Originally posted by: laksh
You know me, men or women doesn't matter to me, only their actions matters to me.
The role reveral question is an interesting one and I probably have an unpopular opinion about it.
Please don't misunderstand any of my below statements, it is not be applicable to all. It is not to hurt anyone's sentiments.
It is my general observation and knowledge. I have seen it and have also heard it from friends, family, neighbourhood, classmates, colleagues and so on.
"Are we more sensitive to women's pain than men. If there was a role reversal and if Virat had done this would will we still, applaud him? "
I don't think so. To be frank I have found many women to be more strict and harsh on other women. I am not sure if you know or if you would be surprised by this.
If there was a role reversal and Sai had ousted Virat, the audience would hated Sai much more than they are hating Virat now. The trp audience would be the first ones.
Before I write, let me tell you that I don't believe in judging people. I always believe only in trying to understand a person or a character.
The reasons I said that women to be harsh on other women are that :
Many have old school thoughts, very orthodox and believe in them strongly. They would not support people like Sai. This includes many young women as well.
They themselves would have gone through a lot, through misery and they always weigh the other person comparing with the misery they go through. This happens not only with women, men also do this. They would not want to give credit to another guy or his family member as much as he deserves it, because he thinks that he deserves much more. So getting harsh on another person has become very common, they give more weightage to their own work, struggles and pain.
In India, in many households, as you would know, there is abuse going on by in laws and by husbands, emotional, verbal or physical as well. Abuse happens in many other countries. But I am talking about our country because it is an Indian show, not because of the audience, because it is more relatable.
Now even if we discard people who are at the worst situation, there are people who are better off but even then would compare their pain with another person's pain.
If a girl goes through a hardship and has established herself, she would compare herself against Sai and feel Sai could have done better, and would feel Sai is lucky.
A girl who have or don't have inlaws at all, will still feel Sai is in a better position because Virat loves her, does special things for her which her husband fails to. So something that is missing in her life is seen in Sai's life, the rest of her struggles are ignored.
A girl whose dream was stopped after marriage, looks at Sai as a girl who is lucky.
A girl who has has no one to support her, is all alone and is suffering will look at Sai as a lucky girl.
Some also look at what their siblings go through. I have noticed many falling under this category in real life when women judge other women on harsh scales. They have so much sympathy towards their brothers that they turn blind eye to almost all women's pain sadly.
But these doesn't happen much with men. Because they hardly think about these things. If at all they weigh, they would only look at their success and question their worthiness. They are competitive.
Whatever I have said above, happens with family too. For instance, if a family is going through a lot of struggle, another family would neglect it thinking that they had gone through much more struggle. I don't know if it is a human tendency to weigh and compare one's happiness, pain, struggle, hardwork everything and it is becoming more common these days sadly.
What they should be doing is to look at that person, the individual and all the parameters surrounding the individuals before assessing them, not at all by comparing it with themselves or their siblings or their friends.
Empathy is kind of getting lost these days. I hear a lot saying, so what, my other friend had to put up so much more, this is not a big deal. Or sometimes, so what atleast his mother is getting pension, I know a lady who has no source of income at all. So what atleast she has got married to a good looking single guy, in another case, though the girl is youngs and beautfil, they got her married her to a dvorcee with 2 kids.
So as long as such mentality exist, with role reversal Sai would have been hated by many more than people who are hating Virat right now. Just my view. It is probably due to the fact that for some, "grass is greener on the side".
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