2026-09-22 15:26 UTC
@altlife@me.dm A while ago, I listened/watched this version of the Ramayana.
https://www.youtube.com/@21Notes/playlists
In the beginning the storyteller guy explains how Ayodhya was a safe city where women could walk anywhere freely. So perhaps, in the past India was a different place for women.
However, in the later chapters, there is the question of Sita's purity after being kidnapped. Ram even does a whole theatrical drama of accepting Sita back and trusting her virtue, and it's for the common people around them.
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@filomel@musician.social 2026-09-22 15:29
@altlife@me.dm So even back then, there was that sort of narrow-minded judgment towards a well-known virtuous woman who got into a predicament she didn't herself choose. One thing the narrator criticizes is the latter additions of Sita's banishment - because indeed Ram did a whole circus to appease the common folk, and the matter was settled. But apparently that was not enough for latter interpreters and they had to add the banishment after. At least this narrator recognized it as such, and I agree.