\t\t\t\tI recently had an interaction with a young man from India over the Facebook.\u00a0 He wanted to know what a “real man” meant.<\/p>\n
I gave him the example of the Gurkha retired soldier, who defended a young girl from being raped by a mob of 40 people.\u00a0 (It wasn’t that difficult for him apparently to face 40 people, once he got into crazy mode, he just had to kill 3 of them with his Khukari, cut another 8, and the brave rapists then fled despite their heavy numerical superiority.)<\/p>\n
The guy was upset over the example!!\u00a0 Hard to believe for me.\u00a0 The guy was uttering words like patriarchy and misogyny (hatred of females) and all.\u00a0 I didn’t get it – what did he want, the Gurkha should have let the young girl get raped, in the name of female equality?<\/p>\n
The young man didn’t make any sense in his ramblings. I basically told him, as he seemed to be an intellectual young fella, look – you all should just go and learn how to use condoms, and go out have sex between willing boys and girls!\u00a0 India has a lot of sexual repressions, which leads to rape.\u00a0 Be revolutionary, destroy your chains.<\/p>\n
He ignored this sage piece of advice, and kept ranting and raving about how I didn’t understand patriarchy and misogyny.<\/p>\n
I still didn’t get it.\u00a0 What patriarchy?\u00a0 That’s a Western Abrahamic concept, in India the deities include women (Durga, Kali) etc, and the society is a mixed patriarchy-matriarchy.\u00a0 What misogyny?\u00a0 He was the one saying the Gurkha should have let the young girl get raped… If that’s not misogyny, what is?<\/p>\n
Then I realized.\u00a0 The dude had no clue what “patriarchy” and “misogyny” meant.\u00a0 He had read it in some Western articles, rote-memorized the words, and kept repeating whenever something involved with women came along!<\/p>\n
This, I felt, is rather sad.\u00a0 When even your intellectualism, your deep thoughts, are not your own – you have to borrow from an alien world without understanding that world’s concepts – how can the young face the real problems in India?\u00a0 Using the tools (concepts) from an alien culture cannot help them, they have to invent their own tools that really apply to the situation!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"