Entry No. 2 in D Minor, Opus #1

In this second entry, I attempt to reflect my understanding by trying to connect the dots of relevance where applicable. Flirting with the idea that men and women differ from each other not just on physical basis, but also the linguistic capacity of the two, makes it clear that we are indeed separated by idiosyncratic functions especially dedicated to perform various tasks in life. Generally assuming that women possessed a superior array of vocabularies is nevertheless inches away from the truth. Before this we already come under ballistic assault from many an academician, men or women matters not, that females are inclined to use richer spectrum of words to describe colours and emotions. The embodiment of this analogy can be found in any particular poem whose words flow steadily like a cold, mesmerising stream deep in a forest of stars.

As with the case in our country, this largely depends on how well educated a person is and what kind of family background does he or she come from. Yet, these two elements are too delicate, able to shift its once immobile ceiling with everything but persistent efforts to learn at educational institutions. Although some might argue that even the most underprivileged that happened to not attend any hours long academic brain work can outperform those degree holders with their lifelong experience. The emphasis is somewhat frustrating, that one has to have exceptional linguistic skills as a prerequisite to become a formidable social animal. Allow this word to be used here, for grim are the truths that hide behind the fading light, we are animal to some extent. We have been nurtured to believe that women and men should act in a certain way, thanks to the ceaseless efforts exercised by mass media and cutthroat corporate giants around the world. Women are expected to be all soft in their manners, which in fact has been perpetuated by subconsciously submersing misogynistic anchors at the back of our minds. We are then used to such ideal images, or worst, the invocation of bestial lust within men that the opposite sex should bow down before their every need and want. However, reality is somewhat non conformist; women are of course louder than us double Y and this is somewhat frowned upon by most conservative masses who have consumed the habitual diet of imposing servitude and desecration towards female. Decades of aggression seem to suggest that men triumphed over women by working at some of the challenging, most dangerous places on Earth. The glass ceilings have always stand before women and the firmament above, where men can gaze a hole through them without having to face severe feedbacks from the society. Why does this happen? In a world ridden with insatiable avarice, people in power (whether you disagree; most are men) have apotheosised such an issue before the altars of politics. We then worshipped these gods and goddesses created from our image whose idealisation expends our cognitive resources to the point of exhaustion that, we refused to disassemble the foundations without having to change our mindset.

Now we come to realise that language itself reflects not our behaviour to a greater extent vice versa. In minute concentration, this notion can somehow prove the theoretical assumption in which women seem to be the pivotal perspective when it comes to discuss language and gender. Like previously mentioned, it all comes down to expectation from the society in which we lived in. Malay women, more so of Muslim faith, are bound to behave modestly, to be chaste before marriage and to devote themselves only to their husband and children. It goes without saying that our women are, without sounding overly chauvinistic (not that I have such an intention whatsoever), the walking invitation to carnal sins. This is the fact that has many non Muslim scholars brewing with agitation, pointing out to women’s apparent subordination in Islam in which they believed to have contradicted with the idea that Islam upholds the status of women unlike any other beliefs that come before and after the deluge of poly – cosmic theism that inundates the landscape of contemporary human faith. What does this have to do with language and gender? Again, the relevance is that we need to hover above the confusion to actually see the common element that connects the dots to many stellar theories; that women are created different from men but the two need to communicate properly in order to survive.