It was high noon in Kendari, Sulawesi. A bunch of people are waiting for customers to hire their motorcycles, there by a shady corner in the heat of the day. Some others are working hard in building a shopping centre: carrying bricks, sacks of cement & buckets full of gravel.
The amazing thing was: the motorbikers were men, while the builders were women!
Talking about emancipation!
It is true that nowadays women are striving to gain the same right in earning a living as much as the men. But if THIS is the sort of occupation some women are undergoing in order to be considered equal to men, won't you say emancipation has stepped way out of the line?
Who's taking care of the kids?
Who's running the household?
I am not personally against feminism, but we all need to put all things in their proper places, in proper manners, and in the proper perspective. Even emancipation!
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