Why is having a man be-all and end-all for a woman?

Leah

Aug 8

We are living in a society that has already built castles on behalf of the life of a woman and when she does not scale to these prescribed rites of passage at the appointed time, the so-called torch bearers start to do what they do best. There is this rite that society has made it seem that every woman should have to go through it or else there is something amiss about her especially when she attains a certain age.

If it does not happen, a woman will constantly have to deal with constant questions as to why there is no man in sight and several times, have to be reminded that her biological clock is ticking. This has led most women into dealing with mental illnesses while some have succumbed to the pressure of the society and ended up making bad decisions.

Getting married as a woman, especially in my country, it's taken as success and girls are growing up and equating being single with failure or a personality problem. This sickening mentality is what has led to women rushing into unhappy marriages just to please the masses. Parents are rushing their daughters to get kids because they want to be grandchildren which is quite sad. Its time, the society realizes that we are no longer in the 19^th century whereby marriage and having children was the sole existence of a woman.

We are in the modern era, whereby women want to live life on their own terms and excelling in their careers supersedes the desire of getting into marriage and having children. The society should accommodate this and realize the sole existence of a woman is much more than getting married.