Are Men Truly Independent? A Question Society Rarely Asks

These days, I’ve noticed something that society really needs to pay attention to.

My brother was very hungry, and my grandmother was still cooking. But he was too impatient to wait. Seeing this, my grandmother jokingly said, ‘If you’re so hungry, make the food yourself….but you probably don’t know how to cook.’ Then she added with a smile, ‘So sit quietly. When you get married, you can ask your wife to cook quickly for you’.

That small moment made me realize something.

Women Are Becoming Independent… But Are Men
Really Independent?

“Girls have become independent, and we are still moving towards more independence. But are boys truly becoming self-sufficient the way we are?”

And the answer my mind gave was – not at all. Boys are still not truly on their own

Girls today earn money, but we also know how to cook. We know how to go to the market, buy vegetables, and turn them into a meal.

From earning money to making our own food, we can do almost everything ourselves. In many ways, we are moving toward becoming completely independent and self-reliant.

But what about boys? Most of them only know how to earn money, not how to cook. so can they really be called fully independent?

At least in this aspect, the percentage of boys who are truly self-reliant is probably much lower than that of girls.

For food, they are completely dependent on their mother, grandmother, wife or sister it seems that our society – never really taught them how to be self-sufficient.

Girls are often curious to learn everything – riding a bike, driving a car, and becoming self-reliant in every way. Then why don’t boys feel the curiosity to cook their own food?

If a housewife is dependent on her husband and not self-reliant, then her husband is also reliant on his wife when it comes to food. So how is he considered Autonomous?

I don’t know the answers to the questions rising in my mind…and I don’t even want to know.

But one thing is clear: in today’s society, women have become completely
self-reliant, while men are still not truly self-sufficient.

Till today, I have always seen men depending on a woman for food. And many men even get married just so they can have a ready-made cook, don’t they?

Because in India, 80% of mothers haven’t even taught their sons how to make tea.

It’s true that some people are changing these days, but their numbers are still very very very small.

What I mean is, if cooking is a basic survival skill, then both boys and girls should know it, not just girls.

Is there any man in your home or around you who earns money and also knows how to cook?
If yes, then they definitely deserve appreciation.