In Hinduism, certain aspects within the Brahmin scriptures present a troubling perspective on women. These scriptures depict women as mere commodities, placing excessive emphasis on their sexuality and utilizing derogatory language to degrade them.

This portrayal severely limits the prospects available to women by forbidding their study of the Vedas, participation in holy rituals, and engagement in worship. Moreover, women are marked as "whores" and subjected to cruel treatment as slaves or regarded as inferior beings.

It is noteworthy that Hinduism even equates these "whores" with childless widows and forbids the consumption of their food. The complete disregard for women's rights evident within Hinduism is profoundly disheartening.

As we delve deeper into this subject, we will now examine the disconcerting belief that "A proud wife should be punished", Manusmriti 8.299 The wife, son, slave, servant & the uterine brother shall be beaten with a rope or a split bamboo, when they have committed a fault.-(299)

The meaning of this is that the wife is to be chastised by him whose wife she is, the slave is to be chastised by him who is his master, and so forth. Manu 8.371 If a wife, proud of the greatness of her relatives or (her own) excellence, violates the duty which she owes to her

Lord, the king shall cause her to be devoured by dogs in a place frequented by many. Manu Smriti 5.154 Though destitute of virtue, or seeking pleasure (elsewhere), or devoid of good qualities, (yet) a husband must be constantly worshipped as a god by a faithful wife.

Devi Bhagavatam 9.35.1-44 “If any woman, being very furious with anger, chastises and uses harsh words on her husband, she goes to Ulkâmukha Kunda for as many years as there are hairs on his body. My servants put fiery meteors or torches in her mouth and beat on her head.

At the end of the term, she becomes a human being but she has to bear the torments of widowhood for seven births. Then she is again born as diseased; when at last she gets herself freed. The Brâhmana woman, enjoyed by a S’ûdra, goes to the terrible dark Andhakûpa hell,

where she remains, day and night, immersed in the impure water and eats that for fourteen Indra’s life periods. Her pains are unbounded and My messengers beat her severely and incessantly.”

Skanda Purana II.iv.4.74 “Even if the husband is poor, foolish or wretched, he is the refuge unto his wife. By abandoning him a woman falls into hell.” Shiva Purana, Uma Samhita 5.24.16-36 ”There is none more sinning and more sinful than women.Women are at the root of all sins.

If at all they stand by them with their husbands it is because no man makes advances to them or because they are afraid of their husbands…They carry on their dalliances with any man ugly or beautiful…Even women of noble families aspire for the life of lascivious

women who in their prime of youth adorned with lovable ornaments and beautiful wearing garments move about frivolously…Women become desperate when they do not get men…women are not satiated with the number of men they cohabit with.

O excellent sage, there is another secret of all women that immediately on seeing a man their vaginal passage begins to exude slimy secretions. On seeing a man fresh and clean from his bath with his body perfumed with sweet scents,

the vaginal passage of women begins to exude like water dripping from a leather bag…on hearing her words Narada was satisfied in his mind. Considering it to be the truth.

Narada Purana I.14.17 “If, out of wickedness, a woman does not render physical service to her husband, she must be punished by abandoning her for twelve years, without giving her financial assistance.”