Deracination - Kolams, muggus, rangolis and Gender.

#Deracination

When village girls joyfully making muggus/ kolams/ rangolis before the home every morning is seen as Patriarchy, and the girls are informed that they are oppressed.  

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Manage

Jayshree Shukla Ok. Let me ask from a city slicker's point of view...why are the boys not making them as well?  :-)

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 · 5 January 2017 at 23:37

Manage

Aparna Krishnan Gender differances are not always gender discriminations.  :These girls spend the afternoons trying muggus and enjoying themselves, those little fellows are lost in goli. One girl will join up with them sometimes, just as one boy wanders here to learn kolams.

Mohammad Chappalwala Gender is a social contruct sex is biological

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 · Reply · 5 January 2017 at 23:49

Manage

Mohammad Chappalwala And hence can be challenged where there is opprrssoon

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 · Reply · 5 January 2017 at 23:50

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Aparna Krishnan To see oppression where there is none is sometimes the lot of activists sold to theories that colour their viewing. In time and grounding the truth is eventually seen, despite our notions. But one needs to invest that time among and with the community one wishes to speak of, or speak for. 

Manage

Siva Vats Not only gender and sex but the concepts of society, world, body, sex and ego are also only mental constructs in human mind. They disappear in pure awareness of deep sleep. Awake intellect challenges many concepts after identifying with any one concept and not the others. Intellect argues against concept of oppression and creates arguments. Understanding smiles at the ignorance of the arguing intellect.

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 · Reply · 6 January 2017 at 03:53

Manage

Shyamala Sanyal Seriously, Aparna Krishnan , boys are given no duties , responsibilities, training , discipline. 
They turn out oppressive and exploitative and have an enlarged sense of entitlement. 
Women are overburdened with rules , duties , responsibilities, codes .
Some sharing is necessary. It's all rights and no duties whatsoever

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 · 6 January 2017 at 07:54

Manage

Aparna Krishnan yes. deeply entrenched in many ways. in all classes of society. and in all qualifications - maybe even more so in the 'educated'.

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 · Reply · 6 January 2017 at 08:00

Manage

Aparna Krishnan but in the case of this post - its the usual activist seeing oppression where none exists !

Mohammad Chappalwala The oppression is not in the making of muggu

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 · 6 January 2017 at 08:21

Manage

Aparna Krishnan the post is about muggus :).

Mohammad Chappalwala The oppression is elsewhere due to patriarchy and these gendered roles thus seen in benign things. You could have a society without patriarchy and some rolrs shared beyween the sexes

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 · Reply · 6 January 2017 at 08:22

Manage

Aparna Krishnan that there are power issues between castes, classes and genders is a givem. but to pull every simple reality to fit into that is a problem that deracinated urban ideologues have. i see more and more of urbans preaching and labelling. i wish they would focus on their unlivable cities - but the rural are softer and politer targets i suppose.

Rishi Verma Who are the meddlers poisoning them?

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 · Reply · 6 January 2017 at 10:21

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Shanmuganathan Subramanian Deracination

Young Widow jumps into the dead husbands' pyre. City women's clubs raise hue and cry that she must have been remarried.

All race except human race is an illusion.

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 · 6 January 2017 at 10:31

Manage

Aparna Krishnan It needs roots and grounding to understand what must be opposed and what is valid. Thank you.