Originally posted by: Thug-Leader
I think it has all to do with how much people are obsessed with another one and what society thinks of.
Men or women alike, tend to ignore the bad habits of someone they love/desire. It is the social pressure which makes some men act tough while make women act suppressed.
I can garuntee if society wasn't putting pressure on men, most of them would have forgiven their women for cheating like Rustom did, while most of the women who forgive their men would have left them still their would be a sizable number of women, who despite being powerful enough socially, still keep would have kept their husband while harassing the other women in their life because of the obsession with the said men.
Having lived in Meghalaya, one thing I am certain, men or women, given social power, cheat on their partners and suppress the socially weaker gender.
Here in our state, the three main tribes: Khasi, Jaintia and Garo, women have more authority, so most of the men are reduced to baby giving tool, children don't respect their father, women go around with other men and have multiple marriages and divorces. Not everyone, their are families with values and happy couples like in patriarch societies, but most of them in the town side it is true.
Witnessed only one case where a wife cheated her husband and she ran away with another man leaving her husband and children behind. Rest all cases are the men who have been bad so I don't think Kabir Singh is even 1% of what these men are. Women cheating is nothing new but never seen the husband who keeps tolerating it while when this happens, so many people sympathize with the man and tell him to get remarried while rarely the woman is asked to do so. Infact she is blamed. My own aunt was left by her husband a she couldn't have a kid. After 20 years of marriage, he left a note saying I don't love you anymore and married another woman and again he did not have any kid. She tells me that she has forgiven him long back but never anyone told her to marry again.
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