सबरीमाला - अय्यप्पा दीक्षा और महिलाओं का प्रवेश.

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> उच्चतम न्यायलय ने #सबरीमला मंदिर पर अपना निर्णय सुनाते ही चहुँओर लट्ठमलठ्ठी प्रारम्भ हो गई थी। #उदारवादी/ #लिबरल, प्रगतिशील तथा #नारीवादी/ #फेमिनिस्ट जन बधाइयाँ देने लगे, तो परम्परावादी सनातन धर्मी इस निर्णय को गरियाते दिखे। दक्षिणपन्थ/राईट विंग की सेनाएं इन दोनों शिविरों में बँटी दिखीं। तर्कों-वितर्कों और कुतर्कों के बीच जो बात स्पष्ट थी, वो ये कि लोगों में विषय की मूलभूत जानकारी का अभाव है। इसलिए हमने निर्णय लिया कि लोगों को इन तथ्यों से अवगत कराया जाए। परंतु सबसे पहले तो वे सभी जो मिठाइयाँ बाँटते हुए कोर्ट के निर्णय को महिलाओं की जीत बता रहे हैं, वे जान लें कि पहली बात तो ये कि अब इस निर्णय पर रिव्यू पेटिशन फ़ाइल किया जा रहा है, मने, ये लड्डू आप सभी के "हाथ तो आया, पर मुँह ना लगा"... और दूसरी बात ये कि इस प्रोपेगंडा और झूठ की जीत को "महिलाओं की जीत" कह कर भगवान अय्यप्पा की महिला भक्तों का अपमान ना करें... जिन्होंने #ReadyToWait के नाम से आप के विरुद्ध मोर्चा सम्हाला हुआ है।<br /> <br /> ५ जजों के पैनल में जहाँ ४ पुरुषों ने "महिलाओं को समानता का अधिकार" दिलाया, वहीं इकलौती महिला जज ने उनके विरुद्ध निर्णय दिया था। ये उन न्यायमूर्ति इंदू मल्होत्रा जी के निर्णय का ही प्रभाव है कि इस खंडपीठ के संयुक्त निर्णय पर अब रिव्यू पेटिशन फ़ाइल की जा रही है। इसलिए, सर्वप्रथम तो इन सभी "रेडी टू वेट" का मोर्चा सम्हालने वाली सनातनी हिन्दू महिलाओं-बहनों और न्यायमूर्ति इंदू मल्होत्रा जी को मेरा नमन। इतिहास साक्षी है कि धर्मरक्षा में सनातनी स्त्रियों के योगदान पुरुषों से कभी कम नहीं रहे – जब जब राजपूतों ने साका किया, तब तब राजपूत माताओं ने जौहर। आज इसी शृंखला में एक और कड़ी जुड़ गई है.<br /> <br /> अब आते हैं इस पूरे विषय के मुख्य बिंदुओं पर – सबरीमला में महिलाओं के प्रवेश पर रोक क्यों है?<br /> <br /> तो पहली बात तो ये है कि महिलाओं के प्रवेश पर रोक नहीं है, १० से ५० वर्ष की आयु के बीच की महिलाओं का प्रवेश वर्जित है। इसके पीछे के कारणों को समझने के पहले आपको ये समझना होगा की 'अय्यप्पा दीक्षा' क्या है?<br /> <br /> भगवान अय्यप्पा के दर्शन पाने के लिए आनेवाले भक्त आने से पूर्व ४१ दिनों का कठिन व्रत रखते हैं.<br /> <br /> जी हाँ! स्वामी अय्यप्पा के भक्त सबरीमला आने से पूर्व 'अय्यपा दीक्षा' लेते हैं और ४१ दिन का कठिन व्रत रखते हैं, जिसमें वे ब्रह्मचर्य का पालन करते हैं, काले वस्त्र धारण करते हैं और जहाँ कहीं जाते हैं, नंगे पैर ही जाते हैं। मदिरापान का निषेध होता है. दिन में तीन बार स्नान और चटाई पर सोना होता है. पुरुष इस अवधि में दाढ़ी भी नहीं काटते।<br /> <br /> जैसा कि हमने अपने पिछले विडियो में बताया था, अय्यप्पा दीक्षा कोई भी ले सकता है - यहाँ सवर्ण-दलित, धनी-निर्धन जैसा कोई भेद नहीं होता.  इस दीक्षा के पश्चात्, व्रत के समय लोग इन व्रतधारियों को 'स्वामी' कह कर सम्बोधित करते हैं - अब वो व्यक्ति चाहे कोई फेमस फिल्मस्टार हो, या रिक्शा-चालक - वो केवल "स्वामी" होगा... सब के बीच कोई अंतर नहीं, सारे एक समान! सबरीमला मंदिर के बाहर जो महावाक्य लिखा है "तत्त्वमसि" अर्थात "तुम भी वही (ब्रह्म) हो" - ये एक-दूजे को "स्वामी" कह कर संबोधित करना, उसी महावाक्य का पालन है - एक दूसरे में उस ब्रह्म के अंश का सम्मान है.<br /> <br /> इन ४१ दिनों में मदिरा-पान का निषेध होने के कारण ये एक प्रकार से कई लोगों को इस दुर्व्यसन का आदी होने से बचाता है. सब कोई साथ मिल कर इस व्रत का पालन करते हैं, जिससे परिवार-समाज का ताना-बाना सुदृढ़ होता है - आज के न्यूक्लियर फॅमिली के समय में ये कितना बड़ा वरदान है, इसपर विचार करियेगा.<br /> <br /> एक प्रकार से सबरीमला मंदिर पुरुषों को एक एक्सक्लूसिव स्पेस... एक  विशेष-निजी स्थान उपलब्ध कराता है, जहाँ सब अपने जीवन से निगेटिविटी/नकारात्मकता से छुटकारा पा पाते हैं. अब चूँकि वे इस यात्रा पर आए होते हैं, उनके परिवार की महिलाएं पीछे घर में महिलाओं के कार्यक्रमों के आयोजन के लिए समय पा जाती हैं. अर्थात, पुरुषों और महिलाओं दोनों के लिए भिन्न प्रकार की व्यवस्था है, जिनके दोनों को लाभ मिलते हैं.<br /> <br /> अब इसमें जिन लोगों को महिलाओं के साथ भेद-भाव दिखता है, वे ये जान लें कि केरल ही नहीं, भारतभर में ऐसे कई मंदिर हैं जिनमें केवल महिलाओं को ही प्रवेश की अनुमति है, पुरुषों का प्रवेश निषेध है! दक्षिण-भारत में पोंगल त्यौहार पर, महिलाएं घर से बाहर मीठा-चावल पकाती हैं जिसे 'पोंगल' कहते हैं. इस दिन मानों सारी सडकों पर महिलाओं का आधिपत्य हो जाता है और पुरुष घर के भीतर बैठते हैं. भारतीय संस्कृति में ऐसी कई रीतियाँ हैं, जिनमें महिलाओं और पुरुषों के लिए पृथक व्यवस्था होती है. इसका अर्थ ये तो नहीं कि भेदभाव किया जा रहा है. उदाहरण के रूप में, उत्तर भारत के 'नकटौरा' की बात ही ले लीजिये - विवाह समारोह में ये महिलाओं का अपना कार्यक्रम होता है, जहाँ पुरुषों का आना मना होता है. पुरुषों के ना होने के कारण, महिलाएं खुल कर हँसी-ठिठोली करती हैं. देखिये, यदि समान अधिकारों के नाम पर सबके लिए सबकुछ एक जैसा ही कर दिया जाए, तो जीवन बहुत नीरस हो जाएगा, नहीं?<br /> <br /> <br /> अब दूसरी बात ये है, कि इस मंदिर में भगवान् अय्यप्पा ब्रह्मचारी रूप में प्रकट हैं। नहीं, गलत मत समझिये कि उनके ब्रह्मचर्य को किसी नारी से भय है – ना ऐसा है, ना कभी हो सकता है। भक्ति की बात है, कि जो जग का पालन-पोषण करता है, उसे हम प्रशाद चढ़ाते हैं, भोग लगाते हैं – क्या उस देवता का पेट भर पाने का हमारा सामर्थ्य है? परंतु यहीं भावनाओं की बात आती है – भगवान भावनाओं के भूखे हैं। और भक्त जो भी चढ़ाए, वो उसमें अपनी भावनाएं ही चढ़ा रहा है, भक्ति ही अर्पण कर रहा है।<br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ExCpxPQmKE" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D_ExCpxPQmKE&ved=2ahUKEwingO7k3pzeAhVDso8KHUfMABQQtwIwAXoECAQQAQ" style="background-color: white; color: #660099; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" target="_blank"></a><br /> <div> भगवद्गीता में श्रीकृष्ण, ९वें अध्याय के २६वें श्लोक में अर्जुन से कहते हैं कि "यदि कोई प्रेम तथा भक्ति के साथ मुझे पत्ते, पुष्प, फल अथवा जल अर्पण करता है, तो मैं उसे स्वीकार करता हूँ" - यहाँ भक्ति और प्रेम का महत्व समझाया गया है.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> देवी-देवता निर्गुण-निराकार ब्रह्म का सगुण रूप हैं। सगुण हैं, इसका तात्पर्य ये हुआ कि उनका स्वभाव भी है – एक पूरी पेर्सोनालिटी है। एक ओर शिव जी थोड़े में ही प्रसन्न हो जाते हैं और भोले-भाले हैं, तो दूसरी ओर श्री कृष्ण नटखट और चतुर हैं। अब भक्त भी एक ही भगवान् को भिन्न रूप में पूजते हैं – कभी श्रीकृष्ण 'लड्डू गोपाल' के नाम से बच्चे बन जाते हैं और भक्त इनपर वात्सल्य रुपी भक्ति लुटा कर धन्य हो जाता है, तो कभी कोई अर्जुन या सुदामा की भाँति सखा रूप में पूजता है। मीराबाई ने इन्हें पति माना, तो द्रौपदी ने सखा! यहाँ तक कि 'सखी सम्प्रदाय' में पुरुष भक्त स्वयं को इन्हीं कृष्ण की गोपियाँ मान कर उन्हें पूजते हैं। इतना सब कहने का तात्पर्य ये है कि भक्ति में देवता के स्वभाव का महत्त्व होता है और उस स्वाभाव के अनुसार उन्हें प्रसन्न करने हेतु समर्पित भक्त की भावना का। भक्ति और प्रेम में समर्पण होता है, अधिकारों का हठ नहीं.<br /> <br /> यहाँ स्वामी अय्यप्पा के सबरीमला मंदिर में नर-नारी सभी एक समान हैं, परन्तु भगवान् यहाँ ब्रह्मचारी रूप में विराजमान है... और ठीक इसी प्रकार, वे </div> <div> १. Kulathupuzha/कुलाथूपुझा/कुलाथूपुळा में बाल रूप में</div> <div> २. अचनकोइल में गृहस्थ रूप में और </div> <div> ३. अर्यांकवु में वानप्रस्थ रूप में विराजते हैं.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> विरोधियों द्वारा इस झूठ का प्रसार किया गया कि सबरीमला में महिलाओं को इसलिए प्रवेश नहीं दिया जाता क्योंकि माहवारी को... मेनस्ट्रूएशन को 'अपवित्र' माना जाता है - ऐसा बिलकुल नहीं है. एक ब्रह्मचारी गर्भ धारण करने योग्य आयु की स्त्री से दूर रहता है. इसके अपने कारण हैं... जिन पर हम किसी और विडिओ में सविस्तार चर्चा करेंगे, परन्तु ये "अपवित्र" वाला तर्क ना केवल झूठा है, अपितु बहुत ही बड़ा-भद्दा आरोप है.... जो कि स्पष्ट रूप से इस मंदिर की अपकीर्ति फ़ैलाने... डीफेम करने का षड्यंत्र है.<br /> <br /> <br /></div> <div> स्वयं न्यायमूर्ति इंदू मल्होत्रा जी ने भी अपने निर्णय में कहा कि स्वामी अय्यप्पा के १०० मंदिरों में से किसी मंदिर में महिलाओं के प्रवेश पर रोक नहीं है... क्योंकि वहाँ भगवान् ब्रह्मचारी रूप में वास नहीं करते। परंतु चूँकि सबरीमला में वे ब्रह्मचारी रूप में हैं, तो १० से ५ ० वर्ष की आयु की महिलाओं के प्रवेश पर रोक है।<br /> <br /> बाकी रिलिजियंस में भगवान स्त्री-रूप में पूजे जाते हैं या नहीं, ये मुझे नहीं पता, परन्तु सनातन धर्म तो मातृशक्ति को पूजता है ही. जिस संस्कृति में ऐसे मंदिर हैं, जिनमें पुरुषों का प्रवेश वर्जित है, जहाँ केवल महिलाऐं ही जाती हैं... वहाँ इस प्रकार के आरोपों का कोई औचित्य ही नहीं है. मैं ह पुनः कह रहा हूँ, ये केवल और केवल सनातन धर्म को बदनाम करने का षड्यंत्र है, जिससे धर्म परिवर्तन के काम सरल हो जाएं... और सबरीमाला मंदिर इस प्रकार के षड्यंत्र और आक्रमण कई दशकों से झेलता आ रहा है. इस विषय पर जानकारी हम अपने अगले विडिओ में देंगे. आज अपनी बात मैं यहीं समाप्त करता हूँ. धन्यवाद. </div> </div>

सबरीमाला - अय्यप्पा दीक्षा और महिलाओं का प्रवेश.

उच्चतम न्यायलय ने #सबरीमला मंदिर पर अपना निर्णय सुनाते ही चहुँओर लट्ठमलठ्ठी प्रारम्भ हो गई थी। #उदारवादी/ #लिबरल, प्रगतिशील तथा #नारीवादी/ ...

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> उच्चतम न्यायलय ने #सबरीमला मंदिर पर अपना निर्णय सुनाते ही चहुँओर लट्ठमलठ्ठी प्रारम्भ हो गई थी। #उदारवादी/ #लिबरल, प्रगतिशील तथा #नारीवादी/ #फेमिनिस्ट जन बधाइयाँ देने लगे, तो परम्परावादी सनातन धर्मी इस निर्णय को गरियाते दिखे। दक्षिणपन्थ/राईट विंग की सेनाएं इन दोनों शिविरों में बँटी दिखीं। तर्कों-वितर्कों और कुतर्कों के बीच दो बातें स्पष्ट थीं –<br /> १. पक्ष-विपक्ष दोनों ही महिलाओं के सम्मान को सर्वोच्च मानते हैं।<br /> २. दोनों ही पक्षों में विषय की मूलभूत जानकारियों का अभाव है।<br /> <br /> इसलिए हमने निर्णय लिया कि लोगों को इन तथ्यों से अवगत कराया जाए। परंतु सबसे पहले तो वे सभी जो मिठाइयाँ बाँटते हुए इसे महिलाओं की जीत बता रहे हैं, वे जान लें कि पहली बात तो ये कि अब इस निर्णय पर रिव्यू पेटिशन फ़ाइल किया जा रहा है, मने, ये लड्डू आप सभी के "हाथ तो आया, पर मुँह ना लगा"... और दूसरी बात ये कि इस प्रोपेगंडा और झूठ की जीत को "महिलाओं की जीत" कह कर भगवान अय्यप्पा की महिला भक्तों का अपमान ना करें... जिन्होंने #ReadyToWait के नाम से आप के विरुद्ध मोर्चा सम्हाला हुआ है।<br /> <br /> ५ जजों के पैनल में जहाँ ४ पुरुषों ने "महिलाओं को समानता का अधिकार" दिलाया, वहीं इकलौती महिला जज ने उनके विरुद्ध निर्णय दिया था। ये उन न्यायमूर्ति इंदू मल्होत्रा जी के निर्णय का ही प्रभाव है कि इस खंडपीठ के संयुक्त निर्णय पर अब रिव्यू पेटिशन फ़ाइल की जा रही है। इसलिए, सर्वप्रथम तो इन सभी "रेडी टू वेट" का मोर्चा सम्हालने वाली सनातनी हिन्दू महिलाओं और न्यायमूर्ति इंदू मल्होत्रा जी को मेरा नमन। धर्मरक्षा में सनातनी स्त्रियों के योगदान पुरुषों से कभी कम नहीं रहे – जब जब राजपूतों ने साका किया, तब तब राजपूत माताओं ने जौहर। आज इसी शृंखला में एक और कड़ी जुड़ गई है।<br /> <br /> अब आते हैं इस पूरे विषय के मुख्य बिंदुओं पर – सबरीमला में महिलाओं के प्रवेश पर रोक क्यों है?<br /> <br /> तो पहली बात तो ये है कि महिलाओं के प्रवेश पर रोक नहीं है, १० से ५० वर्ष की आयु के बीच की महिलाओं का प्रवेश वर्जित है। इसके पीछे के कारणों को समझने के पहले आपको ये समझना होगा की 'अय्यप्पा दीक्षा' क्या है?<br /> <br /> तो, पहली बात तो ये कि सबरीमला मंदिर सदा खुला नहीं रहता. इसके पट खुलने का समय या अवधि है -<br /> १. मंडलपूजा, जो कि लगभग १५ नवम्बर से २६ दिसंबर का समय है.<br /> २. मकर संक्रांति (१४ जनवरी)<br /> ३. महाविष्णु संक्रांति (१४ अप्रैल) और<br /> ४. मलयाली कैलंडर के हर महीने के पहले ५ दिन.<br /> <br /> अब, यहाँ भगवान्द अय्यप्पा के दर्शन पाने के लिए आनेवाले भक्त आने से पूर्व ४१ दिनों का कठिन व्रत रखते हैं.<br /> <br /> जी हाँ! स्वामी अय्यप्पा के भक्त सबरीमला आने से पूर्व 'अय्यपा दीक्षा' लेते हैं और ४१ दिन का कठिन व्रत रखते हैं, जिसमें वे ब्रह्मचर्य का पालन करते हैं, काले वस्त्र धारण करते हैं और जहाँ कहीं जाते हैं, नंगे पैर ही जाते हैं। मदिरापान का निषेध होता है. दिन में तीन बार स्नान और चटाई पर सोना होता है. पुरुष इस अवधि में दाढ़ी भी नहीं काटते। यहाँ ४१ दिनों के व्रत के पीछे भी रोचक कारण है – सौर मने सोलार कैलेंडर के अनुसार वर्ष के ३६५ दिन होते हैं और लूनार कैलेंडर के अनुसार ३२४... तो इनके बीच का अंतर हुआ ४१ दिनों का। इन्हीं ४१ दिनों में व्रत का पालन कर स्वामी अय्यप्पा के भक्त अपने देवता के दर्शनों के लिए सबरीमला आते हैं।<br /> <br /> जैसा कि हमने अपने पिछले विडियो में बताया था, अय्यप्पा दीक्षा कोई भी ले सकता है - यहाँ सवर्ण-दलित, धनी-निर्धन जैसा कोई भेद नहीं होता. यहाँ तक इस दीक्षा के पश्चात्, व्रत के समय लोग इन व्रतधारियों को 'स्वामी' कह कर सम्बोधित करते हैं - अब वो व्यक्ति चाहे कोई फेमस फिल्मस्टार हो, या रिक्शा-चालक - वो केवल "स्वामी" होगा... सब के बीच कोई अंतर नहीं, सारे एक समान! मंदिर के बाहर जो महावाक्य लिखा है "तत्त्वमसि" अर्थात "तुम भी वही (ब्रह्म) हो" - ये एक-दूजे को "स्वामी" कह कर संबोधित करना, उसी महावाक्य का पालन है - एक दूसरे में उस ब्रह्म के अंश का सम्मान है.<br /> <br /> इन ४१ दिनों में मदिरा-पान का निषेध होने के कारण ये एक प्रकार से कई लोगों को इस दुर्व्यसन का आदी होने से रोकता है. सब कोई साथ मिल कर इस व्रत का पालन करते हैं, जिससे परिवार-समाज का ताना-बाना सुदृढ़ होता है - आज के न्यूक्लियर फॅमिली के समय में ये कितना बड़ा वरदान है, इसपर विचार करियेगा.<br /> <br /> एक प्रकार से सबरीमला मंदिर पुरुषों को एक एक्सक्लूसिव स्पेस... एक  विशेष-निजी स्थान उपलब्ध कराता है, जहाँ सब अपने जीवन से निगेटिविटी/नकारात्मकता से छुटकारा पा पाते हैं. अब चूँकि वे इस यात्रा पर आए होते हैं, उनके परिवार की महिलाएं पीछे घर में महिलाओं के कार्यक्रमों के आयोजन के लिए समय पा जाती हैं. अर्थात, पुरुषों और महिलाओं दोनों के लिए भिन्न प्रकार की व्यवस्था है, जिनके दोनों को लाभ मिलते हैं.<br /> <br /> अब इसमें जिन लोगों को महिलाओं के साथ भेद-भाव दिखता है, वे ये जान लें कि केरल ही नहीं, भारतभर में ऐसे कई मंदिर हैं जिनमें केवल महिलाओं को ही प्रवेश की अनुमति है, पुरुषों का प्रवेश निषेध है! दक्षिण-भारत में पोंगल त्यौहार पर, महिलाएं घर से बाहर मीठा-चावल पकाती हैं जिसे 'पोंगल' कहते हैं. इस दिन मानों सारी सडकों पर महिलाओं का आधिपत्य हो जाता है और पुरुष घर के भीतर बैठते हैं. भारतीय संस्कृति में ऐसी कई रीतियाँ हैं, जिनमें महिलाओं और पुरुषों के लिए पृथक व्यवस्था होती है. इसका अर्थ ये तो नहीं कि भेदभाव किया जा रहा है. उदाहरण के रूप में, 'नकटौरा' की बात ही ले लीजिये - विवाह समारोह में ये महिलाओं का अपना कार्यक्रम होता है, जहाँ पुरुषों का आना मना होता है. पुरुषों के ना होने के कारण, महिलाएं खुल कर हँसी-ठिठोली करती हैं. देखिये, यदि समान अधिकारों के नाम पर सबके लिए सबकुछ एक जैसा ही कर दिया जाए, तो जीवन बहुत नीरस हो जाएगा, नहीं?<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> अब दूसरी बात ये है, कि इस मंदिर में भगवान् अय्यप्पा ब्रह्मचारी रूप में प्रकट हैं। नहीं, गलत मत समझिये कि उनके ब्रह्मचर्य को किसी नारी से भय है – ना ऐसा है, ना कभी हो सकता है। भक्ति की बात है, कि जो जग का पालन-पोषण करता है, उसे हम प्रशाद चढ़ाते हैं, भोग लगाते हैं – क्या उस देवता का पेट भर पाने का हमारा सामर्थ्य है? परंतु यहीं भावनाओं की बात आती है – भगवान भावनाओं के भूखे हैं। और भक्त जो भी चढ़ाए, वो उसमें अपनी भावना ही चढ़ा रहा है, भक्ति ही अर्पण कर रहा है।<br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ExCpxPQmKE" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D_ExCpxPQmKE&ved=2ahUKEwingO7k3pzeAhVDso8KHUfMABQQtwIwAXoECAQQAQ" style="background-color: white; color: #660099; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" target="_blank"></a><br /> <div> भगवद्गीता में श्रीकृष्ण, ९वें अध्याय के २६वें श्लोक में अर्जुन से कहते हैं कि "यदि कोई प्रेम तथा भक्ति के साथ मुझे पत्ते, पुष्प, फल अथवा जल अर्पण करता है, तो मैं उसे स्वीकार करता हूँ" - यहाँ भक्ति और प्रेम का महत्व समझाया गया है.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> देवी-देवता इस निर्गुण-निराकार ब्रह्म का सगुण रूप हैं। सगुण हैं, इसका तात्पर्य ये हुआ कि उनका स्वभाव भी है – एक पूरी पेर्सोनालिटी है। एक ओर शिव जी थोड़े में ही प्रसन्न हो जाते हैं और भोले-भाले हैं, तो दूसरी ओर श्री कृष्ण नटखट और चतुर हैं। अब भक्त भी एक ही भगवान् को भिन्न रूप में पूजते हैं – कभी श्रीकृष्ण 'लड्डू गोपाल' के नाम से बच्चे बन जाते हैं और भक्त इनपर वात्सल्य रुपी भक्ति लुटा कर धन्य हो जाता है, तो कभी कोई अर्जुन या सुदामा की भाँति सखा रूप में पूजता है। मीराबाई ने इन्हें पति माना, तो द्रौपदी ने सखा! यहाँ तक कि 'सखी सम्प्रदाय' में पुरुष भक्त स्वयं को इन्हीं कृष्ण की गोपियाँ मान कर उन्हें पूजते हैं। इतना सब कहने का तात्पर्य ये है कि भक्ति में देवता के स्वभाव का महत्त्व होता है और उस स्वाभाव के अनुसार उन्हें प्रसन्न करने हेतु समर्पित भक्त की भावना का। यहाँ स्वामी अय्यप्पा के सबरीमला मंदिर में नर-नारी सभी एक समान हैं, परन्तु भगवान् यहाँ ब्रह्मचारी रूप में विराजमान है... और ठीक इसी प्रकार, वे </div> <div> १. Kulathupuzha/कुलाथूपुझा/कुलाथूपुळा में बाल रूप में</div> <div> २. अचनकोइल में गृहस्थ रूप में और </div> <div> ३. अर्यांकवु में वानप्रस्थ रूप में विराजते हैं.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> अब इस झूठ का प्रसार किया गया की सबरीमला में महिलाओं को इसलिए प्रवेश नहीं दिया जाता क्योंकि माहवारी को... मेनस्ट्रूएशन को 'अपवित्र' माना जाता है - ऐसा बिलकुल नहीं है. एक ब्रह्मचारी गर्भ धारण करने योग्य आयु की स्त्री से दूर रहता है. इसके अपने कारण हैं, परन्तु ये "अपवित्र" वाला तर्क ना केवल झूठा है, अपितु बहुत ही बड़ा-भद्दा आरोप है.... जो कि स्पष्ट रूप से इस मंदिर की अपकीर्ति फ़ैलाने... डीफेम करने का षड्यंत्र है.</div> <div> <br /> <br /> स्वयं न्यायमूर्ति इंदू मल्होत्रा जी ने भी अपने निर्णय में कहा कि स्वामी अय्यप्पा के सैकड़ों मंदिरों में से किसी मंदिर में महिलाओं के प्रवेश पर रोक नहीं है, क्योंकि वहाँ भगवान् ब्रह्मचारी रूप में वास नहीं करते। परंतु चूँकि सबरीमला में वे ब्रह्मचारी रूप में हैं, तो १० से ५ ० वर्ष की आयु की महिलाओं के प्रवेश पर रोक है। अब इस रोक को सब 'पेट्रिआरकल डिस्क्रिमिनेशन अगेंस्ट वीमेन' अर्थात 'पितृसत्ता का महिलाओं के साथ भेदभाव' बता रहे हैं... तो ये हम क्यों और कैसे मान लें कि इस रोक को पुरुषों ने लगाई?<br /> <br /> जिस धर्म में वैदिक ऋचाओं की द्रष्टा <span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">अपाला, घोषा, सरस्वती, सर्पराज्ञी, सूर्या, सावित्री, अदिति- दाक्षायनी, लोपामुद्रा, विश्ववारा, आत्रेयी आदि</span> ऋषिकाएं भी रहीं, जिस संस्कृति में ऐसे मंदिर हैं, जिनमें पुरुषों का प्रवेश वर्जित है, जहाँ केवल महिलाऐं ही जाती हैं, वहाँ ऐसा क्यों नहीं हो सकता कि इस प्रकार की व्यवस्था के पीछे किसी तपस्विनी माताओं का आशिर्वाद रहा हो - जिन्होंने समाज में ना केवल महिलाओं के लिए पृथक न </div> </div>

उच्चतम न्यायलय ने #सबरीमला मंदिर पर अपना निर्णय सुनाते ही चहुँओर लट्ठमलठ्ठी प्रारम्भ हो गई थी। #उदारवादी/ #लिबरल, प्रगतिशील तथा #नारीवादी/ ...

Why Do Male Feminists Rape?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> For what seems like forever on social media, a repeating cycle has taken place. No, not just hordes of blue checkmark verified liberals screaming into the abyss of Donald J. Trump’s mentions every hour of every day.</div> <h3 id="itgoeslikethisamanisafeministamandecriestoxicmasculinityrailsagainstwhitenessdemandsthatmenstartbeingrealmenandjointheresistance" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"> It goes like this. A man is a feminist. A man decries toxic masculinity, rails against Whiteness, demands that men start being <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">real men</em> and join #TheResistance.</h3> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> The man is likely a writer for Vice. The man opposed Gamergate, wrung his hands in sympathy for feminists who, he was sure, were targeted by misogynistic basement dwellers.</div> <div id="ld-7788-6480" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; max-width: 1000px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> He recognises his privilege. He is a good feminist male ally. He is woke. Then: he is arrested for rape.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> Why? What is the underlying connection? It has been the position of many that the male feminist is secretly a predator, who is too beta-male to acquire female attention, and so joins a cult populated by women and other beta-males in order to get laid. It is a popular and plausible theory, but I contend it is too superficial to provide a complete answer. In this article, we will explore the underlying roots of what drives someone to become the worst imaginable kind of hypocrite.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> It begins with the human search for identity. We used to examine ourselves, explore our inner machinations. Codified in many religious sects is the demand to know oneself. This concept is best expressed by the Ancient Greeks. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Gnothi Seauton</em>, know thyself, is inscribed in the court of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Yet, who is the real I, where does he hide from ME? I know who he is not, but how and what and if at all HE is, I have never discovered although for more than seventy years I have been looking for him.</em> ~ Bernard Berenson</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">File this with all the other headlines that aged terribly this year.</em></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> In all religions, philosophical doctrines and schools of thought, we boil down to this one fundamental question. Who am I? Without knowing who one truly is, we find ourselves adrift, searching around and paddling aimlessly on the seas of our own consciousness for something, someone, to show us the way to who we are. Charlatans, gurus and mystics have become rich by peddling the answers, as the sellers of indulgences exploited to perfection.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> When we do not know ourselves we are prey for anyone that may come along with an attractive idea. We are prey for those who would sell us a cure for what ails in one moment, while informing us that we are sickening from a new invisible disease in the next. The context of our modern society is shaped so that the identity we should find within is placed within reach, without. In the process of growing from child to adult, we reshape ourselves to fit into the often conflicting demands of a society we do not understand. So detached from the inner-self have we become that external demand of what we should be takes precedence over what we <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">are.</em></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> This is the allure of identity politics. It is a cheap fake. It tells you that you are skin colour, genitalia, class, ethnicity. Identity politics says nothing about your character. As a weapon of control, identity politics is advanced by shysters who are no more moral than the men who understood that canned laughter accompanying a bad comedy forces a laugh from the audience.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> Imagine such a case, then, that some men look for identity and are told that theirs is bad. Toxic. A thing to be fought against and apologised for, forever. An eternal penance for the crime of not knowing <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">who you really are.</em></div> <h4 id="inthiswaythemalefeministissurelyoneofthemosttragicvictimsofourage" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"> In this way, the male feminist is surely one of the most tragic victims of our age.</h4> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> To understand the psychological importance to feminism of checking one’s privilege and the impact on the cult victim, we must first talk about shiny toy robots.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> Back in 1965, psychologist Jonathan Freedman conducted an experiment on compliance in children. He wanted to see if he could instil a particular behaviour in eight-year-old boys, just by telling them to obey. No mean feat, as I am sure anyone reading this who has spent any time with children at all can attest.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> Freedman first warned the boys of dire consequences if they were to play with a toy robot after they had completed some tasks. The boys had four other toys to play with, of far lower quality. When Freedman left the room to watch the unfolding events behind a two-way mirror, he discovered that 21 out of 22 boys did <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">not</em> play with the robot.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> He had expected this. The next phase of the experiment took place six weeks later, featuring a female assistant overseeing the same group of boys. The toys were the same also. This time though, the assistant said that the boys could play with whatever toys they liked, with no prohibition. 77% chose to play with the robot that had been forbidden to them earlier.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> So, when a child is forbidden from doing something with dire consequences, the object which is forbidden becomes almost irresistible. Freedman proved his hypothesis by repeating the study with a control group, who were presented the same array of toys. This time though, Freedman merely said: “it is wrong to play with the robot” and left the room to observe.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> Just as with the other sample, only 1 of the 22 boys touched the robot during the short time Freedman was gone.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> The real difference between the two samples of boys came six weeks later when they had a chance to play with the toys while Freedman was no longer around. An astonishing thing happened. The boys who earlier had been given no strong threat against playing with the robot, when given the freedom to play with any toy they wished, most avoided the robot. Even though it was by far the most attractive of the five toys available (the others were a cheap plastic submarine, a child’s baseball glove without a ball, an unloaded toy rifle, and a toy tractor). When these boys played with one of the five toys, only 33 percent chose the robot.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> Something dramatic had happened to both groups of boys. For the first group, it was the severe threat they heard from Freedman to back up his statement that playing with the robot was “wrong.” It had been quite effective, while Freedman could catch them violating his rule. Later, though, when he was no longer present to observe the boys’ behaviour, his threat was impotent and his rule was, consequently, ignored. It seems clear that the threat had not taught the boys that operating the robot was wrong, only that it was unwise to do so when the possibility of punishment existed.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">For the other boys, the dramatic event had come from inside, not outside. Freedman had instructed them, too, that playing with the robot was wrong, but he had added no threat of punishment should they disobey him. There were two important results. First, Freedman’s instruction alone was enough to prevent the boys from operating the robot while he was briefly out of the room. Second, the boys took personal responsibility for their choices to stay away from the robot during that time. They decided that they hadn’t played with it because they didn’t want to. After all, there were no strong punishments associated with the toy to explain their behaviour otherwise. Thus, weeks later, when Freedman was nowhere around, they still ignored the robot because they had been changed inside to believe that they did not want to play with it.</em> (Cialdini, Robert B. (2009–08–20). Influence: Science and Practice</div> <h4 id="whatdoesfreedmantellusaboutthemindofthemalefeminist" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"> What does Freedman tell us about the mind of the male feminist?</h4> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> In simple terms, Freedman is showing us how forbidden fruit entices us all. From the Garden of Eden to a robot in a classroom in 1965, the fundamental is the same. The instruction from God to refuse the apple from the Tree of Knowledge is the reflected in the <a href="https://www.huxley.net/soma/somaquote.html" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 3px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Soma</a> of <a href="https://medium.com/thenewright/how-the-west-was-lost-1-neo-marxism-77d79c172367" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 3px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;">Neo-Marxist indoctrination</a> in Feminism’s Brave New World. Women, the protected class- to interact with one in any way that might be considered remotely masculine is forbidden. Haram. Women, for the male feminist, have become the apple.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> <a class="zoom fluidbox__instance-4 fluidbox--initialized fluidbox--closed fluidbox--ready" href="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*H8KjPBZRNTMac2jTnNTKYw.png" style="background: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom: 3px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"></a></div> <div class="fluidbox__wrap" style="background-position: center center; background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; position: relative; transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out 0s; z-index: 990;"> <img alt="img" class="fluidbox__thumb" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*H8KjPBZRNTMac2jTnNTKYw.png" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 50px auto; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: middle;" /></div> <div class="fluidbox__wrap" style="background-position: center center; background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; position: relative; transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out 0s; z-index: 990;"> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> They are the shiny red robot, for which the male feminist is subjected to an eternal mental loop- <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">do not touch do not think do not look do not talk do not do not do not no no.</em> Much further than the societal constraints that assist in the function of civilisation goes this conditioning. The male feminist is reduced to little more than an obedient drone- while he maintains his un-natural composure, of course.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> The simple solution to achieving the proclaimed aim of ending rape culture is the exact opposite of what feminists have been demanding for decades. Rape culture is, in reality, a construct of feminism itself- at least in the developed western world.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> So, in the programmed mind of the male feminist, when [any-flirt-action = crime] <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">and</em> [malesexdrive = rape] just as Dworkin prophesied, then our poor chaps are living on borrowed time. While I obviously make no apology for rapists or those who commit sex crime (I advocate for much harsher sentencing for any individual who rapes than currently prescribed in the west) we must acknowledge that many of the crimes we prosecute in the court of public opinion are not crimes at all. I briefly touched on this when discussing Rupert Myers, late of GQ, who fell foul of feminist social media by saying that we would rather have sexual congress with a woman than be her friend and tried to kiss her after an evening consuming alcohol.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> For this crime, he lost his job. Feminist online mobs wield shame-powerover even large institutions, once the employees of those institutions transgress the laws of the FemCult. This example is merely the extreme of the Far Left power play that shackles the entirety of the English-speaking world. We can laugh and call these men cucks and soyboys and betas, and feel good about ourselves and our red-pilled ways. That is dangerous, however true it may be.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> You are under imminent threat of losing your livelihood for speaking in the wrong way. Just as these male feminists have. They are the canaries in the coal mine, who are so sensitive and so close to the face that they are first to be asphyxiated by toxic gas.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> Weaponised Neo-Marxist ideology has you all in its terrible grip. The toxic fumes that kill the canary will eventually kill all the miners too, unless someone spots that the bird is twitching at the bottom of his cage. You can see this for yourself. Take out your Union Jack and walk with it through any street in Britain. Write a sign saying #AllLivesMatter and stand on the streets of Chicago, or New York, or San Francisco. Mock Hitler using a cute dog, while living in Scotland.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> This is the true and secret <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">intersectionality</em> that is causing our world to corrode.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> But why do these feminist men adopt these impossible rules in the first place?</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“L’enfer est plein de bonnes volontés ou désirs.”</em><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Hell is full of good wishes or desires.~Bernard of Clairvaux, 1150 AD.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> It begins for most men with the simple desire to be liked by women. It is a simple thing that we all crave, from the attention of our mothers in childhood through to adolescent yearning for the coolest girl in school who doesn’t know you exist. Then, at some point, a young man may be talking to a young woman and she will say the fateful words;</div> <blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 30px 0px; padding: 50px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; line-height: 34px;"> “You believe in equality for womyn- don’t you?”</div> </blockquote> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> This is the first fateful step. It is unanswerable in any way that will produce a positive outcome for the young man, and so, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">poof</em> a new male feminist is born. Quickly he learns from his new Mystress of the terrible legacy of his sex, how his very penis is an oppressive weapon. And so, he must confess his sins.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> Publicly acknowledging one’s privilege is a social signal. It is as powerful for the freshly radicalised Neo-Marxist as it is for the saved Christian who accepts Christ. Anyone who has left a faith will tell you of the internal struggle to renounce pledges you have spoken. Psychologically speaking, it is far harder to go back on your word if it is written down, or spoken in public.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> The Chinese knew this during the Korean War. With American POWs, they asked the prisoners to write down everything. In interrogation, to win small bonuses like a few cigarettes, written testimonies were gathered. Over time, prisoners would confess that, perhaps, the United States was not perfect. Perhaps also there were things to be said for the Communist way of doing things. Once these words were written down and signed, it becomes much more difficult for the prisoner to recant them later.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> Consider the male feminist to be a prisoner of war, and their behaviour makes a lot more sense.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> A person who checks their privilege in such a manner assigns greater value to the ideological cause because they have made the decision to publicly ally with it. Just as a prisoner of war can be encouraged to betray his own nation. This process comes with conflicts to be overcome; parental/filial disapproval, being a gigantic cuck forever, public scorn, and so on. The further you go into the ideological framework, the more affirmations you must make. Black Lives Matter. Trans Bathrooms Now. #TheResistance. Putting a little rose in your twitter bio, next to the snowflake and rainbow flag emojis. This is an initiation ceremony.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> <ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-8322488130801993" data-ad-format="fluid" data-ad-layout="in-article" data-ad-slot="2967118930" data-adsbygoogle-status="done" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 0px; text-align: center;"><ins id="aswift_0_expand" style="background-color: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-table; height: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 604px;"><ins id="aswift_0_anchor" style="background-color: transparent; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 0; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; visibility: visible; width: 604px;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="151" hspace="0" id="aswift_0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="aswift_0" scrolling="no" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 151px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 604px;" vspace="0" width="604"></iframe></ins></ins></ins></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> Without an initiation ceremony, groups are less worthwhile to us. We value groups for whom we have sacrificed. The USMC understands this. Greek letter fraternities understand this. Tribal societies in the Amazon understand this. English rugby teams understand this. Neo-Marxists understand this. When the squad performs press-ups while Private Pyle eats a jelly doughnut, this is the formation of a strong group bond within the squad, against Pyle. When the male feminist signals his virtue, he is participating in this same act.</div> <blockquote style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 30px 0px; padding: 50px;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; line-height: 34px;"> Look how many press-ups I am doing for you, Dryll Sergeant.</div> </blockquote> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> Look how virtuous I am, not like these Gomer Pyles who are not woke. God, look how they bully me online when I stand up for womyn. I watch The Young Turks. I re-tweet Shaun King. I read bell hooks, because her books are short, easy to understand and even easier to repeat for even more virtue points.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> This ‘good boy’ feminism is at the root of the problem for our future sex criminal. The reality is that in the end it is the male feminist who metaphorically splatters his brains all over the wall, and the men he sees as neanderthal schlubs who fly off to ‘Nam to participate in the great struggle of procreation and survival.</div> <div id="ld-5979-7226" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; max-width: 1000px;"> </div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> Shifting the self-image of a person directly affects how a person behaves. For example, I am affecting my own behaviour exactly in this way, right now. I adopt the persona of Ash Sharp, the writer. For now, that is the aspect of my personality construct which is present, in charge- the focus is on writing well. Therefore, I write these words for you to read. In this persona, I am sure that I am correct, or at least making a good argument, and so I overcome the self-doubt that concerns ‘me’ when putting work on public display. I gather this is a common technique.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> <a class="zoom fluidbox__instance-6 fluidbox--initialized fluidbox--closed fluidbox--ready" href="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*rVbSLR5FL6xLV_9UhgWRrw.jpeg" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 3px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"></a></div> <div class="fluidbox__wrap" style="background-position: center center; background-size: cover; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; position: relative; transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out 0s; z-index: 990;"> <a class="zoom fluidbox__instance-6 fluidbox--initialized fluidbox--closed fluidbox--ready" href="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*rVbSLR5FL6xLV_9UhgWRrw.jpeg" style="border-bottom: 3px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: black; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out 0s;"><img alt="img" class="fluidbox__thumb" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*rVbSLR5FL6xLV_9UhgWRrw.jpeg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 50px auto; max-width: 100%; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0s ease-in-out 0s; vertical-align: middle;" /><div class="fluidbox__ghost" style="background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 100% 100%; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: zoom-in; height: 355px; left: 0px; position: absolute; top: 0px; transition: opacity 0s ease 0.5s, transform 0.5s ease 0s, -webkit-transform 0.5s ease 0s; width: 722px;"> </div> </a></div> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> And yet male feminists still exist, for some reason.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> The male feminist adopts a far more uncomfortable mask, one that is impossible to maintain perfectly. The demands of feminist ideology are so high that no man can transcend his biological reality and become a <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">true</em>feminist. Failure under such circumstances is guaranteed, and, as we see so often, the penalty for failure is harsh.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> Whether it is social shame for speaking over a woman, or taking a job that a woman should have had, or any transgression from simply being a white person to actual criminal behaviour, the male feminist is utterly doomed.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> Should we then pity the male feminist? I don’t think so. While any of us can fall victim to seductive ideologies that claim to answer everything, we are also responsible for freeing ourselves. It is our individual responsibility to seek out learning, to ensure that we are men of character. A man of character is never a rapist because such behaviour is beneath him- it is for those who cannot control themselves, or who are genuinely evil.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 34px; margin-bottom: 1rem;"> A man of character is also not subjugated by ideology, as such ideas have been assessed, considered and found wanting. It is not so difficult a thing to achieve. It is far easier to accept the dominant paradigm pushed by feminism and Neo-Marxists. It is easier by far to accept that your penis is evil, and you must say sorry, and keep saying sorry, and grovel on your knees.</div> <h4 id="thisiswhyweakmenbecomemalefeministsthisiswhymalefeministsrape" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: stevie-sans, Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 1.4; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"> This is why weak men become male feminists. This is why male feminists rape.</h4> <div> https://republicstandard.com/why-do-male-feminists-rape/</div> </div> </div>

Why Do Male Feminists Rape?

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Church Nuns rape case

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="views-field views-field-field-bread-crumb-news" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #2a2828; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px;"> <span class="field-content" itemprop="articleSection" style="border-bottom: 3px solid rgb(187, 25, 25); box-sizing: border-box; color: #3e3a3a; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; padding-top: 8px; width: auto;">Nun rape case</span></div> <div class="views-field views-field-title" style="background-color: #f1f1f1; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; margin-top: 20px;"> <a data-url="/article/father-kuriakose-who-testified-against-bishop-franco-nun-rape-case-found-dead-90347" href="https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/father-kuriakose-who-testified-against-bishop-franco-nun-rape-case-found-dead-90347" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: default; margin-top: 20px; outline-offset: -2px; outline: -webkit-focus-ring-color auto 5px; text-decoration-line: none;"><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 36px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px 10px;"> Father Kuriakose, a witness against Bishop Franco in nun rape case, found dead</h1> </a></div> https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/father-kuriakose-who-testified-against-bishop-franco-nun-rape-case-found-dead-90347<br /> <br /> <br /></div>

Church Nuns rape case

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Chetan Bhagat articles

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/15243750.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst"><span style="font-size: large;">Home truths on career wives </span></a><br /> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 10.001px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <br /></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 10.001px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Recently, I saw the recently released movie, Cocktail. The plot revolves around a philanderer hero who has to make the tough choice between two hot women. The uber-modern movie was set in London. The characters drank, danced in nightclubs and had one-night stands with aplomb. They worked in new-age aspirational jobs like glamour photography, graphic art and software design. And yet, the guy eventually chooses the girl who cooks home food, dresses conservatively, wins his mother’s approval and is happy to be the ideal Indian wife. In fact, even the rejected girl, a </span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">free-spirited, independent woman </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">agrees to change herself. To get the guy, she is happy to cook and change her lifestyle to match that of the ideal Indian wife. </span><br /> <span style="background-color: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">While the movie was fun, such depictions disturb me a little. When successful, strong women are portrayed as finding salvation in making dal and roti for their husbands, one wonders what kind of India we are presenting to our little girls. </span><br /> <br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-regular1, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Really, is that what a woman’s life is all about — to make hot </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-regular1, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">phulkas</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">? Of course, i shouldn’t be so bothered, many would say. It is a Bollywood movie. The commercial pressure to present a palatable story is real. Above all, the makers have a right to tell the narrative they want. </span><br /> <br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-regular1, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Yet, when our most modern and forward cinema sinks into </span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">regressive territory</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">, it is unfair to our women. It is also depressing because deep down we know such attitudes exist. Many Indian men, even the educated ones, have two distinct profiles of women — </span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">the girlfriend material and the wife material</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">. One you party with, the other you take home. The prejudice against non-traditional women who assert themselves is strong. </span><br /> <br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-regular1, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Let us look at another part of the world. Yahoo, a leading tech firm and a Fortune 500 company, recently hired a new woman CEO, Marissa Mayer. What’s more, she was six months pregnant when she was hired, a fact she did not hide in her interviews. </span><br /> <div class="last8brdiv" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: proxima-regular1, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; width: 100%;"> </div> <br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-regular1, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Marissa will take some time off after childbirth and will be back at work later. She can manage both. There is something to celebrate about that. Marissa is a role model for women and even men.</span><br /> <div class="last7brdiv" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-regular1, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> </div> <br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-regular1, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /> <div class="last6brdiv" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-regular1, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> </div> <br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-regular1, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">I’d like Indian men to have an open mind about choosing their life partners and revise their ‘ideal woman’ criteria. Having a traditional wife who cooks, cleans and is submissive might be nice. However, choosing a capable, independent and career-oriented woman can also bring enormous benefits. For instance, one, </span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">a man who marries a career woman gets a partner to discuss his own career with</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">. A working woman may be able to relate better to organizational issues than a housewife. A spouse who understands office politics and can give you good advice can be an asset. Two, a working woman diversifies the family income streams. In the era of expensive apartments and frequent lay-offs, a working spouse can help you afford a decent house and feel more secure about finances. Three, a working woman is better exposed to the world. She brings back knowledge and information that can be useful to the family. Whether it's the latest deals or the best mutual fund to invest in, or even new holiday destinations, a working woman can add to the quality of life. Four, the children of a working woman learn to be more independent and will do better than mollycoddled children. Five, working women often find some fulfillment in their jobs, apart from home. Hence, they may have better life satisfaction, and feel less dependent on the man. This in turn can lead to more harmony.</span><span style="background-color: yellow; color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> Of course, all these benefits accrue if men are able to keep their massive, fragile egos aside and see women as equals. </span><br /> <div class="last5brdiv" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: proxima-regular1, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; width: 100%;"> </div> <br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-regular1, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /> <div class="last4brdiv" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: proxima-regular1, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; width: 100%;"> </div> <br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-regular1, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Sure, there are drawbacks also in being with working women. But the modern age that we are in, the </span><span style="background-color: yellow;"><em style="color: #333333; font-size: 18px;">phulka</em><span style="color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">-making bride</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> may come at a cost of missing out on other qualities. Please bear that in mind before you judge women based on their clothes, interest in the kitchen or the confidence in their voice.</span><br /> <div class="last3brdiv" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-regular1, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> </div> <br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-regular1, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /> <div class="last2brdiv" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-regular1, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> </div> <br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-regular1, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">My mother worked for 40 years. My wife is the COO at an international bank. It makes me proud. She doesn’t make </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-regular1, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">phulkas</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> for me. We outsource that work to our help, and it doesn’t really bother me. If my wife had spent her life in the kitchen, it would have bothered me more.</span><br /> <div class="last1brdiv" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-regular1, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> </div> <br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-regular1, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /> <br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-regular1, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">Please choose your partner carefully. Don’t just tolerate, but accept and even celebrate our successful women. They take our homes ahead and our country forward. We may have less hot </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: proxima-regular1, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">phulkas</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">, but we will have a better nation.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="font-size: 10.001px;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"></span></div> <h1 class="entry-title" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; clear: both; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 48px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0.3em; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://mommygolightly.com/2012/08/06/home-truths-on-non-career-wives-what-chetan-bhagat-ran-out-of-space-for/">Home truths on non-career wives: What Chetan Bhagat ran out of space for</a></span></h1> <div> <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/Dont-worry-Be-happy/articleshow/9237496.cms?referral=PM">dont worry, be happy</a></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; font-family: arial; font-size: 10.001px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://www.chetanbhagat.com/columns/five-things-women-need-to-change-about-themselves/"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"></span></a><br /> <h1 class="" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Muli; font-size: 1.875rem; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding: 0px !important; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.chetanbhagat.com/columns/five-things-women-need-to-change-about-themselves/">Five things women need to change about themselves</a></h1> <div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Muli; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Dear Ladies,</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Muli; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Happy Women’s Day! A lot is said on how men should change for us to respect our women better. Here are some: Men need to see women as people, not objects. Men should realize and truly believe women are as talented, capable as men, and sometimes even more so. Men should not discriminate in the work place or at home. Men have to respect boundaries and make sure their words to not make women feel uncomfortable. Men have to respect women’s choices – in what they wear, where they want to go and at what time. Men should never use force or intimidation towards women.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Muli; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Yes, we men have to learn. However, the stubborn, fragile and pampered Indian male ego is a tough nut to crack. Collectively, we as Indian men, have a long way to go before our women can be proud of us. We will. At least the process has started.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Muli; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Muli; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> But in all this well deserved male-bashing, I hope the ladies do not miss out on another set of changes required, on themselves. Yes, for all the talk of women being denied their proper place in society, ladies need to do some self-reflection too.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Muli; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Muli; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Hence, on this Women’s day, I shall attempt the unthinkable. As a man, I will venture out and give women advice, on women’s day. That alone is reason enough for me to be bashed to bits. However, every now and then, we men are prone to risk-taking behaviour. So forgive me, for I have dared.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Muli; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Anyway, here goes. Five things I feel women need to change about themselves, to make things better for their own kind.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Muli; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Muli; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> The first behaviour that needs to end is the constant desire to judge other women. Women are hard on themselves. They are harder on each other. An overweight woman enters the room. Most women are thinking ‘how fat is she?’ A working mother misses a PTA meeting due to an office deadline, others think ‘what a terrible mother she is’. A girl in a short skirt makes other women go ‘Slut!’ in their heads. A pretty woman’s promotion makes other women wonder what she had been up to to get the job. From an ill-fitting dress to a badly cooked dish, you are ready to judge others. This, despite knowing, you yourselves are not perfect. As a woman, it is tough enough is to survive in a male dominated world. Why be so hard on each other? Can you let each other breathe?</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Muli; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Muli; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Second, the faking needs to end. A common female trait is the relatively quick adaptation to feed male egos. Laughing at men’s jokes when they aren’t funny, accepting a raw deal in an office assignment or playing dumb to allow a man to feel superior are just a few occasions when you do your own kind no favor. Who are you? And why can’t you be that person? Why are you faking it so much? If something bothers you, say it. What’s the point of collectively harping on equality, when as individuals, you are happy to lapse into being clueless eye flutterers, just to keep men happy?</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Muli; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Muli; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Three, and this is serious, standing up for your property rights. Plenty of Indian women give up their lawful property rights for their brothers, sons or husbands. Sorry if it sounds harsh, but too many Indian women are emotional fools and need to be told so. You are not demonstrating your eternal selflessness when you give away your property. You are hurting your own kind.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Muli; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Muli; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Four, women need to become more ambitious and dream bigger. All young Indians – men and women, should have a fire in their belly. Perhaps the way the Indian society is structured, our women are not encouraged to be as ambitious as men. However, for their own sake and the nation’s sake, all Indian youth must have ambitions and aspirations to do well and reach their maximum potential in life. Many Indian women have done much better than men. Use them as inspiration and work towards your dreams. Your success is what will finally make Indian men respect women. Play your part.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Muli; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Muli; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> Five, don’t be too trapped in the drama of relationships. Relationships are vital. Being a good mother, wife, sister, daughter, friend and lover are extremely important. However, don’t get too tangled. You have another relationship, with yourself. Don’t sacrifice so much that you lose yourself. Not regularly, but just every now and then, be a little selfish. It is when a woman will assert herself she will be taken seriously. You are not only here to assist others in living their lives. You have your own life too.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Muli; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Muli; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> I will end here. Hope you will see the point and intention behind what I am talking about. If not, then I am in big trouble. And there’s no recourse to a men’s day to save me either.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Muli; font-size: 16px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <h1 class="media-heading h2" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 26px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin: 5px 0px; padding: 0px;"> <a href="https://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/The-underage-optimist/anatomy-of-an-internet-troll-how-social-media-birthed-a-strange-new-phenomenon-in-india-the-bhakts/">Anatomy of an internet troll: How social media birthed a strange new phenomenon in India, the bhakts</a></h1> </div> <div> <span style="background-color: white; color: #b3b3b1; font-family: "lato"; font-size: 12px;">July 11, 2015</span><br /> <span style="background-color: white; color: #b3b3b1; font-family: "lato"; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; height: auto !important; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%;"> The rise of internet and social media has led to a strange new discovery in India. It is the strong and distinctive presence of a cyber species often referred to as ‘bhakts’. The term is used to refer to owners of right wing user accounts who tend to be aggressive fans of all things Hindu.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; height: auto !important; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%;"> Politically they often lend their support to BJP, seen as a somewhat pro-Hindu organisation. They are extremely protective of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. They also like old Hindu kings and conspiracy theories about how Hindus were shortchanged in the past – they often swap such stories online.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; height: auto !important; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%;"> These true bhakts would have been an interesting anthropological phenomenon, had they not been causing distress from time to time on Twitter. A few years ago, Sagarika Ghose coined the term Internet Hindus when they attacked her. Just a couple of weeks back, members of the true bhakt species attacked outspoken women on Twitter who didn’t think much about the rather sweet and harmless ‘selfie with daughter’ campaign that was backed by the PM.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; height: auto !important; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%;"> So who are these true bhakts? What drives them? And what can we – and more important, they – do to calm them down? For this, it is important to understand them.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; height: auto !important; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%;"> One, these true bhakts are not just Hindu fanatics. They are not all VHP members. Some of them don’t even identify with the Hindu cause, they call themselves nationalists instead. Their stated aim, if you are to believe them, is nation building and winning back for India its lost glory.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; height: auto !important; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%;"> In reality, they are neither Hindu warriors nor nationalists. Typically, and at the cost of stereotyping, true bhakts have the following four traits in common. First, they are almost all male. Second, they have weak communication skills, particularly in English. This in turn leads to a bit of an inferiority complex, of not being cool or sophisticated enough in a fast changing, globalising world.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; height: auto !important; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%;"> Third, they are generally not good at talking to women. As a result they are unlikely to know how to behave with them or woo them. They do desire women, but can’t get them. In other words, if i may say so, they are sexually frustrated with no way of getting it.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; height: auto !important; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%;"> Fourth, there is an over-riding sense of shame about being Hindu, Hindi speaking and/ or Indian. Deep down they know that Hindi-speaking Hindus are among India’s poorest. They also know that India is a third world country with third rate infrastructure and few achievements on the world stage in science, sports, defence or creativity.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; height: auto !important; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%;"> To hide this shame, they over-compensate in terms of chest-beating nationalism. Also, to them, BJP leaders and Modi in particular represent the highest aspirational figures. Modi is unabashedly from the Hindi/ Hindu/ modest-means background and represents the best people like them can be.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; height: auto !important; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%;"> Modi’s success gives true bhakts a genuine reason to rejoice and feel that they have a place at the top. Hence, protecting him is vital. Therefore, you have seen true bhakts defending Modi’s silence on various scams and vigorously attacking anyone questioning the PM. Objectivity is lost when the person they are trying to protect and worship is seen as an idealisation of their own kind.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; height: auto !important; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%;"> Hence, an inferiority complex ridden Indian male who is sexually frustrated, ashamed of his background and has poor ability in English is vulnerable to transforming into a true bhakt. And that’s why confident, English-speaking women who oppose Modi hit a raw nerve on all counts and get the worst of the true bhakt treatment.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; height: auto !important; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%;"> Since social media allows anonymity, their anger expresses itself as the worst personal abuse. Note that BJP never invited these true bhakts to worship them. In fact the PM had to tell them off, as even he seems to have had enough of their hyper-aggressive bhakti.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; height: auto !important; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%;"> Of course, at the end of the day, easy votes are welcome and BJP doesn’t mind them. However, BJP must distance itself from this unrestrained testosterone. What seems like support starts to look unsavoury pretty soon and cements the hard line image of the party. Ultimately, the Indian voter will get scared and go back to its default party – Congress. There’s a reason Congress ruled for 60 years and BJP has just about crossed six.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; height: auto !important; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%;"> Meanwhile what can we do? The best strategy is to not take true bhakts too seriously. Of course, it is difficult to ignore personal abuse. But try to understand their motivations. They are not Modi bhakts; they are simply Frustrated And Complex-ridden Indian Males (FACIMs, pronounced fai-kims, not to be confused with the curse word you may want to use on them). Of course FACIM doesn’t have the same ring to it as bhakt, but it is a more accurate descriptor.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; height: auto !important; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%;"> To FACIMs themselves i would only like to say this. Smarten up, learn English and practise it. Make some female friends and ask their advice on how to talk to a girl. When confident, try to ask someone out and date her like a gentleman. Who knows, you may get lucky soon. Once you do, trust me, you will have better things to do than abuse on Twitter. Good luck!</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b2b2b; font-family: Lato; font-size: 16px; height: auto !important; margin-top: 20px; max-width: 100%;"> -----------</div> <h1 _ngcontent-c1="" class="content-hed standard-hed" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: TriviaSerif, Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 3.5rem; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.03rem; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px;"> <a href="https://www.cosmopolitan.in/life/news/a8577/chetan-bhagats-letter-women-actually-incredibly-offensive-feminists">Chetan Bhagat's 'Letter To Women' is Actually Incredibly Offensive to Feminists</a></h1> <h2 _ngcontent-c1="" class="content-dek standard-dek" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Sofia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.5rem; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: -0.03rem; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0.625rem;"> News flash: Condescension ISN'T help.</h2> </div> <div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> Recently, Chetan Bhagat wrote a piece that's being touted as a high form of empowering feminist literature. However, as an ardent feminist, I felt the need to break down his spiel, piece by piece, and expose it for the sexism-steeped ball of condescension it actually is. I can only hope other women (feminist men and women in general, really) see my point of view by the end of this rant.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Alright, this is not cool at all. A recent survey by Nielsen has revealed that Indian women are the most stressed out in the world: 87% of our women feel stressed out most of the time. This statistic alone has caused me to stress out. Even in workaholic America, only 53% women feel stressed.</em></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> Really, Chetan? Not cool? I'm so terribly sorry you're stressed that I'm stressed. That makes everything much better. Now that YOU'RE stressed, this statistic actually <u data-redactor-tag="u" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">matters. </u>Interesting, also, how your knowledge of labour laws in this country (far less people-serving than union-run USA) doesn't help you get a handle on how—when a country can replace you with 300 people waiting to do your job cheaper and faster—the stress levels are likely to be far more than in one where the concept of specialisation—and overtime—exist.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"What are we doing to our women? I'm biased, but Indian women are the most beautiful in the world. As mothers, sisters, daughters, colleagues, wives and girlfriends - we love them."</em></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> <span class="redactor-invisible-space" data-redactor-class="redactor-invisible-space" data-redactor-tag="span" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">​As long as we're all easy on the eye, AmIRite, ladiezzz?</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Can you imagine life without the ladies?"</em></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> <span class="redactor-invisible-space" data-redactor-class="redactor-invisible-space" data-redactor-tag="span" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">​Hell, no! Who would dance in the item numbers and get whistled at at bus stops? Plus, where would dinner come from?</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"For now, I want to give Indian women five suggestions to reduce their stress levels."</em></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> Oh. My. God. You condescending p#!@k. The very <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">fact</em> that you think Indian women are gasping for <u data-redactor-tag="u" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">your</u> suggestions on how to fix our lives and reduce our stress levels (a subject on which I'm SURE you've recently pronounced yourself an expert, as you have in the past with Indian politics and reality show dancing) is the most stress-inducing, *sshole-esque thing you could say.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"One, don't ever think you are without power. Give it back to that mother-in-law. Be who you are, not someone she wished you would be. She doesn't like you? That's her problem."</em></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> Right. Because, outside of my mother-in-law not liking me, there's little that could be troubling my pretty little head. You may say you're only working with a single example (and that I ought not to generalise, like a silly woman), but I <u data-redactor-tag="u" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">love</u> the fact that that's the example you went with. To quote Ronan Keating, "You say it best when you say nothing at all."</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Two, if you are doing a good job at work and your boss doesn't value you—tell him that, or quit. Talented, hard-working people are much in demand."</em></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> What a gloriously, over-simplified view of how the world works—free of responsibility, insecurity, and risk. Not everyone has this degree of nauseating overconfidence, I'm afraid, Chetan. I won't even get into the assumption that my boss is a 'him'–but heck, we're just a bunch of beautiful, mother-in-law servicing units, aren't we?</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Three, educate yourself, learn skills, network - figure out ways to be economically independent. So next time your husband tells you that you are not a good enough wife, mother or daughter-in-law, you can tell him to take a hike."</em></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> There's a running thread in your words, Chetan. You're not only speaking to a wedded woman at <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">all</em> times, you're speaking to her from the perspective of her service value. You speak as though my roles of being a mother, or wife, or daughter-in-law define me. Not once does my being a 'woman' come into it, really—a fact, which, if you understood us at all, you'd realise supersedes all that. Besides, talk to me from a pedestal is <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">still</em> talking down, however helpful you may've convinced yourself you're being.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Four, do not ever feel stressed about having a dual responsibility of family and work. It is difficult, but not impossible. The trick is not to expect an A+ in every aspect of your life. You are not taking an exam, and you frankly can't score cent per cent (unless you are in SRCC, of course). It is okay if you don't make four dishes for lunch, one can fill their stomach with one. It is okay if you don't work until midnight and don't get a promotion. Nobody remembers their job designation on their dying day."</em></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> The sad thing is, I actually think he <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">thinks</em> he's on our side. However, his sexism is so nuanced and seeps into every pore of this letter, it's inevitably offensive to any woman who knows it's not our job to put <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">any </em>dishes on the table for dinner—that's bloody conditioning that a large segment of Indian men <u data-redactor-tag="u" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">still</u> can't shake—and that it's our <u data-redactor-tag="u" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">prerogative </u>to want an A+ in anything we choose to do. That, to be legitimately thought of as equal, we'd <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">split</em> making dinner with our husbands, as well as juggle the days either of us works till midnight. That is,<em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> if </em>we choose to get married at all.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Five, most important, don't get competitive with other women. Someone will make a better scrapbook for her school project than you. Another will lose more weight with a better diet. Your neighbor may make a six-dabba tiffin for her husband, you don't—big deal? Do your best, but don't keep looking out for the report card, and definitely don't expect to top the class. There is no ideal woman in this world, and if you strive to become one, there will be only one thing you will achieve for certain - stress."</em></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> Sigh. A simple 'there's no ideal <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">person</em>' could've fixed this verbal tragedy. The fact that you keep repeating that I don't <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">need</em> to succeed, to be promoted, to top the class or get As is you asking me to lower the bar for myself. Telling me that aiming to be the best I can be will have only <u data-redactor-tag="u" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">one </u>result—stress—is you essentially slapping my fight against a patriarchal world in the face. 'Stress' be damned.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"So breathe, chill, relax. Tell yourself you are beautiful, do your best and deserve a peaceful life. Anybody trying to take that away from you is making a mistake, not you. Your purpose of coming to this earth is not to please everyone. Your purpose is to offer what you have to the world, and have a good life in return. The next time this survey comes, I don't want to see Indian women on top of the list. I want them to be the happiest women in the world. Now smile, before your mother-in-law shouts at you for wasting your time reading this article."</em></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> The pompous-ness of this last paragraph is fairly self-explanatory. Number one, again, I don't appreciate being spoken to like a sullen child who's stolen a biscuit. "I don't want to see this behaviour" is <em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">downright demeaning</em>—regardless of what spirit you mean it in. Empowering me by speaking to me like you're two seconds away from ruffling my hair and sending me onto the playground is something no woman is bound to appreciate. </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> Also, go ahead. Tell me to worry about pleasing my mother-in-law <u data-redactor-tag="u" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">one</em></u> more time.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> <span class="fbUnderline" data-redactor-class="fbUnderline" data-redactor-tag="span" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em data-redactor-tag="em" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">"Cherish Womanhood."</em></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> <span class="fbUnderline" data-redactor-class="fbUnderline" data-redactor-tag="span" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Yeah....bugger off. </span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> <span class="fbUnderline" data-redactor-class="fbUnderline" data-redactor-tag="span" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; letter-spacing: 0.34px;"> <span class="fbUnderline" data-redactor-class="fbUnderline" data-redactor-tag="span" data-verified="redactor" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div> <br /> <figure class="featured-image" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 1em 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></figure><br /><br /> <br /> <header style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: "Droid Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1280px; orphans: 2; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><h1 style="box-sizing: inherit; font-size: 2em; line-height: 1.42em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 3.5em; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://scroll.in/article/740738/is-chetan-bhagat-attacking-bhakts-to-protect-sales-of-his-books">Is Chetan Bhagat attacking bhakts to protect sales of his books?</a></h1> <h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #555555; font-size: 1em; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px 3.5em; text-align: center;"> How to explain the bestselling author’s diatribe against the very people who could be his primary readers?</h2> <div> scroll.in </div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Never underestimate the intent of Chetan Bhagat’s pronouncements or dismiss them as mindless. The man who has shown India how to write to a market and be outrageously successful knows his customers better than most people do.<br /> <br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /> Whatever the mega-bestselling author of the number series of novels (<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Five Point Someone, One Night…, Two States</em>…, etc.) writes in his columns, therefore, can be assumed to have an objective. They are not just expessions of hubris from a successful public figure with, possibly, political aspirations in the future.<br /> <br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /> On the contrary, there is always method in what appears to be the madness. But what, in this case, could his objectives possibly be? On the face of it, is he not taking the sword of contempt to the very audience that laps up his books?<br /> <br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /> <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Abusing his audience?</span><br /> <br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /> After all, “an inferiority complex ridden Indian male who is sexually frustrated, ashamed of his background and has poor ability in English” seems to almost perfectly describe the primary male hero in each of his novels, except that his portraits are sympathetic rather than derisive. And his millions of readers identify so strongly with these characters that they breathlessly read the stories of their eventual triumph, represented in the form of that pair of trophies identified pithily by Bhagat himself earlier: <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">naukri</em> and <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">chhokri</em>.<br /> <br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /> So, why would Bhagat risk alienating potential readers? We don’t know, but we can guess. Whether through market research or native intuition, Bhagat has a remarkable insight into the personalities and emotional needs of a large swathe of young Indians, which he channels with broad strokes into his novels. If he is turning against the bhakts – or FACIMs, as he calls them, using an unattractive acronym for Frustrated And Complex-ridden Indian Males – it is because he deliberately wants to distance himself from them.<br /> <br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /> And the reason could be simple: he is ensuring he remains on the side of the growing segment of young India that does not identify itself with the abusive intolerance spouted by these self-proclaimed nationalists and champions of the Hindu faith. As in any other country passing through economic liberalisation, social and personal change have lagged behind financial change, but it is catching up now.<br /> <br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /> As a result, the upwardly mobile – in aspirations more than accomplishments, in dreams more than reality – young men and women whom Bhagat targets may well wonder whether their favourite writer is sympathetic with the right-wing mob, given his own clearly stated preference for the right-wing brand of politics. Now, this aggressive attack – typical of the writer’s style, really – will assuage their fears.<br /> <br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /> <span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Mollifying the women's constituency</span><br /> <br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /> It’s not just the men. Bhagat is probably being particularly careful in protecting his constituency of women readers, for the objects of his attacks have painted themselves in a starkly misogynistic light on social media. And the writer in Bhagat knows only too well that he cannot afford to make an enemy of women. At least, of those of them who swear by his books.<br /> <br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /> Don’t forget, the women characters in Bhagat’s novels are superficially quite unlike the bhakts: they come from privileged backgrounds, are fluent (stretching a point) in English, and very clear about their sexual choices. Sure, peel off the skin and you will find the same orthodoxy and acknowledgement to patriarchy, but then Bhagat, like Indian TV soaps, is a purveyor of wish-fulfilment drama, not a change agent. Nor, importantly, are his readers.<br /> <br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /> What does all this tell us about his next novel, then? Continuing with the speculation, the forces represented by uncouth voices could appear in the plot as something that the hero must encounter and overcome. Bhagat has written about riot mobs before, and not in a positive vein. If he senses a growing antipathy to the tribe of people he has attacked, he may well want to capitalise on it in his fiction. Don’t forget, Bhagat rubs shoulders with Bill and Melinda Gates, not with those who label people as <em style="box-sizing: inherit;">haramzaada</em>s.<br /> <br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /> This is not to rule out a political motive behind Bhagat’s statements. But be sure that he will never say or write anything that will jeopardise his relationship with his current and potential readers. Because, like it or not, Chetan Bhagat has cultivated a way of trendspotting that many writers should be envious of. Just that the trends in question are often more regressive than progressive.</div> <div> <br /> Tweets :<br /> <br /> <div class="js-tweet-text-container" style="color: #14171a; font-family: "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> <div class="TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--jumbo js-tweet-text tweet-text" data-aria-label-part="0" lang="en" style="font-size: 27px; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 32px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <a href="https://twitter.com/chetan_bhagat/status/659962069849083904?lang=en">What do historians do? I am genuinely curious. This happened. Then this happened. Then this. Ok work done for the day.</a></div> </div> <div class="js-tweet-details-fixer tweet-details-fixer" style="color: #14171a; font-family: "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> <div class="client-and-actions" style="clear: both; margin-top: 10px;"> <span class="metadata" style="color: #657786; line-height: 24px; overflow: hidden;"><a href="https://twitter.com/chetan_bhagat/status/659962069849083904?lang=en">10:46 AM - 30 Oct 2015</a></span></div> <div class="client-and-actions" style="clear: both; margin-top: 10px;"> <br /></div> <div class="client-and-actions" style="clear: both; margin-top: 10px;"> <div class="js-tweet-text-container"> <div class="TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--jumbo js-tweet-text tweet-text" data-aria-label-part="0" lang="en" style="font-size: 27px; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 32px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <a href="https://twitter.com/chetan_bhagat/status/9717745447?lang=en">I now pronounce myself the thinking Indian woman's lust object. Those with IQ<80, plenty of sixpacks floating around. Go stare.</a></div> </div> <div class="js-tweet-details-fixer tweet-details-fixer"> <div class="client-and-actions" style="clear: both; margin-top: 10px;"> <span class="metadata" style="color: #657786; line-height: 24px; overflow: hidden;">11:42 AM - 27 Feb 2010</span></div> <div class="client-and-actions" style="clear: both; margin-top: 10px;"> <span class="metadata" style="color: #657786; line-height: 24px; overflow: hidden;"><div class="js-tweet-text-container" style="color: #14171a;"> <div class="TweetTextSize TweetTextSize--jumbo js-tweet-text tweet-text" data-aria-label-part="0" lang="en" style="font-size: 27px; letter-spacing: 0.01em; line-height: 32px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <a href="https://twitter.com/chetan_bhagat/status/1051693050290823169">A person’s reputation is their most prized asset and takes a lifetime of work to earn. To have these motivated, fake attacks on me is abhorrent and the sickest thing a person can do. Please don’t support this kind of smear campaign.</a></div> </div> <div class="js-tweet-details-fixer tweet-details-fixer" style="color: #14171a;"> <div class="client-and-actions" style="clear: both; margin-top: 10px;"> <span class="metadata" style="color: #657786; line-height: 24px; overflow: hidden;">10:05 AM - 15 Oct 2018</span></div> </div> </span></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div> <br /></div> </header></div> </div> </div>

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