They have been conditioned to believe that being a breadwinner and bringing fame and success to their family name is their responsibility. But even with such men, we have to ask, who must the blame lie with? For centuries men have been treated as the superior gender by our patriarchal society. This is not to say that there aren’t men who are insecure, controlling and wouldn’t shy away from playing the gender card to assert their dominance in a relationship. The question that comes to my mind is, is it fair to make a generalised assumption about all Indian men? Isn’t it stereotyping of a similar kind that women have been trying to break free of, for decades now? Surely there must be men who are as secure as Emhoff, but we may never get to know about their feminist outlook simply because they are not married to a Kamala Harris, who is a household name now. Are Indian men the insecure and jealous type, who cannot even entertain the idea of being married to a successful woman, let alone cheer for her success? Or are they simply too shy or conscious to say it out loud, being conditioned since childhood to never wear their emotions on their sleeves? Or does the reality lie somewhere in between and beyond?
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