Tales of Real Wimps, Part 1

(Blogging has been difficult owing to an excess of real work...Begging forgiveness)

Introduction and presentation of Wimp Number One

(Remember: wimp rhymes with limp)

Intro

Every now and then, amidst all the blood, gore and imbecility generated mostly by the male of the human species (90% of the prison population, for instance), one comes across a genuine key to what plagues this Blue Planet of ours. It stands out as a glistening gem of backwardness, of cowardice, of mind-boggling ignorance. This series is never-ending, since the sheer stupidity of men – I am referring to the two-leggeds whose reproductive organs hang out – is apparently never-ending as well, though I do not believe that it is necessarily genetic. The weaker, more insecure these men are, the more they try to oppress women, and the more they show their wussiness, their parochialism, their utter lack of genuine masculinity.

Women have done a great deal of work over the centuries to actually survive men, and in the past 80 or so years, their hard struggle to seek a form of equality has burst to the fore in myriad ways and has produced laws to promote equality. Why should the obvious require a law, I wonder? For a very good reason: Men still think they are superior to women and they still fear that women wish to clamber up onto their “high” platform to share some ephemeral glory. I am not sure that this fear is justified. I believe women would like to have their own platform and enjoy a rich communication with men. But I may be wrong here or simply generalizing to vigorously.

Anyway, that is some of the background to my little series, which hopefully will give some food for thought, maybe raise some issues…

Big books

Yes, religions in this series will get their fair share of broadsides, of course, since much of the evidence shows that the world’s major religions seem to have been devised with the sole aim of oppressing women. And here I would like to distinguish the spirituality of these religions. The fountainhead of many of these movements has been a deeper quest to understand the human existence and its purpose, if any, in the Universe. This spirituality has often been stolen and perverted by narrow-minded and power-hungry men, who then went on created wrathful, bigoted gods in their own image, gods with a bullhorn and an Excel sheet, noting down every little violation of some provincial little law designed not by any invisible being, but rather by power-hungry slobs who, not being able to feel their oats by their own merits, have decided to impose them by some other means. And anyone violating this alleged divine law is then sent to some ghastly gallows, hacked to bits, burned up on an iron frame, pulled apart, eviscerated, buried in sand, lapidated.

And women have often been the victims of male hatred of life, of beauty, of freedom, of otherness.

"God's" will, apparently...

Real wimps from the land that gave us Tantric practices

In this gallery of real wimps, let us begin with this group from India: Sri Ram Sena, which apparently translates as “the Army of Lord Ram.” Ram, of course, is a proper name, not the animal. Let us remember these glorious males, who feel offended, threatened and humiliated by the plain fact of some women showing up for a drink in a bar. Ram's soldiers then proceeded to attack them, chase them, bully them. The details are well-known by now, the link below has a fairly good description of the events. Obviously, these glorious half-studs have a profound fear of women. But rather than advertise the fact, if I were in their shoes, I would go see a shrink or some other spiritual healer.
Pramod Muthalik, boss of Ram's special forces, did apologize, presumably because the embarassing incident shot around the world thanks to the Web.... He added a "but," namely that his group of wimps was protecting Hindu womanhood ("women and girls"), thus emphasizing the fact that his emotional development has remained stuck in the same groove for the past 40 years or so. I am not quite sure this fellow, who was born in 1963, has understood anything, and if that hasn't happened yet, it is time for him and his followers to abandon hope.

Exhibit N for nipple

Let us remind his silly little army of troglodytes, that women are different but equal to men, and that we men were all conceived as women originally, which is why they have nipples. We become men a little later by a mechanism that should be perfectly explainable. Though I suspect that through sheer mental laziness or deficiency, some men would prefer to believe that a mysterious being at that point has pulled out the Excel sheet again and has determined that the creature will become male (i.e. first-class citizen), or female (i.e. tenth-class citizen, cleaner-upper of male messes). Let me suggest, as well, that women do much of the work that is keeping India in shape, that is keeping children clothed, educated, sheltered, fed and protected, in spite of men, rather than with their much needed help. What are these men idling about in a bar for anyway? Is that helping women, Mr Muthalik? If the army of Lord Ram wants male companionship only, there are clubs where old British colonels get together, alternatively Alcatraz or a similar institution. As mentioned above, you find a lot more men behind bars than women.

And if they really want to help Hindu women, I am sure there are hundreds of ways of doing that, they just have to ask some women's organizations, of which there are hundreds. I might suggest lobbying for better schools, for more and equal pay, for proper workplaces, for labor laws, for a little wealth-spreading. Or simply investing in the house and home rather than spending money in some idiotic male-only bar and wasting time acting like pre-adolescent twits.

For more on the subject, try one of the NYT blogs The Lede

(PS: I agree with Ms Ghose about Valentine, but simply because I find these marketing fests are offensive. I have nothing against a feast of love.)

I see a rich crop of entries....