Can't do without you, Men!

They love to love us. But they love to hate us more. They can do without us. But they can’t do without us even more. We drive them up the wall. But we send lovely shivers down their spine. We make the walls seem like better companions. But we act as their walls against all the world’s troubles. That’s the man for women. So simple, and yet the biggest complication in every woman’s life. Every lady worth her salt, would, at least once in her life, have wished for a world without men. But, on hindsight, they beg to differ.  

There are several reasons every woman lists for wanting ‘life’s biggest catastrophe (a.k.a a man) in her life. The women might be child-bearing machines, like Hitler once famously suggested, but without men, won't the machines just gather dust? But, not anymore! Scientists have recently used embryonic stem cells to make synthetic sperm and suggest that at some vague point, women will be able to breed without men. “Well, that does seem like a good option,” muses an undecided Avantika Raj, management consultant, “But, what’s life without a little (or a lot of) action? But jokes apart, men are an extremely evolved race. And at the risk of sounding anti-feminist, I shudder to think of a world ruled by only women leaders. It would be cat-fight chaos!”

 

Agreeing with her is star-wife Vandana Srikanth. She says, “Life would be the opposite of bliss without men. A girl must always have a man in her life — be it her father, husband, son, friend or brother. However much we may argue, we need men to protect us against the odds we face.”

But, it’s not only for the protection that women need the Y chromosome. “The element of XY is required to maintain the balance. Men are like museum specimens — you can learn a lot from them, and even more from their mistakes!” chuckles Dr Priya Selvaraj, “You learn that you need not be intelligent to be strong! And as much as I believe in the power of the woman, I love men, for functioning without them, would be like working without an arm and a leg.”

 

Next up, whoever said girls’ nights out were all about the girls? If anything, it is anything but about them. Whether it is discussing her boyfriend’s annoying toilet habits or her neighbour’s cuter-than-thou dimple, ‘man’ is the keyword. Model Sneha Shekar agrees, “As much as we hate admitting it, even on a girls’ night out, we end up discussing men. On a night out with my chicas, we do tend to ogle and discuss in detail, the entity that is the man. That’s the prerequisite of any ladies’ night. And after all the woe-pouring, at the end of the night, we come to the conclusion that we cannot do without ’em.” Actress Vega, who just recently flew down from the US, found that men were the perfect pastime too! “I, along with my friend, scanned the entire flight for good-looking men, to keep us occupied throughout the long journey,” she chirps.

However, it is musician, Bushra Husain who sums it up best. She says, “In a world without men, I believe that music would be nonsense. A concert would become like a science lecture and lyrics would become like numbers. Romantic songs and duets would become obsolete. What would we sing about? Changing diapers, maid servant angst and shopping? Men are the music in women’s lives. And together, they rock the world.”

from the indiatimes network.