ChaiBiscuit

The way that ideas are spread nowadays is not the problem, it’s the way they’re assimilated. So is this word, which follows you around like a trending hashtag, little bit of this here, little bit of that there. Yes, the word is “feminism”. I can almost see half of the crowd mouthing “Ugh, not again.”, and that is an exhibit of how unfortunately misinterpreted the whole idea behind the word is. It has been now included in the list of the most famous “isms” that people either debate about without concluding, or be indifferent about without introspecting.  Fact of the matter? Yes it deserves your attention now more than ever. I’m not going to start naming the things that women have been facing since time immemorial. We’re all very much aware of all that. And we’re the first ones to change channels when there’s a disturbing report about a rape, assault, or acid-attack case on the television, because we'd rather spent the day in indifference than in worry.  It...

Like many other unsolved mysteries in this world, one that leaves me the most exasperated, is why my generation, the “genX’ers”,the “millenials”,or however you may like to address them, feels entitled enough to be in complete denial that they are,in fact, not entitled at all. Now there are enough testimonies to the fact that not everyone in my generation is the same way, but enough of them are. Enough for creating an immensely fallacious reputation for ourselves. Enough for this issue becoming important to be addressed. Just enough, for our actions becoming important to be called out.  Let me add a little context to this.  Quarantine period called for schools as well as universities to resort to taking online classes on the ‘zoom’ app, fair enough. Now hey, let’s not pretend that any of us were taking those classes seriously, no matter how exciting it may have seemed initially. Anything which does not suit the likes of us, gets dissed by us. And so, crashing a frie...