Boys will be boys

A few days back I was in a college fest with my best friend (and he is a guy like most of my other friends) it was noisy all around us with hundreds of exited college students, most of them girls, waiting for their favourite star to come.

This guy I was with spotted a girl in crowd, she was wearing a short dress and said “wow” with lascivious hunger.

Hearing a sudden wow I asked what’s so amazing.

“Look over there that in that short dress she is amazing” he said, eyes rolling back in mesmerisation.

“Why?” I asked now angered.

“Because she is wearing a short dress and she is looking super hawwwwwwt” he answered honestly.

“I think she forgot to wear pants.” I joked.

Suddenly irritated he countered back “you are an idiot. You behave like a man and really don’t have any fashion sense.”

“Oh really?” this guy had audacity to say these words and behave like it was fine, “look at the girls, over there” I pointed towards a few girls wearing kurta, “what do you think of them?”

“Nah they’re boring, you know aunty types”

“Whaaaaaat? Why?” I was glaring daggers on him.

“Because girls wear short dresses only attract men towards them”, he answered, a bit scared now.

First I slapped him hard on back of his and then asked “what if your wife or girlfriend wore such kind of clothes and somebody commented on her like you did, then, what you will do?

“I won’t let her wear such kind of clothes and go out” he answered flatly.

Flabbergasted. I came back and replayed that conversation again and again and again. What are we doing? If this was the condition of our boys then what could expected in future?

We teach our girls to remain virgin till the time of marriage. We tell our boys to marry a pure girl. We tell our boys to be the man of the house, but always forget to tell how. We never teach a man that she should keep himself pure. False belief of men being superior to women has ruined innumerable lives. Boys nowadays want a sexually experienced girlfriend, but when it comes to wife, they’re scared to disappoint their ancestors. If this is the case then I suggest they should lock themselves in a room and not even try to look at girls, till the time they get married. Only the girls should not be bound to follow customs.

The society is changing, gradually but still changing (or I believe this). There are a few headstrong men and women playing their role to make society better, now it’s time that we should too.

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