Tuesday 22 May, 2007

Dress Code for Women !!!!!

"These women who appear in public like decadent models endanger the security and dignity of young men"

" Men see models in the streets and ignore their own wives at home. This weakens the pillars of family"

- Reasonings from top Govt officials in Tehran, so as to dissuade women from taking on to fashionable clothes other than the 'Burqua'.

Well I was wondering how it would be If I were asked to stick to such rules. I can't even take it when I had to follow a dress code in my previous organisation.

One of the common denominators of all these rules of conduct and attire associated with societies, communities or religion is that they have been conceived by the 'Male Mind'.
View of the unknown have more or less been the Male Mind's usage of hyperboles to articulate his deep rooted fantasies or desires.

Take for example, "Heaven" - a place where there is no pain, you get what you want, lotsa food, and women dancing around .There are many more instances. This just brings about the fact that there was a dearth of women artists, philosophers around the age in history when religion or socioeconomic orders were taking shape.

Of late, with women slowly making a constant effort or rather struggle to play an active and effective role in carrying out and conceptualising theories and execution for the social order, I believe, the socioeconomic fabric is on the cusp of transition.

1 comment:

Hitchhiker said...

:) ... Loved the basis of comparison..the dress code in Infy.... it just made the whole thing very real.
And I agree, there was a serious dearth of women philosophers (though there were a few like Simone De Beavoir and so on but they were far and few). The situation is only getting better :) and that makes me happy!