I have a protest to lodge, just not clear whom should I approach. We have all kind of special days - mother's, father's, grandparents', daughter's, friends... But we completely missed out son's day. There is no special day to celebrate sons.
Aren't they special? Or are we so much into daughter appeasement that we don't want to acknowledge being happy about having sons. Somehow, all the posts that we see on social media is about how special a daughter is, that sons have taken an exit from being even appreciated. I am daughter myself, at times I feel bad about my brother., because if you go by these posts, you feel only daughters care about parents, sons are pathetic souls having no emotions. So what if both are raised by same set of parents with same values. Something isn't right with this mindset, atleast not for me.
By the way, daughter appeasement means we dealt with female child as secondary and now to overcome the centuries worth of guilt, we have started the trend of appreciating the girl child to an extend of feeling guilt if we express happiness of being mother of a boy child. I mean a child is a child and a mother's love is simply natural. So why is appreciating a girl child a trend and socially acceptable behaviour and celebrating a male child a sign of backwardness and looked down upon.
I am mother of two, sons and love them to moon and back. To hell with any norm that makes me feel guilty of being a proud and happy mother of wonderful kids.
P. S - I don't have high regards for any such days, coz relations are a part of everyday life and need to be celebrated everyday. It's just that this is also a bias.
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