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Hello Allrounder Ladies and my dear friends ..
Wish you all a great women' s day!!!

I received this poem in a mail-chain celebrating woman' s day. Couldnt stop posting!
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THE PROMISE
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“Oh! So you don’t have a brother?”
“Yes” , smiles little girl
“we are just 5 sisters
And I m the youngest angel.”

“They all are equal
Be it men or women”
“They should be treated same”
The school teaches her time and again

But her folks tell a different story
She hears “The male is better”
But she believes in her school lesson
For she does know what’s coming later.

“Wow she has brains”
That’s the Granny’s letter
“She is Dynamic and brave
Should have been a boy, better.”

With a frown above the eyes
She looks at her mother
Who barely gives a smile
And packs lunch for the father.

Then she starts her new life
Happy, for the partner she found
Happy, she has a great career
Her dreams know no bound.

She loves to cook for him
Loves to set the house
He likes cook her breakfast
And happy for his trendy spouse.

Arrives the double good news
One is the baby girl
The other is her promotion
She is happiest in the world!

Father crazy for his baby
He hates maid and daycare
Can’t ask her to quit her job
So calls in for his mother.

Now start her three shifts
Home baby and the office
However she tries to please her MIL
But just doesn’t seem to suffice

Says “I can’t feed the baby
I won’t cook the food
I won’t even make my snacks
For it’s the DIL who should”

“I won’t do the grocery
I won’t answer the door
Make your maid do all the stuff
I will only monitor”

With the project date so near
And house-chores so many
Now the baby falls sick
The Man doesn’t care a penny

The next morning comes
And all wait for Tea
She asks him for help
“Hey, that’s not my job, u see.”

His Uncle’s folks visit that weekend
To maid she gives the baby
All share a laugh sitting on the couches
As she serves them snacks and tea

“When God made us equal
This treatment is not fare
When I can make money just like him
Why can’t he make the dinner?”

Days and months pass with that
She struggles with all her might
“Am I going wrong somewhere,
“Or was my Granny right?”

“ But my daughter will have her share of life
I’ll teach her to deny and dare”
She picks the baby and holds her close
“And that’s my promise to you, my dear”

She tells her promise to her mother back home
“Mom, it’s time we changed things to new”
Her mother barely smiles and says
“That was also the promise I had made to you.” sum1 replied. this poem is absolutely degrading and non-motivation, plus its so pessimistic.
First of all, its right men and women do have dissimilarities, but we let it come in the way, and thats why we face discrimination.
If you noticed, in the poem, the MIL disses the DIL, and not the son. If the MIL did some work herself, or urged her son to help her DIL, her DIL would be better off. Not only does her MIL refuse to help, but also raised her son to be such a arrogant man.
If we women need to become one with a man, status wise, we have to stop dissing our fellow women. Because believe it or not, men dont oppress us as much as fellow women do. Once you take it in your hands to be non-opressed by men or women, no one can stop you. So Happy Women' s Day everyone, and remember if you want to bring about Generation W , then bring about a change in your own attitude and thinking and then only Men' s attitude and thinking will change. Tony S replied. Thanks Saheli for the mesg. It was a lovely mail - set me thinking. Granny was right after all. We cannot have a one to one equality with men. There are some dissimilarities in both. God has made it that way - u know he is also a male !!!!! anyway, i was wondering where u were all these days. Felt happy that u r around. see my posting in working mother section titled tribute - it goes out to u too. Three cheers to all the women on woman' s day - in fact i consider every day to be a woman' s day !!