#voicethisout

Hi Anu Akka,
I am a working woman and have one year old son. My husband also working so my in-laws are with us and taking care of the kid. My MIL every time says that “girl children are stupid and useless, I don’t like them, they all are dumb”.

I really felt bad when listening to these words regarding girls. Being a girl, I used to cry a lot when she is scolding girl children and praising the boy children. She always shows discrimination between girls and boys.

In her mind, girls are useless and boys are great. She very often used to say we did a lot of pooja so we had a grandson. Always says a girl child is nothing.

In their mind, a girl child will be born to parents only if any sin happens. How foolish is this? I literally felt like slapping her face sometimes. To think, she needed a girl to marry her son and do household chores, earn and support her family but still, girls are bad. My MIL is a well-educated and retired teacher as well but the way she speaks badly about girls makes me feel so angry and it hurts.

I would like to shout and tell that girls are no lesser than boys in this world and in my opinion people who are thinking girls are bad and less than boys are mentally disabled.

Please voice this out.

Thanks,
Deepa.