The United States constitution was amended in 1920 to allow women their right to vote. The so-called world’s oldest democracy, was actually a 50% democracy till 1920, providing only half of its adult population their basic political right to elect their own leader.
Britain had done it two years earlier, in 1918. France followed much later in 1944.
These little facts are only a gentle reminder that historically man has regarded woman as nothing more than a sex object that also reproduces.
In view of this bitter truth, it seems pointless to remain in a denial mode like an Ostrich, and insist upon Sita’s emanicipated status in Ram’s Rajya.
Two thousand and five hundred years ago, Socrates concluded that women are “the weaker sex.” Was he right in his conclusion? Perhaps, the devastating answer is, yes.
Perhaps, women by nature are different from men. They are much more forgiving and much less vengeful and violent. If Ram was not man enough to accept Sita, then Sita should have been woman enough to reject Ram. She was an emotional fool to give him a second chance, and of course, he failed her the second time too. Man will be a man.
Ideally, considering what Ram did to Sita, she should have raised an army in the jungles, and directed her two powerful sons to launch an attack on Ayodhya and imprison Ram and seize control over his kingdom by force. That would have been a logical response, and would have altered the destiny of woman forever.
Instead, despite being born of royal blood, Sita chose to live a secluded life away from civilization, and eventually committed suicide. The ultimate weakness of the spirit is killing your own self, instead of killing your enemy. It is violence in inverse. It is an act against nature. It is an act of such low morale and low self-esteem that your basic instinct of self-preservation itself gets destroyed.
That is why, perhaps, Socrates was right when he said that women are weak by nature. Almost like a cow that is such a strong and muscularly endowed animal, but so docile by nature that it meekly suffers her cruel milking by humans, instead of fighting back like other wild animals.
One must understand that in a competitive civilization, there is no room for sentiments. The winner takes all. But women are, by and large, misfits to this rule, as they are more emotional and less rational. That is the root cause of their timeless suffering. Men too suffer when they are emotional in exceptional circumstances.
An emotional fool is bound to be a slave, and a logical and analytical man is bound to be his master. If you can analyse your enemy’s weaknesses, you can enslave him by pressing on those weaknesses. Man is a political animal, and power is his ultimate goal.
One of the most fascinating sights is to see a lion, the majestic king of the jungle with awesome physical power, and how it behaves like a helpless slave to a ringmaster in a circus.
Raw emotions are no match to the stupendous power of logic. An emotional woman is no match to the calculated interests of a logical man.
Women have never understood this plain truth. Despite what happened with Sita, they remain foolishly superstitious and worship Ram.
An emotional fool is his own enemy. You cannot blame the logical man for merely acting logically and exploiting a slave to carry his burdens.
An empty drum, a fool, a low-caste, an animal, and a woman – yeh sab taadan ke adhikaari. These are the slaves who actually DESERVE to be beaten.
I am very much agree with Purvi Shah.
Very good post!
listen, it’’s bcoz of our high EQ tat 2day, v r regarded as btr managers n leaders.dunno wat skewed thinking was going on in ur mind wen u wrote an emotional fool DESERVES 2 b ill-treated.n btw, women may certainly giv more than dey receive, but dat doesn”t mean dey r fools.n hello, v women worship ram, d virtuous human, d just king,d obedient son.doesn”t mean v r idiots, v kno 2 tk d gud n leave out d bad.
my advice-kindly think b4 u write, n spare us such meaningless writing.
Your logical argument proves that you are a MAN. I totall endorse your views. However what was represented in the Ramayana was based on the values of those days. And the characters are meant to stess those values. I am inspired to add a blog soon on this matter.
Hi Vikas,
The title of your post made me curious to read it and did read it. Another reason was since i am studying development studies, gender and power happens to be one interesting subject that study. Don”t you think that me need to redefine what is weak and what is power? Yes its the winners who right the history as your friend has commented, but isn”t this desire to be a winner itself to be questioned? this need to enslave itself to be questioned? Men show their weakness by fighting women show their strength in acceptance. There is a subtle understanding in women that its not the man its his insecurity that makes him enslave others . In his being powerful lies his weakness. Nature doesn”t punish. She does not wage a war, because she knows that man is in war with himself - she cries with this understanding that look at this fool who is all bent to kill himself. Nature follows, she does;t fight back. Because she knows war only destroys.
typo in the last comment Tulsidas, not ”Topsides”, :)) Coming back to your post. YES, women have been traditionally treated as door-mats. What an irony – the so-called ‘Richest reegions” in India: Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Wstern UP; are also the world champions when it come to female faeticide!!! Goes on to prove that wealth has very little to do with culture. No matter how many yearly trips to Vaishnav Devi one makes! ”Pothi padh padh jag mua, pandit bhaya na koye. Dhai aakhar prem ka, padhe jo pandit hoye”. Very good post!
Only the Winners write history, don”t they? As u title this post: “Dhol, Ganwaar, Shudra, Pashu, Naari… yeh sab taadan ke adikari”… “The drum, the villager, the Dalit, the animal and the Woman- all of them need to get beaten up.” The context under which Tulsitdas wrote that was, perhaps is missed, but he was best writer in Devanagari.Tulsidas- is it said that “if u want to learn Hindi grammar and literature, read Tulsidas”. How true! I read Tulsi Ramayan several times (purely on a literary perspective, this guy really knew how to play the language! A Hindi Shakespere!) U know, when Doyle wrote Sherlock Holmes, ppl actually believed that he existed.. We need to salute the Topsides the writer!
And they also say that ” Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”….. That too is a reality. We can”t accept generalisations…. Sita probably was a sentimental fool as Ram was a misguided husband… Apart from his bravado on the battlefield, Ram seems to have done precious little to command respect, let alone blind worshipping… Be it handling of Vaali, or Shoorpanakha, or his own wife Sita… Being a god he must have known the true identity of Swarnamruga.. he should have asked Sita to just shut up then only rather than subjecting her to Agnipareeksha later…
Exceptions prove the rule………………….To name a few:……..Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir, Mrs Bandernayak, Sheikh Hasina, Pratibha Patil(???? ….not included)
Two words - Triya Charitra. Now go figure.
HEY VIKAS ,,NO ONE DESERVES TO BE BEATEN PLEASE,,,,,NO ONE IS SLAVE,,PERHAPS SOME ARE AWARE AND SOME NOT,,EDUCATE BUT DONT BEAT DEAR…….
“An empty drum, a fool, a low-caste, an animal, and a woman — yeh sab taadan ke adhikaari. These are the slaves who actually DESERVE to be beaten.”
my friend.. i think you have not got the real meaning of the above sentence.. here the word ”Taadan” means ”understand”.. not beating.. It has been misinterpreted due to difference in ”boli”. Here Taadana is used like.. ”wo kya soch raha tha main use taad gaya. (What he was thinking I understood..)
Please stop these hate filled posts, mankind has been going thru the dark ages for past few centuries and you really cant say what existed before that. So stop such hate filled posts unless you know whats going on. even logical deduction can be twisted to the extreme and your post is such an example.
Women were respected in India in forms of goddess, show me other Christian/Muslim countries that do such stuff.
Problems exist for both sexes even in the ancient India, there have been bad characters both male and female. Ram and Sita were a really good couple their goodness lead to their miserable life dont just blame Ram (or males for it)
Todays lower status of women in India is mostly due to the constant aggression and loot/torture by invaders, a society that was open and free and equal has been reduced to a divided, unequal and corrupt form of today that doesent mean it was bad all the time.
Dont judge us by what the Americans or Brits did they may be a cause of our ills today.
Amiya, Prathibha Patil , WHO?!!!
Vikas,
perhaps you are missing that at the time of Ashwamegh Yagnya, Lav and Kush kids of Ram and Sita did fight the entire army of Ram (including Laxman, Bharat, Shaturghana) and defeated all of them..only they could not defeat Ram.
About women, have you read about Gargeyi, Maitreyi, Kunti, Devki, Kaikyee, Draupadee. Women are never weak, do not underestimate if you can understand them, there is no difference in man and women.
On the contrary women are more powerful than men..ask scientists..
We just bambard them that she is women and hence she is weak..
If women would have been weak then why Vishnu (in your eyes he is vilene :-)) would have been in Mohini Avatar to save lord Shiva from Bhasmasur and to offer Payas for Gods..:-)
Have you read the books wriiten by Yogi Arvind on our Indian Hostrocial women read them..
if my tone is aggresive anywhere am sorry…:-)
Nice to read your heart…:-)
I agree with DV Bhartiya’’s comments. Your last post Trial by Fire was good one and it made me look out for newer ones from your side.
Bur, this one dissapoints……
Hope to see something good and inteesting from your side soon.
Reading this blog has reminded me the recent remarks of karunanidhi on Lord Ram. If you want to get popularise, do express something against one particular class or community. You will get a flood of remarks opposing or favouring it. This time Vikas has done something similar. He has written something on woman and girls are expressing the comments very quickly.
As u see it has created a havoc ur blog, i am no feminist, and though I would love to say women are equals, i quite like your straighforward thinking. I believe men and women are bery differently programmed. We women can be as calculative and analytial if we chose to be,we are not emotional fools, men only think we are cause they are MEN. what is important to a man might not be important for a woman, like raging a war or fighting for themselves. Women do not regard their families or husband s as different entities from their own selves, and that is why it becomes so difficult to fight fr rights to Sita. Sita did a wonderful job by giving her sons their rights wihtout fighting and in the end, Bhagwan Ram was helpless cause she left him when he wanted her to accompany him. Ram and Sita are meant to be ideal man and woman, and if their relationship says something to us ,it is to accept that a relationship has its own highs and lows, it does not mean men and wmen shold fight over who’’s bet