People have fully forgotten the meaning of Marriage. As we can see divorce court is increasing. Still some woman's are kept in cage.No equal rights yet. Yes we should accept that life started in that way but still it continues even after thousands of decades. I was going through some article and wanted to share that with u. The History of mankind which has created this horrible society, and forefathers who did not had any other option at that time. Even its not fare to criticize them.
but now i hope we can change these things. But the question is when ??
Here is the beautiful history of our culture!! which has created this worse condition globally.
Marriage was started with some promises to have a guarantee that the woman who loves you is going to love you forever, that it is not a temporary affair.Man settled for marriage because that was the only way to have private property.
Olden days it was only hunting and No storage system, no technology. As there was nothing to accumulate, there was no question of marriage.People lived in communes, tribes(Now ppl forget their origin and start hating tribes) , people loved, people reproduced, but in the beginning there was no word for "father." The word "mother" is far more ancient and far more natural. You will be surprised to know that the word `uncle’ is older than the word "father" because all the people who were the age of your father.you didn’t know who your father was. Men and women were mixing joyously without any compulsion, without any legal bondage, out of their free will. If they wanted to meet and be together there was no question of domination. The children never knew who their father was,they knew only their mother. And they knew many men in the tribe, someone amongst those men must have been their father, hence they were all uncles.
They started understanding that with hunting, man could not survive long. People have destroyed complete species of animals. man has eaten them up. Something had to be done because hunting was not reliable. Today you may get food, tomorrow you may have to be hungry.The search for animals did not allow man to develop any of his other talents. started cultivation which changed the whole life of man.
The woman was confined she was not able to go hunting. Most of the time she was pregnant, she was weak, she was carrying another soul within her. She needed care, protection. so she was living in the house. She started making the living space more beautiful and this you can see even today, after thousands of years. The home, the village, the city and the whole civilization are because of the woman, as she was free from hunting. Also she was not at all interested in hell and heaven and God and the devil and all that crap! (which destroys the mankind now).
Man continued in busy hunt, and As woman was idle in home she started looking around and came up with cultivation, seeing wild fruits growing, as rain comes and it repeats after certain period.
Here again problem, There were powerful people and weak people. The people who were physically powerful managed to claim much ground as their property. They earned much... slowly, slowly the barter system started, because when you have too much of one crop, what are you going to do with it? You have to exchange it; then you can have many more things. Life became more complex, with more excitement.
But a problem was felt after a person dies, who is going to inherit his property? Nobody wanted their property to be inherited by any XYZ. They wanted their property to belong to their own blood.
This is because man had to agree for marriage.... The woman was very willing for the simple reason that for thousands of years in the hunting period she was not financially a part of the society; man was all. Man continued his power, although the whole social structure changed. The hunter’s nomadic life became a peaceful life in a village but man’s concern about his property.... He wanted a contract with the woman to be certain that the son she was giving birth to is not somebody else’s, but his own. For this simple purpose all the woman’s freedom had to be destroyed. She had to live almost like a prisoner.
Man agreed under compulsion, he compromised. If the woman was losing a few things her freedom of movement, her freedom in changing lovers man was also ready to sacrifice his freedom. They would remain devoted to each other forever.
So new problems started arising. Men started finding prostitutes who were no-one’s wives, the prostitute was the wife of the whole town. She belongs to anybody, she is a commodity; you have to pay and buy her time and her body. Because of marriage it was very difficult to find married women because then there were more complexities: they had their husbands.If she is most beautiful girl born in that city. It was not right to let her get married to one person, she had to be shared. She was so beautiful that if she got married there would be trouble, there would be problems people would go on falling in love with her. It was better to keep her
free for anybody who would pay.
Marriage created suspicion. The husband was always suspicious about whether the child born to them was his own or not. And the problem is, the father had no way to determine that a child was his own. Only the mother knew. Because the father had no way of being certain, he created more and more walls around the woman that was the only possibility, the only alternative to disconnect her from the larger humanity. Not to educate her, because education gives wings to people, thoughts, makes people capable of revolt, so no education for women. and man cannot conceive a woman to be higher and holier than himself.
Man has been cutting from the very roots any possibility of woman’s growth. She is just a factory to manufacture children. She has not been accepted by any culture in the world as equal to man.
No changes even after these many years.. When will this change ??
October 13, 2009
Marriage ( --- ) Feminism
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Good history of Marriage... it shows as why we settled for marriage.....
but i think if the marriage is not there .. it is very diffcult for me .... as i am not strong .......
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