It's strange... but its like all straight men realise that all of them have a sexual thing for men. But, still they want to pretend to really believe in heterosexuality -- as the exclusive, strongest, sexual need of men. How does the society fool men in entrapping them into this self-destructive behaviour, so that they become mute servants of the social forces of oppression. This is how:
We can draw a parrellel between how they entrap men and how catchers of wild animals who sell them in villages and town in traditional India entraps these simple beings. What they do is, these catchers have developed mechansisms after first finding out, what are the weaknesses of these animals that they wanted to trap. Then they devise mechansisms to exploit their weaknesses and entrap them. E.g. for catching monkeys, the catchers found out that monkeys have a weakness for grams (chana in Hindi). They put grams in clay pots with very narrow openings. When the monkey smells the gramms in the pots, it puts its hands inside to take them out. its hands go in, but when he grabs gramms in them, it becomes thicker and doesn't come out of the pot. Now, the monkey is in a dilemmna. He doesn't want to let go of the grams from his hands, out of greed... he hopes that he will somehow take his hand out, but no matter how hard he tries, he can't do it. He doesn't even break the clay pot, because he thinks he will lose all the grams. So, he's stuck with them, until the catcher comes and grabs him. The irony is that other monkeys see what happened to one of them, but unmindful of his fate, each thinks that he is better than the unfortunate companion who got caught, and that he will be able to take out the gram without getting caught. But all of them get caught eventually.
This is more or less what happens with men. The society (those who controlled it, the rulers for instance) figured early on, that although men are the strongest human gender and you cannot enslave them through physical power, they found out that men's spaces were there weakness, and that they would do anything to become a part of it. And men's spaces came to be represented by Manhood. So, the society controlled these spaces by manipulating the definition of manhood and what men had to do to get manhood (and a place in the men's spaces). Man is so greedy of the manhood that he gets from those who control men's spaces, that when he gets it, he can't leave it, but he can't really use it for his benefit. He is just caught, like the poor greedy monkey, who is eventually caught and made a slave to the catcher.
Similarly, they trick wild parrots.
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