It is not muscle but obedience that makes men strong.

A Prof Melvin Konner has written that all these years men have ruled because of greater muscle power but as technology takes away the need for strength " Research has found that women are superior to men in most ways that will count in future". " The Bible, the Iliad, the great Indian epics - all of them are full of sex and violence," he writes. We beg to differ. We cannot comment on the Bible or the Iliad but women were the cause and the instigators of the wars in both the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. In the Ramayana, Ram's step mother, Kaikeyi gets his father to banish him for 14 years so as to make her son, Bharat the king of Ayodhya. Her maid, Manthara eggs her on. Then Ravana's sister, Surpanakha tries to seduce Lakshman who cuts off her nose. Her tearful appeal for revenge to her brother leads him to abduct Sita. Sita forces Ram to go after a golden stag, which was an illusion, by Ravana's agent and when he calls for help in Ram's voice Sita orders Lakshman to go to the aid of his brother, leaving her alone. Before leaving Lakshman creates a secure zone for her, called the Lakshman Rekha, but Sita steps out of it, allowing Ravana to abduct her, leading to war. In the Mahabharata, Satyavathi first deprives Devavrat of his crown and makes him promise to protect her descendants at all costs. Satyavathi orders her bachelor son Ved Vyas to impregnate Amba, Ambika and Ambalika but he was so ugly that Amba closed her eyes so that her son, Dhritarashtra was born blind and was deprived of the crown, which is why he bore a grudge against the Pandavs. Pandu was not the father of any of his 5 sons. Kunti gave birth to Karan before marriage and floated him down a river, to be rescued and brought up by a charioteer. Finally, Draupadi insulted Duryodhan unnecessarily by calling him a blind son of a blind father. Her desire for vengeance was so strong that she was willing to sacrifice thousands of lives, including those of her sons, to attain her goal. She refused to dress her hair until she could wash it with blood from Dusshasan's chest. Feminists accuse men of being responsible for anorexia in women in the west. Are they? About 100 years back upper class women in China used to tie their feet. It was excruciatingly painful and made it impossible for them to walk, but it got them rich husbands because peasants and housemaids had big feet. Today no woman in China binds her feet but men still find them desirable, don't they? The strength of Alexander, Julius Caesar or Spartacus did not lie in their muscles, although Spartacus was a trained gladiator, but in the armies they commanded. Men have ruled the world because other men obeyed their commands, to the death. It is this obedience and loyalty by men that has created the rulers of the world. Will women be willing to lay down their lives for women leaders?