|| Let HER be HERSELF ||

If we must celebrate a day for women let us celebrate freedom from stereotypes, from expectations from idolization, from sacrifice.

• Stop congratulating women for being the secret behind the successful man - start saluting them for being successful.
• Stop saying the mother is sacred for all the sacrifices she makes - try to reduce those sacrifices.
• Stop telling women they're beautiful - try telling them its not important to be beautiful.
• Stop praising her roles as mother, wife, daughter, sister.... Let's celebrate her as an individual, a person, independent of relationships.
• Stop justifying her necessity to multitask - give her a chance not to.
• Stop these multitasking which are aimed at making her strive for an impossible balance - Let her be inadequate & happie.
• Stop making her look at herself through a conveniently male viewpoint - let her be imperfect, whimsical, irresponsible, boorish, lazy, fierce, opinionated, loud, flabby, un-groomed, adventurous, unpredictable, unprepared, impractical.

LET HER BE "HERSELF."

this message is an email forward which I felt worth sharing.

Niranjan Putla.