The Critical Eye (Season 1) Episode 7 “I” Am A WOMAN, And “I” Earn, SO???? WhatEVER...............

The Critical Eye (Season 1) Episode 7

“I” Am A WOMAN, And “I” Earn, SO???? WhatEVER...............

Discombobulated is not the feeling that I want my readers to have at the beginning of this episode of “The Critical Eye” but such is the irony of our society my friends. This topic and title are in conjunction to how the society views, accepts, respects, acknowledges and appreciates the money that is earned by women at large.

To bring out the distinction between the women from different walks of life and divergent strata’s of society, I hereby announce the underlying categories. Heheheh.....ok! I know I sound like a pastor or a judge because of saying the above, but it’s just to lighten up the senses as I thought the heavy matter robbed the smile. J Coming back to the point I was trying to make, I mean trying to type was this:-

1.       Women Of The ELITE Group

2.    Women Of The HIGHER MIDDLE Class Group

3.    Women Of The MIDDLE Class Group

4.    Women Of The LOWER MIDDLE Class Group or The Proletariats.

5.    Women Of The DESTITUTE Group.

Let’s vivisect the groups because yes my darlings, this is what our smart-alecky society does to the very existence of WOMEN in general let alone their income.

Women Of The Elite Group

Women Of The ELITE Group Or Glitterati

As I say the very word elite something like Richie Rich appears before my eyes. Oodles of MOOLAH!! Ah-Ha! ....Women who work, in this particular section of the social order are either –

n Heirs of fortune OR

n Heirs of fortune.

Very rarely you will find someone starting from scratch because, WHY DO I NEED TO START FROM SCRATCH? Well this is a legitimate question because if I have the privileges why not make use of it. Because of the cushy nature of the entire deal the money made is to enhance the riches’ already bestowed on them or maintaining themselves and yes of course being self sufficient. Here the society has a very limited role or should I say, it knows its limit. Not too detailed of a pathological report is what one gets when it comes to the scrutiny of RICH WOMEN EARNING. 

Money On The Lips

 Money slaps a finger on your lips, on everybody’s mouth. However I cannot ignore the fact that there are people in that rich zone too, whose mind set still screams the antediluvian mentality. I will elaborate this point more in the middle class group so make sure you READ ME, till the end.

Women Of The HIGHER MIDDLE Class Group

Higher Middle Class Women

This is a hybrid between the elite and the middle class group where the money sings its own lyrics but is also overpowered by the tunes of the obsolete mind sets people had in yesteryears. Women are kinda allowed to do when it comes to earning their own money but they cannot step out of the shadow of the men in their lives, because hey! Your existence is because of these men. Which is SO FUNNY because I always thought that men’s existence is because of women, BIOLOGY anyone? 

Recreation

Women are sanctioned to do their HEARTS CONTENT as in recreational activity of being all, and looking all independent yet the halter remains with the HEADS OF THE FAMILY. SO basically they are earning if they are, for some pocket money. WOW!

Women Of The MIDDLE Class Group

Middle Class Women

This group among all is “THEE” most SCANDALOUS and PARADOXICAL among all. All the ego’s and all the brawn and all the tongues together they beat the drum.

Society

 The drum of our so called perfect moral bound society.  I use to think that are lives are finite and souls infinite but in these dark dungeons the lives begin and end with “WHAT THE SOCIETY SAYS?” Your “society says” will include ME babbling, and for me the “society says” comprises of you twaddling. ALWAYS THERE TO SCREW EACH OTHERS LIVES J 

Paradoxical Society

First of all, the girls weren’t educated much leaving them with no option but to take the “TIME-PASS” jobs in the outside world. That’s what the society says. Like receptionist, secretary, front desk, teacher, salon services, HR etcetera. But off lately this section of the society has seen THE REALIZATION REVOLUTION,(Like green revolution J) which is more opportunities to girls, more degrees, more options when it comes to studying and working. I kinda like it but I guess the CONSCIOUSNESS could only penetrate in the NEAT crevices of the already fractured mentality and remains huddled out of the fear of “WHAT SOCIETY SAYS.”

Society Norms

So, no matter how bigger the degree or higher the marks or greater the achievements, practically none could change the so archaic mindset. A woman is approved of the freedom to study more and get a job but it comes with a dominant clause, i.e. once you get married the authoritative figure who holds your bridle will change and they will decide for you if you become any of these:-

BRIDE SERVANT

n Study...Job...Quit...Become BRIDE SERVANT(In short useless, not allowed to work after marriage. Women in our house, don’t work, even the most inept men have the right to work out but NOT THE WOMEN. “What will the society say, we are living off our daughter in laws money, What The Heck” . Ask some intelligent people and they will tell you the reality, WTF.) J I would also like to include the fathers not just the father-in-laws who think and act on same lines, by either not letting the girl do a job or even if she does, making her hard earned money sound like earned for free and not for family usage as to them it’s like an ADULTERATED VERSION of what they had earned in the past. So corrupted money is not theirs to take.

Salary Donator

n Study...Job...Become SALARY DONATOR (You earn and work your ass off, but at the end of the month, the salary is at the disposal of your husband or in laws who will use it for paying their loans off or to amplify their LOCKER MONEY.)I have such an apposite exemplar to state in this regard which ofcourse comes from my huge family, momi side ..pop side...all side...too many relatives to handle...heheh....

Ok....my aunt’s daughter who was marriagble age many many years ago because now she is in her fifties and groom hunting began when she was all of 23, so you can for yourself decide that not only now but THEN too people had almost the same wicked mentality as now, with just a few new up gradations tho. My aunt went to see a prospective groom for her daughter and things were looking pretty good so the guys dad goes in to enquire about my cousin to her school where she taught. Now here’s what you should listen the most. Since the groom search was still on and things were not yet finalized so a clear yes was still far from the horizon. The month following the groom’s dad making enquiry at my cousin’s school, her salary was not credited to her bank account. When she checked in with the accounts department she was informed that her father-in-law had instructed them to credit the salary directly to another account which was their son’s bank account from which the instalment of the loan of their house was deducted monthly.

At his discretion. 

Too fast forward for that time zone, I must say. But what I am trying to pin point here is the fact that at a stage where things were not yet materialized yet the would be father-in-law took the liberty of taking my cousins finances into his own hands and reimbursing them at his discretion. WOW...superWOW!!! So, one could really imagine or rather get the picture of how things would have been if my cousin married this guy. 

Morals & Ethics

The middle class strata is such that its morals and ethics and moral policing grounds all change radically on the wishes of the dominant parties at stake which are usually the guy and his family or the father in family. If the dough is as huge as the disco ball, no egos, no societal norm gets in the way of the glitzy shinny coins but if the money is meagre the entire society jumps in with their decisions.(Like, is their say or decisions really should matter?) However, there are some classic cases of FOOLS who disrupt the peace, respect for the money earned by a woman only to satiate that useless, crappy sense of self of theirs. So even when they really need the moolah, the man in the family has to feel humiliated by WHO? Honestly its themselves and not any other. They will leave no stones unturned to restrict the women and deprive her of something that she rightfully stands for. The elite group also acts foolhardy in analogous situations on related lines. The difference being only the amount of the wealth.

Society Sadist

There are some innovative idiots popularly called the SADISTS who have devised yet another way to crumble a woman’s will to go out and earn. They will not retaliate openly, to them its fine if you work and earn but on the other hand they will create so many stumbling blocks at every step that the cycle of FALLING, GETTING UP, WALKING FORWARD never ends rather cracks up the energy and then the will of a woman to an extent that she herself decides to call it quits.  You can do whatever you want but yes, make sure of all the household chores, taking care of my parents, raising kids, socialising with my relatives, entertaining me and being a good f**k in the bed with no consideration for the woman’s health and relaxation is the only thing I ask for. Yes, women have more strength, more patience, more calibre or more will but PEOPLE....her energy and time are limited and exhaustive as yours, maybe a little more than yours but they are. She cannot keep acting like a juggler all the time. She has a life to live not a circus show to perform that runs 24x7.  Women who work are only appreciated when they run a lot of things together. Work, house, kids, two set of parents, two set of relatives, a husband etc. But at the same time a man is appreciated or rather crowned as the head of the family when he earns. Let me ask all of you, like what is so special about a man earning that he earns the title of the head of the family without a single SWEAT. Whereas no amount of BRAIN, BRAWN, BEAUTY, WORK, RESPONSIBILTY with no authority, a woman is denied of the same. Usually when a man of the house is DEAD that’s when out of sheer helplessness she becomes the head of the family.

Why Not?

WHY CAN’T SHE CO-OWN THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY STATUS WITH THE MAN WHEN HE IS ALIVE AND BOTH ARE WORKING????????????

Women Of The LOWER MIDDLE Class Group

Difference Dissolves

Here the gender differentiation dissolves. The number of mouths to be fed are way more than the number of hands working. The bread winner of the family is the family in toto. 

Less Earnings

Either the earnings of one person is so measly that everyone has to work in order to stay alive or the family is colossal for one to feed. In this section whether men work or they don’t still a woman’s EARN is not respected the way it should be. So some would ACKNOWLEDGE not respect it because if they don’t they would be dead in its paucity or to enjoy what has been earned.(Especially among drunkards who use it to stay stoned forever.)

Women Of The DESTITUTE Group.

POOR

Welcome to the ALL BEGGING ZONE. Everyone that is a part of this section of the society either lives below poverty line or begs instead of earning. Technically begging is also a way of earning. But when the money earned by women in the upper classes is not accounted for when it comes to respect and love, then here I hardly hope for any. But the funniest part is, that here it is. Women and children are accounted for, acknowledged for, for the big money they make by begging but yeah! RESPECT......begging itself cremates the spirit of RESPECTING THE MOOLAH EARNED.

Respect Womens' Earning

So be it any strata, anywhere, anyhow the condition and the outlook of the populace remains unaltered. Very sad because out there are so many amazing people who are trying really hard to undo this EVIL but seems like the evil is multi talented and undying. 

HOPE!!!!

Having said that, I still do have a beautiful reflection of the HOPE that RIGHT will shine and WRONG evaporate into some alternate dimension, never to come back again here. J

PRECAP: Episode 8 Taste buds in hell!!!

Excerpts:- Twist on Traditional Food Recipes may be in, but what is your take on it? This episode will steam out the real deal behind THESE TWISTS….So build up your appetite as I am all set to serve you a massive meal.