India is a land of diverse cultures and religions. However, historically, this diversity has been misused by the conquerors and invaders by applying the strategy of Divide & Rule. The Moghuls used it, and so did the Britishers. The strategy is used by Indian politicians as well, and it works wonders to divide the votes and create different categories of vote banks. Earlier, this division used to majorly happen on the basis of religion, caste or region. However, since past 15-20 years, the focus is more on dividing the society based on Gender. This is evident in various Women Appeasement policies and laws enacted by Governments of all political parties across India.
Recently, this Gender divide became mainstream during the Tokyo Olympics 2020 (2021), when every single medal won by any Indian woman athlete was praised as “Girl Power” or “Woman Power” or “Smashing the Patriarchy”. Most of these terms were used by Feminists and the SIMPS/Betas. Indian Feminists, who usually copy the next made up “hip” thing from Western Feminists, like “Toxic Masculinity”, “Smash the Patriarchy”, “Gender Pay Gap”, tried hopelessly to demand equal pay for Indian women cricketers, same as Indian men cricketers. This brainless and illogical demand was shot down by Indian woman cricketer Smriti Mandhana, and the demands of equal pay in cricket ended with a whimper.
However, some prominent Indian women, mocked the Indian men for not winning medals at Tokyo Olympics 2020, in its initial days. Such was their impatience, that they didn’t even wait for Olympics to finish, and mocked the men athletes via tweets. One such tweet was by Indian journalist Marya Shakil, who is actually winner of Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards as Best Political Journalist (Broadcast) in 2012. She tweeted:
The tweet is TweetStamped here. As it is clearly visible, she just couldn’t contain the opportunity to mock Indian men, and question their capabilities, when 3 Indian women athletes won medals. Such biased women hold prominent positions in Indian media, and are responsible for forming public opinion.
Not too far behind was Indian Olympian, Babita Phogat. Despite being an athlete and Olympian herself, she mocked the Indian men after Indian woman athlete PV Sindhu won the medal. Below is her tweet:
The tweet is tweetstamped here. Tweets like these showed utter disregard to efforts put by Indian male athletes, and they didn’t even care about what effect will such tweets have on morale and psyche of the Athletes competing in Olympics.
There were countless other tweets comparing Indian men athletes to Dowry seekers, saying Indian men can only depend on women to bring gold, despite the fact that all Indian Olympic gold medals have been won by men, and 95% of Dowry harassment cases in India are fake.
In not so crazy and totally expected turn of events, Indian men then won more medals (4 out of 7 medals), and Neeraj Chopra actually won another Gold Medal in later days of the Olympics. So far, not a single Indian woman has won a Gold medal in history of Olympics. And as an extra twist of fate, India’s Women wrestler Vinesh Phogat, the sister of aforementioned Babita Phogat who mocked Indian male athletes, was temporarily suspended by Wrestling Federation of India, for indiscipline during Tokyo Olympics 2020.