A psychological study of the male dominated society.
In a society which is fast changing and it is impossible to keep up, we have a major intolerance and inability to accept change , and that results In a major action shift like that of the khap panchayat.
There is a. Theory of cognitive dissonance which applies here.for years Ina repressed , male dominated society, there has been a way of life. Correct or wrong, it has been accepted by all the people. As humans we want to avoid the labour of thinking as much as possible. We hate ambiguity and confusion, hence if it has been happening this way, it is right, and if it is right it should continue this way. Male members take the decisions, woman do the household work, they sit when told to sit and stand when told to stand. The eldest MALE member of the family takes all the decisions,everyone accepts it, no ambiguity. If you do not have anyone to question the decision, or an opposition or a voicing of a contradictory point of view, how can you be wrong.
It is also not the male members fault as he does not know when he is wrong, and once he feels he is right a couple of times, then according to him he is right always.
Now with the change in society, where he is being bombarded with information, widespread media coverage, the internet and education all around, he is feeling threatened.
He sees woman succeed in all fields, woman with lesser clothes doing more than he can, woman taking the stand for different reasons, you have them on TV, board rooms , behind the wheel, he is all confused.
His mind says that his beliefs are correct and his eyes say something different and this confusion leads to PANIC.
Here is where the theory of cognitive dissonance comes into play. The theory says that when there is a confusion, the mind will bend the existing reality in such a way as to resonate with the existing beliefs.
As we know , man cannot stand confusion, and needs to put his mind at rest as soon as possible , it will take the easiest route to re affirm his beliefs, hence kill the couple, ban jeans and cellphones, or anything to get rid of the problem. The root is not important, but immediate remedy is , like antibiotics, kill the symptom.
so if a girl and boy are in love, kill them and problem solved.
Now to justify actions to oneself, you can have any excuse like family honour, same gotra etc. it doesn't matter, as long as mind is at rest and you can sleep peacefully.
Seeing the above explanation, we can see that this knee jerk reaction to panic is applied Ina number of situations.
Whenever you question someone's faith on religion, or a particular god, once the confusion or panic sets in, it leads them to get angry, violent , abusive and even mass destruction steps.
Do we have a solution for this? I don't know . But now we know the problem , I know we can reach the solution.
Or can we?.
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In a society which is fast changing and it is impossible to keep up, we have a major intolerance and inability to accept change , and that results In a major action shift like that of the khap panchayat.
There is a. Theory of cognitive dissonance which applies here.for years Ina repressed , male dominated society, there has been a way of life. Correct or wrong, it has been accepted by all the people. As humans we want to avoid the labour of thinking as much as possible. We hate ambiguity and confusion, hence if it has been happening this way, it is right, and if it is right it should continue this way. Male members take the decisions, woman do the household work, they sit when told to sit and stand when told to stand. The eldest MALE member of the family takes all the decisions,everyone accepts it, no ambiguity. If you do not have anyone to question the decision, or an opposition or a voicing of a contradictory point of view, how can you be wrong.
It is also not the male members fault as he does not know when he is wrong, and once he feels he is right a couple of times, then according to him he is right always.
Now with the change in society, where he is being bombarded with information, widespread media coverage, the internet and education all around, he is feeling threatened.
He sees woman succeed in all fields, woman with lesser clothes doing more than he can, woman taking the stand for different reasons, you have them on TV, board rooms , behind the wheel, he is all confused.
His mind says that his beliefs are correct and his eyes say something different and this confusion leads to PANIC.
Here is where the theory of cognitive dissonance comes into play. The theory says that when there is a confusion, the mind will bend the existing reality in such a way as to resonate with the existing beliefs.
As we know , man cannot stand confusion, and needs to put his mind at rest as soon as possible , it will take the easiest route to re affirm his beliefs, hence kill the couple, ban jeans and cellphones, or anything to get rid of the problem. The root is not important, but immediate remedy is , like antibiotics, kill the symptom.
so if a girl and boy are in love, kill them and problem solved.
Now to justify actions to oneself, you can have any excuse like family honour, same gotra etc. it doesn't matter, as long as mind is at rest and you can sleep peacefully.
Seeing the above explanation, we can see that this knee jerk reaction to panic is applied Ina number of situations.
Whenever you question someone's faith on religion, or a particular god, once the confusion or panic sets in, it leads them to get angry, violent , abusive and even mass destruction steps.
Do we have a solution for this? I don't know . But now we know the problem , I know we can reach the solution.
Or can we?.
Sent from my iPad
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