Gendered Cages || Acharya Prashant

Full video : What We Get Wrong About Feminine and Masculine Values | Understand Women

Transcript

00:00If the woman is caged in the house, why don't you want to say that the man is caged in the office?

00:04Why is only the home or the nest the caged?

00:07Why is the high-flying Ivy League MBA not caged in the MNC office?

00:13Tell me, please.

00:14If the woman is actually so hell-bent, so insistent on leading the kind of life you're talking of,

00:23will she let it remain easy for the man to fly away?

00:25She will say, I want to remain trapped and I let the man fly away.

00:30And that too, when the man is the provider of the nest.

00:33If the man is allowed to fly away, who will provide for the nest?

00:37So do not think that it's easier for men to fly away.

00:40Men might keep imagining and smiling that we'll fly away one day.

00:44The woman has other plans.