According to a recent research, in choosing a partner, beauty is the key ingredient for men while women, the much choosier of the sexes, leverage their looks for security and commitment. Surprise! Surprise!
It's really a tough deal. All women have to do is look good which is, trust me, easier than all the stunts men have to go through. Men have very little to fall back on and have to spend most their lives proving to women that they're good enough. Women really exploit all their power very well and frankly speaking do very little proving... Hypocrisy!
Throughout history men have had to do some really ridiculous and dumb things to win over women. I mean can anyone explain me the need to break Lord Ram to break Shiva's bow? or for Arjun to hit the eye of the fish looking at it's reflection to win Draupadi? What kind of a match making service was that!
Emperors winning battles and sacrificing tens and thousands of people to impress their woman is probably the worst kind of marriage proposal I can imagine. I just killed 12 tigers, 2 elephants and wrestled a 400 pound monster... Will you marry me??
I believe that some or all of these quite disturbing activities prove that the man could provide security and was ready for commitment. That's my conclusion not my opinion. I dont know how breaking bows, killing tigers, winning battles equates for matrimonial eligibility! And the more beautiful the lady, the harsher the punishment... I mean the tasks to be accomplished.
Nowadays we're down to more reasonable demands. Single child, dead parents preferably, inherited wealth, party animal, having nice degrees to hang in the living room (brains are added bonus), green card etc. The list is endless but not as tough as killing animals etc. So on behalf of all men, Thank you, Ladies!
However the misery doesn't end here... Lets go back to when Lord Ram was in exile. Sita had appealed to kill a golden deer which she saw as she wanted to, I'm just guessing, stitch some stuff out of it's skin. Which also tells us Sita was really hooked up on the designer chic clothing despite being in exiled. Much hasn't changed since then. Anyways... But as expected Lord Ram went after that deer haplessly.
He may be an incarnation of God but he was first a husband at that time. And no matter how ridiculous the demand seemed to a rational mind he set forth to hunt down the deer and get it for wifey dear! In that one action he proves that he was no mere mortal. I mean... golden deer skinned top? What was she thinking?!
Every guy I know, me included, would have spent the next half an hour arguing the need for a deer skinned top, would've spent the next 2 days gifting stupid stuff just to make her normal again and the rest of the life listening to taunts that You-never-do-anything-for-me!
We all know what happened next. His wife was abducted. He had to befriend monkeys. He had to invade some innocent island folk. He had to travel a distance of some thousand kilometres. Talk about punishment! He was really up against it both ways. That was what happened to Him, in an era when Sita actually went into exile with Ram.
So extrapolating it to fit in today's scenario... Scary stuff! It's not easy being a man...
Cheers!
It's really a tough deal. All women have to do is look good which is, trust me, easier than all the stunts men have to go through. Men have very little to fall back on and have to spend most their lives proving to women that they're good enough. Women really exploit all their power very well and frankly speaking do very little proving... Hypocrisy!
Throughout history men have had to do some really ridiculous and dumb things to win over women. I mean can anyone explain me the need to break Lord Ram to break Shiva's bow? or for Arjun to hit the eye of the fish looking at it's reflection to win Draupadi? What kind of a match making service was that!
Emperors winning battles and sacrificing tens and thousands of people to impress their woman is probably the worst kind of marriage proposal I can imagine. I just killed 12 tigers, 2 elephants and wrestled a 400 pound monster... Will you marry me??
I believe that some or all of these quite disturbing activities prove that the man could provide security and was ready for commitment. That's my conclusion not my opinion. I dont know how breaking bows, killing tigers, winning battles equates for matrimonial eligibility! And the more beautiful the lady, the harsher the punishment... I mean the tasks to be accomplished.
Nowadays we're down to more reasonable demands. Single child, dead parents preferably, inherited wealth, party animal, having nice degrees to hang in the living room (brains are added bonus), green card etc. The list is endless but not as tough as killing animals etc. So on behalf of all men, Thank you, Ladies!
However the misery doesn't end here... Lets go back to when Lord Ram was in exile. Sita had appealed to kill a golden deer which she saw as she wanted to, I'm just guessing, stitch some stuff out of it's skin. Which also tells us Sita was really hooked up on the designer chic clothing despite being in exiled. Much hasn't changed since then. Anyways... But as expected Lord Ram went after that deer haplessly.
He may be an incarnation of God but he was first a husband at that time. And no matter how ridiculous the demand seemed to a rational mind he set forth to hunt down the deer and get it for wifey dear! In that one action he proves that he was no mere mortal. I mean... golden deer skinned top? What was she thinking?!
Every guy I know, me included, would have spent the next half an hour arguing the need for a deer skinned top, would've spent the next 2 days gifting stupid stuff just to make her normal again and the rest of the life listening to taunts that You-never-do-anything-for-me!
We all know what happened next. His wife was abducted. He had to befriend monkeys. He had to invade some innocent island folk. He had to travel a distance of some thousand kilometres. Talk about punishment! He was really up against it both ways. That was what happened to Him, in an era when Sita actually went into exile with Ram.
So extrapolating it to fit in today's scenario... Scary stuff! It's not easy being a man...
Cheers!
1 comment:
Oh..you poor things... :-D
but the mythological forefathers and mothers i might add did have some really wierd whims and fancies...
good one!
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