Men take on the patriarchy
Episode description
Santosh Shah is a household name in Nepal after finishing runner-up on MasterChef. Sanjog Thakuri’s father was cooking the daily meals for his family decades ago, so it was natural for the son to grow up helping in the kitchen. But as a teenager, when he wanted to talk about cooking while his friends teased local girls he himself became a target for not being macho enough.
Today, Sanjog talks to boys and men about how much better their lives, and society as a whole, would be if they didn’t conform to the pressure to constantly be aggressive leaders, responsible for protecting the women and girls in their lives. Society is changing, he says, with women taking on larger roles, but it’s going too slowly. For example, Sanjog says in today’s episode, look at how some men are wielding toxic masculinity online, trolling and threatening women.
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