Violating the male Brahmchari deities’ personal space is like male rape
The entire Sabrimala controversy has arisen because our nature worshipping society has forgotten its own roots and has acquired a leftist/ secular view of spirituality — when the leftist ideology does not understand or accept the validity of spirituality at all, and equates it with the concept of god/ religion prevalent in Abrahamic religions.
It not only acquires this misinformed and misplaced view, but also imposes it upon Indians calling their ageold, harmless — even healthy practices, unacceptable.
This, coupled with the fact that we’re living in an increasingly anti-man, westernized world.
Let’s get a few things right. Women do not have the right to infringe upon men’s rights … at least, they should not have … or, in this case, upon men’s spaces. And, Sabrimala is essentially a men’s space — even if its in the spiritual domain. In today’s world, we are made to believe that women (or any group favoured by the liberals) have unlimited rights, even to infringe upon the rights and spaces of the others … and whosoever points out the limit is demonized.
It’s perfectly natural and valid to have social spaces that are men only and women only. Leftists, including feminists (both men and women) want to destroy the men’s spaces, in the garb of promoting women’s rights. But, abolishing men’s spaces is actually a means to subdue men rather than to liberate women. Through this men lose their independence and become totally dependant upon women for all their needs — from social, emotional to physical needs. Men’s spaces are destroyed through a process called ‘heterosexualization’ of social spaces, customs, etc.
Ironically, these forces of heterosexualization have no issues with women only spaces.
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Now, “Hindu” concept of ‘god(s)’ is not the same as that of the Abrahamic religions. Rather than a dictating single god, we have deities, that are a reflection of our own existence. Various deities represent various facets of human existence. These deities are living, thriving and reacting entities, that respond to environmental and social situations — just like humans. And, the spiritual practise of keeping women out of the sanctum sanctorum of Sabrimala and other Brahmchari spaces, is a reaction to a social process that started long, long ago, during the evolution of human civilization.
At the dawn of human civilization, humans lived in men’s only and women’s only spaces. There was also a third gender space, but that is not important here. Men and women met briefly for reproduction, but, they both led independant social lives for most of the time.
Then, societies started pressuring men to join enmasse into reproduction process through the controlled institution of marriage. To tie men into this new institution, it was important to break them from their male bonds, which used to be very precious to them. While women could meet their important drive to procreate and raise their children in this institution, men were required to lose their freedom, to leave their men’s spaces and bonds. They had little to gain from the institution of marriage, and so were offered several privileges and powers to compensate — something that the feminists refer to as a patriarchal society.
The society left little choice for men to refuse this arrangement, as marriage/ reproduction /sex was cunningly tied to manhood, and refusing to reproduce/ marry would deprive men of their social manhood and make them outcasts — the same treatment that the new society was meting out to the third genders. But, unlike the third genders, social manhood is a matter of life and death for men.
But, not everyone would submit to the institution of marriage — no matter the outer powers it bestowed upon men. Men fought back and managed to create a substantial social space for themselves, within the mainstream, and more importantly for men, still within the folds of manhood — a space where they would not have to marry or be sexual with women (or do it only as per their will) to prove their manhood. This was the spiritual and often the warrior space. The two often combined in ancient cultures, where warrior spaces were also spiritual spaces — we see a hint of them in modern pehalwani akharas.
Thus, Brahmcharya (which is not exactly the same as the western practise of celibacy) became an honoured mainstream way of life. It became a respectable tradition in itself, and men from all walks of life joined. In fact, all virtuous men were expected to be Brahmchari till marriage.
Men’s spaces devoid of women were crucial for maintaining Brahmcharya, because, as per the revised manhood rules, if a woman asks you for sex, and you deny her, you would be deemed impotent and thus a non-man/ third gender and an outcast.
To be able to perform his spiritual practices without these social pressures, which have been maginfied several folds today, it was important that women not be allowed into Brahmcharya spaces.
The women, too — although, they were much more liberated than today’s narrow minded feminists/ leftists — had no qualms about respecting these spaces, as they cherished their own women-only spaces. (they still do).
The deities too followed these social developments, and, thus we have various deities in Indian ‘mythology’ who follow Brahmcharya, and like they did with Brahmchari men, women respected the Brahmcharya of these deities as well.
Sabrimala is only one such spiritual space.
To violate this personal men’s space is to violate men — its like rape. But, the modern western society thinks nothing of male rape, as men’s bodies are not supposed to have any sexual value.
But, just as the western, leftist forces connive to attack and destroy all men’s spaces, through their heterosexualization, they cannot tolerate a Hindu spiritual deity/ space, that so in-your-face, challenges its power and authority.
Women not permitted into the shrine of a Brahmchari deity is far less oppressive than men not being allowed into metro coaches meant only for women (while women are free to be in coaches available for men). These double standards are symptomatic of the anti-man leftist forces that want the best of both worlds — at the cost of men. They want to preserve men’s spaces but do not want men to be independant of women.
In contrast, in the ancient world, even with the marriage institution, men were not forced to be socially, emotionally or sexually dependant upon women, like they are in westernised societies.
In the west the feminist/ leftist fight to infringe the privacy and dignity of men has gone too far. Women have not only entered army, they are allowed free access to men’s changing rooms, where they are often naked — as cleaners, as journalists and