even the most leftist man you know is a man end of the day?
Question: What do you think about this? Should one trust leftist men?
All of you know how dire the situation is for women in India and All of you also know Gandhi. He's supposedly our father of nation (honorary title, not by law). Leftists in India idolise him as their godfather because of his principles of ahimsa (non-violence). The Indian Left often questions societal norms and women's safety measures while conveniently ignoring what their so called mahatma's ideology was.
Mr. Gandhi advocated for women in disobedience movements yet he firmly believed women belong in the kitchen and that their primary work is nurturing children and taking care of home. He believed a woman cannot be harassed is she possessed enough moral and spiritual strength.
He is also infamous for his widely known celibacy experiments with his female acquaintances and his own granddaughters, abha and manu. Mind you both of his granddaughters were teens when he did this. To prove that he had enough self control, he slept naked with multiple women.
A lot of people do not that Gandhi was racist too. He believed and wrote to the brits that they should treat Indians better than South Africans because Indians are better than blacks.
Mr. Gandhi also opposed modern contraceptive methods and believed women should resist their husbands instead of using contraception.
His own wife, Kasturba, was gravely ill due to malaria but he denied any sorts of modern medicine to her and made her stick with ayurveda until she died of the illness. Months later when he himself caught malaria, he was treated with modern medicine. Funny how he dodged ayurveda immediately when it came to his life.
Indian leftists conveniently ignore all of this and worship him like he's a god. They defend him with their lives. Funny how these are the very people I thought were feminists and balanced with morals and ethics. It wasn't until yesterday that I realised even they care about us when it supports their narrative.
ps. I'm not saying the right is feminist or that right treats women better. The right wing in India hates us. But I didn't even expect these morons to be feminists.
I'm disappointed that even the left doesn't care about us considering the fact that feminism is a leftist ideology.
sources for all my claims:
His articles Harijan and Young India.
https://sanger.hosting.nyu.edu/articles/gandhi\_debate/
https://www.mkgandhi.org/journalist/birthcontrol.php
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-49848645
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/jan/27/mohandas-gandhi-women-india