fathers,
The refrain to improve professional spaces for working mothers,
The outright stigma around men with mental health issues,
How trite in a generation termed as advanced,
Gender inequality has been our guest for quite a while,
The way it runs in our blood is unattractively vile,
The buttered-up centuries-long male power dynamic over women,
The chuckles over the queerness of a woman not wanting to marry,
Marvels over a woman changing a car tyre,
As couples quarrel over fathers refusing to change diapers,
It is time to be vocal with the truth,
Throw it in a barrel only if you want to kill the youth,
Round-tabled discussions with half the panel as women is what we need,
A mother teaching her son to wash dishes is the only way to succeed,
A woman marrying for companionship without conformity to society's imposed meekness,
Men being able to express their emotions without a label of weakness,
What a world it would be if everyone could follow their passions,
Let the women and men be what they want to be
Accord the same respect to a woman electrician as you would a male engineer,
Call the woman doctor, a doctor and not a nurse,
Or at the very least correct someone who is stuck in reverse,
If everyone despite their gender was accepted the way they were,
Strengths, weaknesses and all
We would be able to fight this,
But the need to steer clear of stereotypes is a crucial first step
Embracing new heights is the new way to prep,
For the world is round after all,
What would be if we didn’t follow its form?