Living life with prejudices is seldom easy. Especially when you know they exist. Many people believe that city-people are better living beings than village-people. Or people in western countries are better than us.

And with that, thoughts also come up accusing women of being fools. The bad road habits of some of them or the look of disinterest in some of them when some serious discussion comes up, make up the relevant reasons supporting that thought. And any exception is well an exception, not a daily thing.

Been brought up in a family where my parents did not do any discrimination between me and my sister has been a major aspect in my life. Though being younger, many times I felt that she was favoured more than me, talk about reverse discrimination :)

But what about that now? Are women really not as strong, as intelligent, as "good" as men? I have met both dumb women and intelligent women in my life. To think of it, I have also met both dumb men and intelligent men in my life. So how about it? Well, whatever the answer might be, I surely should not care about it.

I should not care about it because I already have an answer. And that answer is, it does not matter. Why should I apply the scales to weigh men, to women also? What if the reverse happens? If women start weighing men on emotional stability and communication skills and ability to connect with people. That would be a real horror for all men, isn't it?

It's all a matter of expectations. Women are expected to act dumb, so many of them act dumb. Or when everyone says women are bad drivers, some might not even care to actually check whether they can be good drivers or not. They remain bad drivers. You keep telling someone, you can't drive properly, you can't drive properly, day and night, chances are that s/he will actually never learn how to drive properly.

So where does that lead me to? How am I supposed to behave? Unconsciously I know, nearly all men are MCPs. Their first reaction would be to blame the "woman-ness" of that person. So if I am in a group of men, and the subject comes up, what do I do? Do I start reinforcing their statements with cute little anecdotes or do I make the discussion serious, accusing them of their own prejudices?

Well I don't agree with both the ways. So I start giving cute little anecdotes about my own dumb acts followed by some of my boss's, just veering the topic off a bit. Then I move on to cute little anecdotes about the people in the group itself. Well, they can't fight with me on that since I already made fun of myself in the first place. The discussion takes a new turn, all the older things are lost, with everyone busy trying to save themselves from the banter, hopefully understanding that anyone can have a few dumb moments.

What else I can do? I am proud to know that I am also a MCP. Can't really hate myself for that. And after all, pride comes before a fall. So either I remove that pride or I fall. So, already working on removing the pride and MCP-ness in self and others. The fall will hurt more...

When I get married, will I beat my wife? I guess so but only in a game of badminton. I am hopeless in others :)