Feminism or Bigger Social Issue

Nowadays, a trend topic is issues related to female gender. All seems to make people aware that there are lot of issues with female gender in India and this needs to be addressed.

Whenever I read about any feminism movement on a social networking site, it makes me think - Is it really an issue of this scale? Or we are missing a bigger picture?

[Let me be very clear: I am absolutely against any crime or harassment. Against any gender, race or cast.]

I did some research, and found this specific issue related to crime against woman in India is divided into two parts:

1. Generic - Animal instinct about male and female
2. Specific - Social clash between rapid grown group and not so rapid grown group

For first point, as an animal, male is generally more aggressive. Due to evolution, male got more strength and had to fight in one or the other case - food, shelter, protection against predator or a female. At the same time, evolution made female more creative, structured, organised and selective. So as a long story short, if there is any attack, for most of the cases, it would be from male and to a weaker opponent (male or female). This was true for any kind of fight too. Naturally entire female gender is generally weaker so they are at the receiving end. [This is still about animal instinct].

Human race evolved due to lack of the strength. But still we share more than 95% DNA with animal like apes. Male/Alpha instinct does not go away that easily. That shows even in a most developed countries people introduce their wife as "Meet my beautiful wife ...". You would not hear same about husbands in same intensity there.

So showing the alpha-ness is in the nature of a man. Fighting with that could lead to no result in a positive manner. Having said that, most developed countries are much better in terms of keeping both gender at equal level. So issues like in India is not there.

Now coming to second point, due to recent (last 10/15 years) of evolution in India due to IT and other areas, most of the Gen X/Y and millennial have come out (from their village/town/city) and started "enjoying" their life without anyone's restriction. Some also created open culture at house and things become easy to adjust. Internet has been a tool during this time. This started creating new social norms (like late night outing, disco/pub, fashion and openness). Unfortunately, this was restricted to very limited part of our country. Some hasn't seen a computer, where others are regularly downloading any movie from torrent/YouTube. 

Some forget that others coming from a backward village is not at all adjusted to this new culture (mostly in cities). This leads to all kind of social clashes - rash driving, gunda giri or impolite behavior, eve teasing, pushing even if there is a reserved seat, and many more. 

Some adjusted very fast doesn't mean others would also keep-up the pace. It would take some time and things will change. 

So let's not be selfish in such a way that we think only from one view and completely ignore the other one. If we can do it, it would make (if not others) our life easier.