To those who challenge on FACEBOOK to name five females who died for LOVE

February, the month of love; you feel the color of love surrounding you. From the glasses of Shopping Malls to the walls of your heart, you see red, the symbol of love everywhere. They say this month gives you an opportunity to vox your feelings to the person you love if you are really waiting for a special moment to express. So this month gives birth to many relationships. And when we talk about any relationship what we feel is both the partners irrespective of their gender are equally important irrespective. They both share responsibilities to make their love successful.

Unfortunately, sometimes knowingly or unknowingly we happen to demean the value of others, especially the role of women. I found a message trending around the social media these days. It says;

"Romeo died for love, Valentine died for love, Jack of Titanic, Samson, Hercules, Achilles, and even Jesus died for love... Name at least five women who died for love, else boycott gifts to women this Valentine's day."

I don't have any issues whether you give gifts to your girl friends or your wives or any female friends but I really have my objection when you provide long lists of men who died for love and deny the fact that there aren't any women who died for that very love.  

Before I go any further let me list few names who died for 'LOVE' and yes, if you have put on few efforts just on googling the names, you too have found out easily. 

Well, since you mention Romeo in the beginning, we could start with Juliet. After Juliet finds Romeo dead, she too stabs herself and dies. (To those who only know Romeo dying, go through the complete drama please.)

If you are going for the fictional characters then the following are some of the list of female characters who died for love apart from Juliet. 

1. Ophelia from Hamlet

2. Muna from Muna Madan

3. Cho-Cho- San from Madame Butterfly

4. Du Liniang from The Peony Pavilion

5. Lily Potter from Harry Potter (though she died for the love of her son; by the way love isn't only is between the couples.)

Or, if you are willing to go back to the history, then here are some females all around the world who died for love and some are even termed as the symbol of love and kindness. 

1. Mother Teresa, a well known figure, who loved all the people of the world without any judgement. 

2. Mary Slessor, a Scottish missionary who died for the love of women and children of Nigeria.

3. Florence Nightingale, also popularly known as 'Lady with the Lamp' paved the way of modern nursing due to which you are being cared by thousands of nurses when you fall sick.

4. Helen Keller, another name of hope who being deafblind person campaigned and devoted her life for women's suffrage, labour right, socialism and many other causes. 

5. Elizabeth Fry, an English social reformer (popularly known as 'Angel of Prisons') devoted her life for poor, sick and prisoners. 

It is said that when there is love, there is life. So when you challenge women to die for love, remember that there are thousands of women dying each day when giving life to a child. According to World Health Organization, one woman die in every two minutes due to complications in delivery.

More than that there are several women who are dying every day for the love of their family members. Oh! if you are talking about the real death for the husband. Then I guess none of the man have sat in the pyre and burnt themselves for their wives like thousands of Hindu women who gave their life in the same way in the name of Sati. 

If you observe closely any female who are associated with your life; your mother, daughter, sister, wife, girl friend, you will know how many sacrifices she has made. 

The post may just be a fun challenge to women. But I take it as an act of stupidity of an arrogant man who is proud of  his 'phallus' or an ignorant teen age boy who still needs to learn more about the contribution of women in world history. If this is just for the intelligence test of a woman, the lists above have limitations as I have limited knowledge but instead of challenging on these issues please improve your intelligence questions. These answers can simply be retrieved from internet search engines. 

Lastly, here is a quote for you guys.

Thus, stop posting posts like the above one, full of ego, attitude and ignorance and share love with your beloved. By the way, she doesn't really needs your gifts, just treat her equal. Give her the respect, she deserves it.