One essential step towards promoting humanity…….
One should treat men with
dignity, allow them to express their gentle side or just allow them
to be very good instead of expecting them to be compulsorily very bad
and blaming them for being bad later; this will not only help men but
will help women also to a greater extent and thus would result in a
harmonius, peaceful and happy society.
Societies in the past had
many superstitions but they never accepted them as superstitions but
believed they were hard “realities”. Likewise do we have
“modern superstitions” existing in our modern world but
think of them as “eternal truths”? According to my
observation, the present day myth which is detrimental to the entire
health of the society and which is being perpectuated both by “ladies
and gentlemen” is: “All men are demons and their only
purpose on this world is to harass women; men are symbols of evil;
all women are angels and they are always right; if a man makes sexual
advances, it is indecency and he should be punised severely; if he
doesn’t make sexual advances, he is a eunuch or homosexual; if a
woman doen’t do sexual advances, she is decent; if she does advance,
the guy is not harassed but “lucky”". The
superstitions produce lot of confusions both in men and women.
Finally since both men and women are meant to live harmoniously and
are meant to show love and not hatred towards each other, if men are
badly affected, it would definitely affect women directly or
indirectly. Again, the women centric present world where men have
always been enemies of other men but women are strongly united, blame
for all the instability created due to unnoticed indirect or direct
atrocies created on men by women and women biased men and also the
blame for the direct or indirect atrocies created by men on fellow
men and women in return, are put on men alone. This would result in
stricter and harder law enforcement on men which again would trigger
devastation of men or retaliation by men, both of which again affect
women. Hence it is of vital importance for the contempory society to
allow men to live with dignity. If there is a disease it is always
good to understand and treat for the root cause rather than not
accepting that there exists a disease at all. Although it is already
too late, if something in this regard is not done atleast now, the
whole human society would definitely going to blast and peace and
happiness for both men and women would just be a mirage forever.I am of the opinion that
it is difficult to completely eliminate terrorism by just brute force
without heading to the root cause which caused terror activities.
Same philosophy might be applied when it come to womens right also.
Just making harder laws in retaliation to certain heinous acts
commited by some men wouldn’t take the society anywhere, if it
doesn’t consider mens’ viewpoint and also if it doesn’t consider why
men indulged in such activities. Terror in return to terror can only
lead to a terror chain reaction. Hence, first of all the society
should be exposed to these real truths; awareness among men would be
a very strong weapon against this ever unnoticed discrimination
against men. Hence WE BADLY NEED A CAMPAIGN TO CREATE AWARENESS AMONG
MEN AND WOMEN REGARDING THESE ISSUES IF WE WANT TO SAVE OUR SOCIETY
FROM A VERY BAD CRISIS.
The idea is to make men
and women aware of mens’ rights and to recognize men as human beings.
I am not telling that women are not victimized; it is also possible
that discrimination against women is much more prevalent than
discrimination on men. But atleast they have good “voice”
these days and there are many organizations and projects working on
this issue; even if it is found that men are less victimized compared
to women, we need atleast very few organizations to address mens’
issues as opposed to a large number of womens’ groups. Remember, A
STRONG POISSON IN VERY SMALL AMOUNT IS MUCH MORE DANGEROUS THAN
CONTAMINATED FOOD IN LARGE QUANTITIES.
Men, women and hence the
whole society would greatly benifit from this. The idea is not to
promote “feminism” or “chauvinism” but to always
hold up “humanism”. Initially feminists were humanists but
now since they like to restrict themselves to be just “feminists”,
atleast a very few organizations and projects dealing with mens’
issues are not only desirable but vital for the survival of humanity.
Again, in addition to men, women would also be greatly greatly
benifited from this campaign.
There are renowned
psychologists and thinkers, both men and women, who have thought
about this. Their thoughts and ideas should be collected and brought
under one umbrella. These findings should be publicised and we should
be open for comments and criticisms by all. More we get cross
questions and more people argue that we are foolish or chauvinists,
more we get the chance to make known to the entire world that we are
right. And, TRUTH WILL SURVIVE IF IT IS TRUE THAT ONLY TRUTH CAN
SURVIVE THE TEST OF TIME.
Community psychologists
can keep statistical data regarding mental health, physical health of
men and women, conduct surveys on men and women, community happiness
etc. and can determine whether the campaign created and promoted a
healthy man-woman or woman-man relationship and whether it helped to
create a happy, harmonius, humanist society where all individuals
irrespective of gender live with dignity.