When women who have had the privilege of being put on a collective pedestal fall from grace there is no mercy, rarely even the possibility of redemption. Representation pic

"Male Pedestalism." The word stood out quite boldly when my friend Akshay happened to use it in a sentence. "I think that could be a legitimate term," he said. I had to agree. We had been speaking about how communities within societies, be they literary, thespian, artistic, tended to elevate male practitioners and figures on a pedestal, according them the status of demi-gods.