Character labels

Labeling someone as per their 'character', that's the favorite topic of most people. It gives them a different level of kick to judge others and pass their opinion based on their own narrow mind-frame. They do not consider any other variables other than their own biases. They have certain labels, boxes and categories, and every person is typecasted as per their definition of 'character', especially women. 

Here are some samples. 

Characterless: This is a gender specific characterisation - used for defining a woman with evidently 'loose' moral. If she drinks, smokes, parties, comes back home late and has friends who are boys who frequent her home, she is definitely characterless. She, unlike a man, cannot have an independent life and the freedom to live on her own terms. She is the epitome of 'loose woman'.

The Other Woman: Strangely, no one says the other man. It is always that evil other woman who is the home-breaker, who somehow manages to entrap a man with 'black magic'. The man, as always, is an innocent party, someone who got hoodwinked into a wrong relationship, and is welcomed back by his family the moment he apologies for his behavior, which mind you, was not based on his own doing, but because of that Other Woman. Society dissects her, never giving her the respite that there was another person in the relationship too. The man, is spared, not the woman.

Bitch: This one is the most casual sexist comment one gets to hear almost on a daily basis. "She is a bitch" if she is a tough boss, a strict mother, an assertive wife, an economically independent single woman, and many more. Any woman with slightest of confidence and a flair of independence is a bitch for the society! Oh! And, she is called a bitch equally by men and women.

While, women get society's burnt the most, men are also not spared from generic patriarchy. They are also labeled as - Sissy Boy, Effeminate, Henpecked Husband, so on and so forth. 

What we need is not a society that promotes labels, but one that is compassionate and kind, one that is open enough to let people be who they truly are - people!