In Michael Moore's Sicko - and very often in life they say the true character of a country can be judged by how it treats its weakest. To me it applies to how it treats its women as well. The more I find the oxymoron of Indians worshipping women dieities true, the more ugliness I find in the behavior of its men towards women. It's been a terribly sickening Saturday morning when I open a newspaper and all I find is violence against women, of such depravity, it nearly made me throw up.
Unfortunately, the way in which Indian men and women themselves treat the women of this country is downright disgusting. I find that this is not just systemic bias, but just like its caste system, its some sort of latent hatred towards women - which pours out in each and every activity men do - and each and everything they say to them - its down right patronizing tone and revolting undercurrents. I do not understand how you cannot do any value judgement of your significant others in life! This creeps through all strata of society - women with no economic independence and no say in the role of planning their family fall prey to the debauchery of men all over.
Its an endemic plague afflicting society, and I find this abuse is very strongly tied to the absence of economic and sexual freedom for women - The moment this happens and women have greater say in choosing who their partners are and when they are interested in family, it would lead to lesser of this abuse - but the scope for exploitation still exists - as long as we have a nation full of pimps - either in the family or outside of them.
There is no new reason I need to give for asking the men of this country to stop this brazen and disgusting violence and repression of women - What the Taliban did to the woman in SWAT is just a mirror of what happens in our country as well - there is real good scope to give women the freedom they deserve in making decisions and of course they will make mistakes - but then who doesn't. We need special laws against this subjugation of 1/2 of our country, and unless we do, forget super power status - we won't respect ourselves as a nation.
It needs a serious change of attitude of the lot. Easier said than done!
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I think you need to get your head straight about the "FACTS", and not get overly emotional about this.
The fact of the matter is most men are "Stronger" than women - and there is not doubt about this - and stronger has its own connotations, we own both the money and the muscle to carry it out. Its not just a problem for all women but for most men who live under slavery in this world. I don't see why you are complaining when the very idea of the piece calls for setting aside the proverbial "male ego" and try to find a solution to the problem - however that isn't going to happen as long as the men behave like cavemen, and women like you can't stop screaming without ever understanding what the problem is in the first place. You think this is about calling women weaklings - its not - its about acknowledging the problem that women can never muscle over men and get what they want - change can only come if men stop being such a pig-head about accepting the emancipation of women.
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