Why Should We Support A Woman's Right To Choose And Make Life Better For Her

Do men never support a woman's right to choose, and they feel entitled to control a woman's choices and life? So when some women become stubborn and exercise their right to choose, they complain about women for not choosing them or letting them take control of their lives. They shame them for being haughty, rude and unsanskari. But dear men, if you disapprove of women's right to choose, you don't have the right to expect them to choose you. Shouldn't it be so?

Women's right to choose is rarely advocated. A woman is rarely allowed to make choices and decisions in her life. Her life revolves around caregiving duties towards elders and kids. Men in her life get to decide the terms and conditions of her life. But when a woman becomes stubborn in exercising her right to choose, she is labelled as a difficult woman. Especially men cannot stand women who take the rein of their lives into their own hands. They feel insecure about not being able to control them. Men don't understand that women have the right to choose and keep chasing them until men reach a limit where their male ego gets affected. Women then become susceptible to harassment.

But why don't men understand a woman's right to choose? Why don't they value their choices? Why do they feel entitled to enforce themselves on women? Why can't men support women's right to choose?

When women often make choices in life, men disagree, even if it is the best decision. They feel it is their right and duty to make decisions for women and that women are not mature enough or free enough to make their own choices. This is why parents never teach their daughters to make decisions, and they always take the reins of their lives into their own hands so that women become used to the fact that someone else will always make decisions for them. Even in &t=6s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">marriages, women are not free to choose. Sometimes, they can't select the groom. They can't decide where they want to live post-marriage, they can't choose whether they can work or not and they can't choose whether she must conceive a child.

But now the tables are turning. Women have started asking about decisions in their life. Be it about their career, marriage or motherhood. A woman holds the freedom to choose what she wants. And people who don't support her right to choose are kept at the margins of social circles because they become toxic in women's lives. For example, women have started rejecting proposals fearlessly, speaking against men who commit domestic violence, and not settling down for any man who thinks it is their right to boss over women.

And honestly, supporting a person's right to choose is a basic respect one can pay others. You can't just choose the flavour of ice cream for a stranger. A stranger has the right to choose what they want to have, and no one can enforce anything on them. Similarly, people who do not support a woman's right to choose disrespect their individuality and have no right to be a part of their lives. Just like no one has the right to stop men from doing what they want, no one should enforce anything on women too. Men never are with women who do not respect their choices or go against them, then why should women? It is basic humanity to respect other person's choices.

So dear men, if you want to be a part of women's life, learn to respect their choices. Otherwise, stop complaining of women don't choose you. You are not a king or a particular person in the world that every woman must fall for blindly, and you are another person who disrespects women by undermining their right to choose. And no one accepts such toxicity in their lives, not even women.

Views expressed are the author's own.