The women domination is like Government encouraging a quota for under developed/undeveloped communities. The main reason for women domination is indulgence by parents of the girl before marriage. Secondly, just by getting themselves educated that they can think like men i.e. in the same manner as men forgetting the fact that women guided more by emotion than by rationalism in their decisions. The women do no desire relocation by themselves or their parents just because, the old adage of seeing in-laws as partial, inimical,etc. It is no wonder that if the parents are near even after marriage, women feel secure. In case no-in-laws are there, then they could seek the advice of mothers to solve the problems. Last but not the least, as brahmins are marginalised for their forefathers' fallacies, men are also marginalised for their forefathers' fallacies. Hope this would make the forum an interesting reading i.e. the comments that would follow. bye.
Shri gopaindu,
I presume you have used "fallacies" where "faults" may be more appropriate. Even if you intended 'false beliefs' by using the word 'fallacies', may be it is correct to some extent.
I agree that women, particularly, among tabras, were sidelined and were the "door-mats" till very recently. But during the last 50 years or so, there has been rapid 'emancipation' among them, the most important causes being higher education and well-paid employment opportunities. The IT/BPO boom during the last few years has accentuated the fact that women (girls, female youth) and men (male youth) are equally capable in almost all types of work. But men tend to think in the conventional way even now; young men in search of a suitable bride for themselves, seem to imagine that the wife-to-be will be a stereotype doormat but, at the same time, they do not want a girl who has stopped her education with 7th. or 8th. class, can do only cooking and other household chores in the conventional way - with ammikkallu, ATTukkallu, thirukai, ulakkai, viRaku aDuppu and kari aDuppu, etc., and will excel in preparing good original tabra meals as also murukku, thaTTai, thenkuzhal, porivilankaay, manoharam, athirasam and so on.
Thus, you see, gopa, the fallacy is equally with the male youth of today also. They want a modern, highly educated, very beautiful (and, in truth sexy-looking and attractive), high-earning wife who can be 'flaunted' before their friends and peers, but would like such a girl to be a perfect door-mat like the show successfully put on by their mother and what they have assimilated in their minds from hearing (and, probably) relishing stories of naLAyini, sAvitri, etc.
I say "show successfully put on" because I can honestly say that the male of the species has always been the weaker party in almost all aspects of life and even two or three generations ago, the illiterate old women used to 'dictate' to their husbands but the society was such that the 'iyerwall' used to appear forbiddingly authoritarian to the world but was a mouse before his wife or sometimes even wives, who could merely 'click' him and get their commands obeyed to the dot, without affecting the fragile 'forbiddingly authoritarian' image.
Today's girls/wives either do not have that knack or may be they just don't care. Plus, the law is now very much in favour of women domination. Further, the sex-ratio is highly skewed against the unmarried male in the tabra community, at least. Hence both boys in search of brides and their parents have to wake up to the realities and to accept the subordinate position of the male in future domestic units. Men who refuse to do this will get marginalized by the sheer efflux of time, by nothing else, imho.