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Power Inside Women | Onkar K Khullar | TEDxTheNorthCapUniversity


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today in this room a lot of people are
going to get offended so small
disclaimer to all of them the world is
not black and white but all the colors
of the rainbow today I am dressed up as
Shiva and Shakti because Indian
mythology talks about it as the ideal
form of equal ism between a man and a
woman today it’s not about feminism it’s
about equal ism about all the colors of
the rainbow how many of you must have
seen an alpha male like a typical mother
hindi may K Thomas I’m Marco Darden
Anita that is a myth that does not exist
there is nothing like a hundred percent
man or a hundred percent woman this they
can be eighty percent man and twenty
percent of feminine energy in everyone
all of you in this room have a feminine
energy inside of you some have it more
and some have it less you might find a
girly girl on one end but on the other
you find a tomboy you might find a woman
who has facial hair that’s how God made
her unique but that doesn’t mean she’s
not a woman she does not have feminine
energy inside of her this feminine
energy allows us to empathize more
create more
and even have a wider perspective all of
you must have this one uncle in your
family who must have used this line that
this does not happen in our time like
hamare time pay asana he mutata
a common compliment comment most of the
girls over here get are you going out
dressed like this and this uncle would
turn up our daughters are always fully
covered whereas our men are always
portraying their body a second comment
which most of the girls get are you
drinking or do you drink and this uncle
would turn up our girls they don’t drink
but I men are always hung over at one
place or another and the most common one
do you have boyfriends are girls no boys
but are men playboys
a very common comment so I was in the US
this year and I attended something
called as a pride parade and there I got
something which I call which they call
as a pride shades and suddenly
everything changed because at that
moment I realize the world is not black
and white it’s all the colors of the
rainbow so please whenever you meet this
uncle of yours
please hold both of your hands and tell
him that the world is changing that
women are not only leaving their house
their cities their countries but they
have left the planet as well they have
gone into space our soul does not have a
gender it’s not male or female No
it has only one gender that’s human the
future does not lie in the domination of
one gender over another but in the
fusion of both the genders working women
metrosexual men gender fluid fashion
house husbands and even pregnant men
ladies and gentlemen these are not
innovations no but just cause of less
censorship of the media and more
Connection we are able to see all these
possibilities which always existed in
our society the purpose of life is to
create something that outlasts it human
animals can only create babies but
humans can create their art form music
company building whatever they want they
can create them and for this we don’t
just need laws no we need a gender-fluid
system most of you must be thinking how
is it possible how when I was born my
grandparents wanted a girl at that
moment I was rejected at birth and I
realized how a woman actually feels
being rejected at birth rape a very
common topic nowadays but as men we will
never be able to empathize it a woman
being raped by four men is a serious
issue but a man being raped by four
women is still a joke we’ll never be
able to understand and in return the
argument which we give is that cause
you’re wearing short clothes or you’re
going out in the night that’s why you
got raped so next time if somebody gives
you this comment I want all of you in
this room to do this to them one hand
like this I want everyone to have their
right hands like this right hand like
this and left one like this
in sign language it’s called or
goober yes why am I saying this most of
you must be thinking last year I was
attending an event when a man came up to
me and it was daytime and he flattered
me with his compliments literally
flattered me and the next moment he told
me oh god can I sit with you during the
event I was like great please do during
the event his hand was on my tie he kept
on caressing it and I kept on telling
him sir I’m not interested in men sorry
but he said I can’t control myself I
just hope for the event to get over
because at that particular moment I felt
like a woman I felt so scared that how
how a woman actually feels because as
soon as the event got over he invited me
home for coffee I was like a bad idea I
need to run so we men don’t realize the
problem until we face it ourselves so
the solution is very simple we need to
step in your shoes yes we need to step
in your shoes to gain that empathy any
and all of you can do it all the men
over here can do it any law any ritual
which you find in your family in your
office in your business you think that
it doesn’t make sense or is not viable
test it out for a week whatever has been
passed on by our forefathers we as men
need to test it once again what do I
mean with that okay so as a woman most
of the times you are banned it’s a part
of a ritual that you cannot fart or burp
in a public place fine as a man tried
out for a week not farting or burping in
a public place as a woman they’re always
told to wear covered clothes or to wear
or to cover their heads when going
outside the house so as a man I would
request you try that for a week if you
find that to be a logical
idea or a ritual passed on by your
elders Azzam as a woman
most women are told to stay in the house
after dark after seven o clock after
eight o’clock so if you as a man if you
find that viable try staying in the
house as well after seven for a week and
see how it actually feels you consider
dowry to be viable fine then you
yourself need to give some dowdy when
you get married you think her virginity
matters before marriage then as a man I
challenge you to remain a virgin before
marriage if you can do it only then
convince her to stay as that and not
only preach I even try starts off such
stuff so Karva Chauth an Indian ritual
where women get up at 4 o clock eat
something and keep a fast for the entire
day you’re not even allowed to drink
anything all of you must be knowing that
so as a man I thought even I should do
it okay I miserably failed really I have
failed instead of getting up at 4 o
clock I couldn’t sleep the entire night
by the sheer idea that I need to stay
hungry for the entire day for my lover
so instead I got up at 8 o clock then I
ate something and within the next 3
hours I had extreme amounts of acidity
inside my stomach and I was running from
one place to another literally I went up
to my mother and touched her feet and
told her that just cause she is forced
to do it
as part of our ritual that doesn’t make
my wife or my partner to take up that
particular activity so yeah you can
challenge any ritual any law which you
don’t think is viable for your partner
or for any gender out there ladies and
gentlemen one last request before I end
I am just asking for relationships where
there are no gender rules
where
both of them can pay and both of them
can equally earn where both of them can
clean the house and both of them can
cook where both of them can love each
other and both of them can respect
because at the end of the day the world
is not black and white it’s all the
colors of the rainbow thank you and have
a nice day
[Applause]
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