The Things Feminists Got Wrong

8/8/21

 #MeToo India was a resounding success according to feminists. On social media and networks there are hoards of Indian women who are proponents of Western feminism or to be exact American feminism. In 2018 a lot of well known Indian men came under the radar of #MeToo India and lives of those who couldn’t afford the damage were destroyed. The powerful got away with all they had done as it is always. What I am about to do here would be considered “mansplaining” by some or if I assume it right, by many feminists but I am actually not writing this post for them so technically it won’t apply.

The latest fad in the current generation of Indian feminists and their “simps" is to trash old Indian and to be precise “Hindu" scriptures which is in accordance with their American counterpart’s revenge fuelled version of activism. In USA as much as it is visible on social media, there is an activism of revenge going on, the film dialogue that clearly describes this phenomenon is “baap ka dada ka sabka badla lega re tera Faijal". The ability to sense context and intentions in a statement are getting extinct faster than a Dodo.

American feminism maybe a necessary movement or may not be so necessary a movement. A person living in India can’t be sure about that but the impact it is having on Indian women and their thoughts is totally irrational. The Indian torch bearers of feminism have imported the whole philosophy and ideology without making an effort to make it suitable to Indian culture. The truth however is that the proponents of Western feminism (and not women empowerment) don’t give two hoots about Indian culture and society and like their philosophy their goal too is revenge fuelled and power grabbing one which can’t be termed wrong at least in the Darwinian sense. I would have considered the 2018 #MeToo a success if it kept functioning even after ruining the reputation of a few well known men or if it worked to provide justice for women from the lower social order than the women who orchestrated this whole hullabaloo. But as we can assume #MeToo India was by the privileged for the privileged. Probably it was to induce fear in the hearts of men who were slaves of their libido and were too entitled or loose in front of women, and it did work but I don’t think it worked beyond them. A ‘woman problem' has been the end of many a men in history whether it was related to feminism or not. Accuse someone of “harassment” or “molestation” and see their goodwill collected through years of hardwork go down the drain. That’s how it was and that’s how it is. The real joke is that this #MeToo never saw the light of day in the lives of women of lower classes who generally never complain but are in the most dire need of some kind of intervention or support. There are a lot of women who work tirelessly for these deprived classes but their name will never be visible in the limelight because they don’t do spoken word poetry or because they don’t have she/her in their bio. There is a way to ascertain how serious these western feminism inspired feminists are for their cause, just ask them are they ready to work on ground for the women of war-torn Middle-East, the Kurdish and the Yazidi women. I am sure you will find the feminism melting away with this one question with a lot of them, the ones who are ready are the real ones, but then there is no other way to test their reality other than putting them on ground. A lot of these “western feminists" are just entitled crybabies or just too lazy revenge driven individuals who like their American counterparts assume atrocities on women without having any way to ascertain them. The past was patriarchal, it can be assumed, but what could be done that the future could be made better minus the hate filled propaganda these individuals indulge in as it only makes the future worse and in the words of such individuals 'toxic’. In the olden days people used to play their defined gender roles and majority still does so and there is no reason to think and believe that they shouldn’t do so. There is a more important thing that sensible men or women should do. There are actual women who work on ground for women empowerment and for justice and equality of women who actually need help. The biggest contribution to Indian feminism would be to recognise these women and support them as they work for the women who are actually in need.