No one can deny the fact that marital adornments are patriarchal in nature. While in today’s world, you’ll find a lot of people saying that women choose to adorn themselves with these marital jewelries and other stuff, but they forget the fact that they are only speaking about the privileged women. As for women who don’t have any kind privilege? Some don’t even have the choice to get out of the four walls of their homes, let alone the choice to wear or not wear the marital adornments.
Women have been taught to follow patriarchal norms with baseless beliefs just in the name of traditions. My question, why is it that only women are expected to carry on all these traditions? And why is it that only women are supposed to change the entire way of their dressing after marriage? From a bindi on their forehead to toerings on their toes, women are supposed to wear all these adornments in the name of tradition for the long life of their husbands. And obviously, there is no such thing present for men. People will come up with thousands of arguments for these marital adornments and tell you a lot of “scientific” facts of how these marital adornments make sense, but it does not and will never change the fact that marital adornments are patriarchal in nature and until and unless every single woman regardless of her status gets to choose to wear or not wear them.