Why Patriarchy Persists? || Acharya Prashant

Full video: Feminism and Vedanta || Acharya Prashant, at AIIMS Nagpur (2022)

Transcript

00:00Not only men, but also women have had a stake in patriarchy.

00:05Think of it, if half of the world's population decides to disown something,

00:10decides to rebel against something, can the thing still stand and continue and flourish for so long?

00:17It just cannot.

00:18Further, this is not a phenomenon that's local to one part of the world.

00:23We cannot call it merely a cultural thing.

00:26We cannot call it an accident happening at some place due to some reason.

00:30So there has to be a way to come out of this system.

00:36Because we do not have a proper name for the way to come out of the system

00:43that puts us in the bondages of a biological relationship between the man and the woman.

00:50Therefore, we call it feminism.