Portrayal of Women in Movies And T.V.

We have entered the twenty first century. Gone on space missions. Done incredible things in science and advanced by leaps. But somehow our perception of women has not altered much. Note. I have said not altered much. I haven't said "not at all." Both our visual mediums- T.V and films- have now moved from portraying women from sobbing sari clad sati- savitris ( Meena Kumari era) to  radical shot- guzzling cigarette smoking emancipated feminists whose only claim to emancipation lies not in intellectual superiority to their male counterparts( Oh no! Females are almost never capable of out thinking or out maneuvering them) but in being free to compete in downing innumerable shots with men and hopping in and out of their beds. It is passe to be a virgin, to have any moral values. The image of heroines in films favored currently being sluttish. Equality then boils down to sexual, in some cases financial, but never intellectual emancipation. A woman is never shown to be intellectually equal, let alone superior to a male. Does that tell you something? It does to me. Being a woman I find it highly insulting. Why does a woman need a man to rescue her from every situation? I have no objection to the man in question supplying the muscles but the brains? Come on. History bears witness that some of the women rulers were the shrewdest. Elizabeth the bastard queen who maneuvered her way to the throne, Margaret Thatcher, our very own Indira Gandhi. So why is it we cannot show women more intelligently? Why when we do so we resort to revamped prototypes? No matter how much alcohol or wine they may drink, no matter how many cigarettes they smoke, what positions they occupy in the corporate world they cannot rid themselves of the tag of sexual objects. Out maneuvering is always depicted in sexual terms where the woman ensnares the man using sex, and blinds him to reason in a cloud of passion. It is never a case of sharp hard intellect fighting intellect. Never a case of brains outwitting brains. In TV the change is slower to happen. Women are shown to be sari clad and venturing into a brand new world but ...but with the man's support or the family's. Nothing wrong with that. Only nowhere is it shown that the man shares the household duties with his wife when she works outside to augment the family income. Again that should tell you something. It is still the woman's job to manage family home and a job. It is taken for granted that every woman is a superwoman who can and should multitask. Why? 

Divorce and remarriage of women are now no longer taboo on TV. Every middle class home now endorses the end of a bad relationship. But before real change begins we should change the way in which we perceive ourselves. Because once women begin to admit that we are not mere sexual objects then and only then things will change. 

I'd love to see a movie or TV serial in which a woman ousts a man because of her superior intellect. Not because she is a pretty face or has a great smile. Or can match the man in downing innumerable shots or announcing her sexual emancipation.