“Women are much more powerful than men,” Rahul Gandhi said as he went on to offer a surprise aikido lesson to the students of St. Teresa’s College in Kochi.
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00:00Society treats you very badly in India. It insults you every single day. It doesn't let you do what you want. It attacks you. Women are much more powerful than men.
00:16As this is a women's college, can you teach us some self-defense techniques for us?
00:23Now? I mean you're making me do strange things but I can show you an Aikido principle that you can use in your life.
00:30Look up. Don't worry. You remember pushing this hand up. You look forward and put your chest down.
00:39You have to push it forward. Look up. You keep looking down.
00:44Now stand up. Lean more forward. Look here. Look at me. You have to make the triangle.
00:52This has to become a triangle. Make a triangle. Exactly.
01:00Now put it up. Keep your head up. Push. Lean forward more. Push into it.
01:10Push. Push. Push.
01:24What do you think of that? She is not tough. No. She is not. She is using your strength.
01:40Now that's Aikido. Society is going to push you. I'll be very blunt.
01:51Society treats you very badly in India. It insults you every single day.
01:57It doesn't let you do what you want. It attacks you. So you have to get a strength from inside.
02:05And for that you have to understand the way you're being pushed. Understand the forces that are hurting you.
02:14And then position yourself properly. Do you say a woman is stronger than a man or weaker than a man?
02:20They are equal. Are they equal? Yes. Of course they are equal.
02:25I will tell you a secret that men will never tell you. Women are much more powerful than men.
02:32They are fooling you. But I will still say they are equal. No. They are not equal.
02:39Women are much more powerful than men. There is a problem. Women do not understand their power.
02:49They do not understand how their power works and where their power comes from.
02:54And that is the whole point of empowerment.