Fifty Shades Of Feminism

Amidst the uproar of feminism in India and worldwide, stands a university. A university that functions quite opposite to most of the world, especially when it comes to treating women. While the other minority institutions are fiercely orthodox towards the liberty of women, Jamia Millia Islamia begs to differ. With the girls' hostel curfew timings extending to 10:30 pm from the conservative 7:30 pm, Jamia has set new boundaries for itself.
But, is that all? Is this the happy ending we all had been wishing for? As far as I have noticed, boys often face inequity under the pretext of feminism. Don't get me wrong, I am a feminist myself and strongly believe in its actual meaning: "Equal rights for all, irrespective of their gender". But isn't this motto applicable for everyone? Even the boys facing discrimination?
We have innumerable instances, which we happily choose to ignore. Need anything from the hygienic cafe quick and fast? Get a gal pal!
To quote a fellow engineering student,"Jamia me to ladkiyan devi hoti hain, kuch bhi ho unhi ki side li jaegi!".

It seems now, that boys are on the "abla" side in Jamia. During an event in the B.tech department, a girl exclaimed," Jamia Millia Islamia can be renamed as Janani Millia Islamia, yahan sirf ladkiyon ki chalti hai. Maana we dont deserve it, but we have it".
Of course there are exceptions. There are people(read boys) in the university and outside it, who feel being a woman means to stay huddled amongnst their own gender, that women don't have a right to speak their mind, that boys are too "manly" to do jobs like decoration as girls are deemed to do such stuff, that women have to behave in a certain way and if you don't you're not womanly enough.
But because of these few people, all the boys are facing unfairness, not to mention the captious looks by the girls.
A few weeks ago, while I was sitting at Maggie point(where maggie is never availabe) with my friends, I noticed one of the guards shouting at a guy. His sin? Sitting with his girl friends near the girls' hostel. Apparently, the girls in the hostel felt unsafe with boys sitting outside their hostel.Even if the boys are sitting with their friends and girlfriends. Even if the boys are not even looking at them. Even if it's late at night and the girls are not even clearly visible. All of us need to understand this, girls are not always victims and boys are not always culprits.

As a girl, I often enjoy these surprisingly one-sided treatments towards my  gender, but to think of it, it's about time we put a halt to this tendentiousness. A wise person once said, "Too much of anything is bad". We are feminists and all we ask for is equal opportunities and responsibilities.