Women, men and Kaliyug

The Pandit was clear in his sermon that this night of Laxmi and this time of Navratra highlighted the need for the respect for women. He quoted several times about how a country , society and a home where women are not respected will be destroyed.
We sang part of the Sabari katha from the Ramayana. The part where Sabari represents herself as the lowest of the low and Lord Rama said that regardless of who you are, the devotion is what counts.

After the service, we are gaffing and one of my Ramayana gole members said that Kaliyug (this dark age, the age of the demon Kali ) is one in which men need protection and because men are not being protected then things will go haywire and that because women are 'in charge'..
the Pandit said no way, are you saying that Kaliyug means that because men are not dominating.. my colleague said.. that it is scientific, men are more adventurous than women.. then another man said that the Ramayana said something about men and women  and women yanking men's chains,
but then he asked, is this kaliyug the time when men's karma from the past when they dominated women now turning back. so women will get in charge.. 

All of the men of course worship the divine mother with great fervour..

The Pandit said that the shakti and the shakta are both needed, one is not dominant or more important.. my colleague said how men are being destroyed and then one of the other colleagues.. asked.. but who is destroying these men? Is it women?  And cant the man /men change their own karma and free themselves from their own lust and greed and envy that they blame on women?
The gaff finish at that point.

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