India’s fixation with ‘He’; why did kids in my class always use ‘Ram’?

When Indians narrate an incident and suppose that person could be a guy or a girl – guess what would the typical Indian quote the gender? ‘He’.

Strangely even when the person herself is a woman, the tendency to use ‘He’ still remains. It appears perfectly normal to say that the doctor, cop, surgeon, jailor, supervisor, lawyer, builder, director –is a ‘He’. It does not occur that there is every chance that this person could be a ‘She’. The men could be attuned to think of their gender as the gender to associate with. What makes the women pick the male gender as the preferred gender?

Is it because all the scriptures talk in the mail voice. Is it because the scriptures always say ‘Aadmi’ meaning ‘Man’. Or does that imply that from ages before, whenever mankind had to foretell, record or write – the preferred gender was male? Does it also mean that man was considered to be a the suitable candidate when explaining behavior?

Even the Indian adages and the sayings do they have a special affinity for the male gender?

“Aadmi ka naseeb”, ‘Khuda Bande se pooche’, ‘Aadmi ka karam’, ‘Bhaichara’, ‘Andho mein kana Raja’, ‘So sunar ki, ek luhar ki’, ‘Chor ki dadi mein tinka’…

All of it seems to be have been written keeping the man in mind. So well that was the fixation part.


‘Ram’. Practically every kid in my class in junior school, for any essay, any sentences to be made the name which they always used – ‘Ram’. Why? Still do not know? It always was

‘Ram rescued the drowning child’,
‘Ram was scolded by his father’,
‘Ram remained silent throughout the interrogation’,
“Ram hid behind the giant wheel’

I was in awe for the names like Albert and Michael and thought they were really cool. For the names for girls I think it was Jenifer. I had noticed that the other kids had a fixation for Ram, so whenever I used to make sentences I used to use these cool names . I always thought that my teacher would take notice and give extra credit. But as usual they were cool names only for me.