A brief🧡about how patriarchy hurts men too, especially men who don't fit its stereotypes.

#feminism #genderequity #genderbiases #partiarchy
Most people (both men/women) don't seem to get it that some men are more at peace with the rhythms of everyday domestic life. We need to stop looking at it as an emasculation of a man, just as we shouldn't look at a woman prioritizing career as missing a "womanly" instinct. 1/
Through the archaic ideas of what a man/woman should be, we've trapped some (many?) men into roles they positively hate, just as we've trapped (and this percentage is much larger than the former case, I'm sure) many women in domestic roles, their temperament is not suited for. 2/
The result is that we've pitted men against women. We've demarcated spaces as "men's vs women's" spaces. For instance, as we've relegated women to kitchen, we've made the kitchen a women's space, in return too. 3/
Men stepping there is seen, even in this day and age, by many, as they entering a women's space, and men are judged for it, and worse, their spouses are judged for "making" them enter it. 4/
A distant relative of mine was a cook in a hotel, more than three decades back. I've heard him being referred to as "baaylya" (an effeminate man), by his own extended family. These terrible stereotypes hurt men too. Gender equality is not just abt women's empowerment. 5/
It is also about men's empowerment -- it empowers them to take on roles that are looked down at by society if men do them, especially, in the domestic spaces. Feminists understand this a lot better than the MRA types, and patriarchal wo/men instinctively opposed to feminism. 6/
In fact, this constant pitting of women against men is done by those who have vested interest in the patriarchal status quo (again not just men, as this includes women who have made a deal with patriarchy for an indirect power in the long term). 7/
The two sexes, like castes, have been divided, and individuals in either who do not conform to the stereotypes of each, are made to pay a price. Again, I don't want to minimize the price that women pay -- it's a lot steeper and more pervasive. 8/
But this is to throw light, on the price (including shaming) that some men have to pay too, under the patriarchy, and why MEN need to rebel and join the ranks in the fight against that system, not fight against women trying to fight patriarchy, not men.
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