Stop corrupting your daughters || Acharya Prashant, with MMMUT (2023)

Acharya Prashant

Full Video: How should India raise its daughters? || Acharya Prashant, with MMMUT (2023) Link:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pL7RyM9qaE&t=0s   Video Information: 11.02.2023, MMMUT Gorakhpur (Online), Greater Noida  Context: ~ Why aren't Indian women not in many key roles? ~ How to empower women in India?  ~ Why are there severe gender gaps in income in India?  ~ Why is gender-based discrimination a big problem in India? ~ How to educate our daughters?  ~ Where is our standard of beauty coming from?   Music Credits: Milind Date ~~~~~

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00:00 It's quite interesting, you know, garments even for four-year-old girls are more expensive

00:12 than those for four-year-old boys.

00:17 It's as if both the parents and the girl are being messaged that the girl's worth lies

00:31 in her body and therefore her garments.

00:36 Otherwise physically a four-year-old girl and a boy are much the same, I mean almost

00:42 the same.

00:45 How can there be a difference, so much difference in their garments and in their pricing?

00:56 And I also fail to understand how is it that, of course the bodies are different, but not

01:06 so different.

01:07 We simply blow up the differences.

01:12 It will never be intelligible to me why must girls have such long hair.

01:18 I understand there are differences in height and in build and after puberty the differences

01:27 get amplified also.

01:30 All that is all right biological, but why must those differences be exaggerated so much?

01:40 And you are training her to be body-centric, do you see that?

01:49 What is lip color?

01:52 What are all those things that are gender-specific?

01:55 How exactly do they translate into beauty?

01:58 These are very fundamental questions mankind should ask.

02:05 At least parents, they must ask themselves these questions.

02:09 Why must a responsible mother ever introduce lip gloss to her daughter?

02:16 Is that not very very violent of her to introduce the daughter to lip gloss or to costumes that

02:29 are very feminine?

02:31 The girl hardly requires them, right?

02:39 See I am not talking about suppression of sexuality.

02:46 Let sexuality be a celebrated thing in life and all that is okay.

02:51 I am talking of turning someone body-centered at a very young age when she does not even

02:59 know what she is going through.

03:03 As a mature adult, you are free to discover your sexuality, experiment with it, enjoy

03:11 it, celebrate, do whatever you want to.

03:13 All that should be done with wisdom when you are mature.

03:17 But when you are a girl and your question is how should India raise its daughters?

03:23 When you are in that phase when you are being raised, a very very responsible person should

03:30 be hemming all this.

03:33 Unfortunately most parents are themselves in need of self-knowledge and education, life

03:41 education.

03:42 So the way they treat their kids, especially their daughters, is pretty horrible.

03:53 So the way boys and girls are differentially introduced to sports and all the little cues

04:12 that girls keep getting, little but continuous, continuous.

04:24 Their very seats at the dining table, who is supposed to help with the dishes, who is

04:34 supposed to go outdoors to play, who is supposed to have the guns and who will have the dolls,

04:48 who can walk around topless even at the age of 7 or 8.

04:54 7 or 8, the bodies are not so different.

04:59 But even if the girl is 7 years of age and she is on a beach, the mother will probably

05:06 ask her to not go topless.

05:10 And that's not about strangers prying on her.

05:14 Even if there is nobody on the beach, the mother will say, "Oh you please cover up".

05:19 So all that turns the girl very body-centric and that plays havoc with consciousness.

05:31 A caricature she turns out into with no appetite for anything sublime.

05:42 The body becomes a toy, the body becomes a weapon and the mind becomes numb.

05:54 The result of all this is stupidity.

05:59 And then you have the caricature of the dumb blonde.

06:04 Right?

06:04 [Music]

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