It is history’s worst kept
secret. It is kept secret so sacredly that if it came out, it could destroy the
very nature of life that flows on earth. And yet, it is everywhere. You see it
daily, you feel it quite often. But you must deny it. You must forget it. You
must destroy it.
For some time I have wondered why
women hated men for nothing but just because men were men. If you do not
believe they hated, you would either never realize it or else it will come to
you at some point of your life. The ‘hatred’ is plain irresistible. To the
extent that women have often fallen in love with the men they hated. It is
captured in history and in the literature of all times. It is just that it is
so subtle and the realization so revolutionary that it could mean to destroy
all things we believe in and hence it was better to be denied – to be turned blind
eyed to.
I think the roots of this hatred
go into some very basic stuff. Men are seen as ‘free’ – free of burdens which
women necessarily and inescapably have to carry. It is not only the womb,
although it pretty much is almost all of it; or enough of it. The child bearing
capacity which is often glorified, celebrated and worshipped in all religions
and cultures for obvious reasons, at some level of the female psyche turns into
a burden. Why should men get away without it? That is the million dollar
question. And then it is not only about it. I don’t know if it is only because
of female hormones, which has been repeated in such a simplistic manner in
modern scientific world, that we come to think of it and hence divert our
attention from the female folks, but women feel the kind of vulnerability and
insecurity which no men ever feel. Men can never imagine and guess what women
feel. And hence they pay the price for not knowing their enemies well…
Women know that they are weak and
need to be dependent on men in some way or the other – and they ‘hate’ it at
some level of their psyche. Women hate men’s guts and confidence. There is no
horrible scene for a woman than to see a confident and happy man. Such a man
represents everything that the women not are – and can never be – and hence
they must hate it. Put in this way you may think that women may hate the idea
of a man than the man himself. I will not object to it but whenever they see a
man – the idea manifests into a shape and they must hate that shape – that creature
– that monster – that something which they can never be – that man…
History of the mankind is the history
full of hatred which could not always get chance to manifest into something
concrete. It is really a miracle that for so long you could avoid getting stung
by that hatred. Or, did we?
© Rahul.
