Sharon Eappen

      When I first wanted to write about this, I hesitated, because of the inescapable judgment and gaze that would follow me for addressing such a topic, as this would easily pass off as immoral or as sexually desperate if one only gave it a glance. The lack of understanding and the lack of knowledge thereof has led to heavy misunderstandings on the addressing of social issues such as gender segregation, gender bias or gender roles. The most common misunderstanding would be that when one refers to gender issues, people usually mistake it as a synonym for women’s issues or sometimes include even issues of those pertaining to the transgenders and the non binary genders, sometimes maybe even to men whose sexual identity is homosexual. But somehow, the male community who identify as heterosexuals are excluded and so addressing sexism seems like a war where the two genders are always throwing examples of their own gender group being discriminated. Sometimes, it wil...