Full video: Patriarchy - the role and suffering of men || Acharya Prashant, at AIIMS Nagpur (2022)
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00:00See, patriarchy is a great bondage.
00:03Patriarchy is a state of mind.
00:05And what is that state of mind?
00:07Patriarchy is to believe that your job in life is determined by your gender.
00:13That is patriarchy.
00:14Now, patriarchy is oppressive both ways.
00:17Men have been told that your purpose, your station, your movement, your activities, your thoughts, your emotions, everything
00:24have to be determined by your gender.
00:26And women have been told much the same thing, right?
00:29So, it's not men versus women.
00:32It's wisdom versus ignorance.
00:34Obviously, men are the ones who exploit and oppress.
00:37But if you go a little deeper into it, as Vedanta encourages you to,
00:41you will say, no, it's not that men are oppressing women.
00:45There is a common enemy, and the name of that common enemy is ignorance.
00:51It is because of ignorance that men continue to be men and women continue to be women.