I hate how patriarchy has even ruined Hindu mythology so specifically to benefit the men.The casual jokes on family WhatsApp groups about how Mahabharat and Ramayan, the worst wars of all time, were fought because of a woman and how women bring ruin everywhere they go,as if they are the root cause of all suffering. Where in fact the women were LITERALLY the victims, one was publicly humiliated, the other kidnapped.The men have misinterpreted the stories so badly that it physically pains me, god went to war not because of women, they went to war FOR them.Because what happened to the women was WRONG,they werenβt to blame, the ones who wronged them were.
I also see a major polarisation in how a huge section of Hindus treat Sita and Draupadi, and it reminds me of the quote βa woman has to do everything right for her to be a victim and a man has to do everything wrong for him to be a culprit.βIt breaks my heart at the number of times Iβve heard men say βwell Draupadi shouldnβt have disrespected him,aise toh hona hi tha na firβ,first and foremost,thatβs an inaccurate narrative promoted by wrong retellings who need to constantly find a reason to blame the victim,she did no such thing and you can find pretty much evidence for it everywhere.But even if she had, it does NOT make it okay for them to publicly disrobe her.This is one more example of the victim blaming culture that I see deep ingrained in the minds of so many of these Hindus who have absolutely no respect for their culture.So next time donβt go to ram mandirs and krishna mandirs if you canβt even truly understand and respect the relevance behind their existence.
