Full video: Patriarchy - the role and suffering of men || Acharya Prashant, at AIIMS Nagpur (2022)
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00:00We take feminism as a bit of men versus women thing, women trying to get away from oppression
00:10and being victims, victims of men.
00:13So we take men as the victimizers, right?
00:16Apparently, obviously, men are the ones who exploit and oppress.
00:20But if you go a little deeper into it, as Vedanta encourages you to, you will say, no,
00:25it's not that men are oppressing women.
00:29There is a common enemy and the name of that common enemy is ignorance.
00:34It is because of ignorance that men continue to be men and women continue to be women.
00:40The fact is that as human beings, your nature is pure consciousness.
00:45Why do you call yourself man?
00:46Why do you call yourself a woman?
00:48Why have you made the body so important for yourself?