In India, Cows Are Sacred, Women Are Dispensable(medium.com) |
In India, Cows Are Sacred, Women Are Dispensable(medium.com) |
I guess Gandhi forgot that cows in India really do have it pretty good. Unfortunately, we, the people of india, haven't been able to pass a vital measure of moral progress: how do we treat our women. The woman taking a walk, travelling on public transit or the countless other examples that the author cites, should serve as a reminder of how spectacularly we have failed as a society. I wouldn't be surprised if we have actually regressed significantly [2].
It's hard to be optimistic about India, but hopefully these shocking incidents would stir up enough Indians to take notice and try to do something about it. For example, education(including sex ed. by the way) is a start. I am not sure how literacy rates have been affected by the RTE [1] act that came into effect in 2010, but I am hopeful that in the longer run, it'll improve our society.
[1] Right to Education Act: http://mhrd.gov.in/rte
[2] An interview from the former king of Travancore (read the last question, the one about matriarchs): http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/Chunk-HT-UI-ViewsSec...
With a population of 1.3 billion, I'm not surprised you can "Pick an age — any number — and put “raped” after it in a Google search and see results from India."
Google "Vatican City + raped" You'll find a 9 yr old was raped in the smallest city in the world! The Vatican no less!
Rape happens all over the world. I'd love to see how long this woman lasts on 110 and Broadway in NYC without her "modesty scarf"
My girlfriend is from LA and never stops dressing like it, even when traveling throughout India. From large cities like New Delhi to a little town called Ichhawar, we never had any issues with all these supposed rapists. I'm guessing the reason why is my g/f has perspective and a handle on reality, where Meenakshi probably needs a b/f more than her bottle of pepper spay.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/12/29...
Intrigued by your claim, I turned to Google to find more. The only credible link was an article by the Huffington Post [1], and the claim had been redacted.
[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/irene-monroe/the-gandhi-none-o...
It seems like there are two distinct sides, and no neutral ground, for women's rights, and how one goes about fighting for them.
On one hand, you have sexually repressed apes perpetually abusing women and nobody bats an eye.
And on the other hand, you have clinically insane extremists who freak out over jokes about Github.
It's sad that we can't fight for what matters, which is women's rights. It's either go completely mad about it or do nothing at all.
That's feminism. You're a feminist.
How in the world is that man-hating? Would it be woman-hating to say "A man needs a woman like a bicycle needs a fish"?
That said, if someone says that a joke about github (or anything else) is making them uncomfortable, it's probably worth at least listening to them. Especially if they have lived a life sufficiently different from yours that their subjective experiences are likely to be somewhat distant from yours, and especially especially if they are of a demographic people judge harshly (as determined by IATs: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/selectatest.html
My wife and daughters do most of those (including a modesty scarf)...and we live in the USA.
Disclaimer: I didn´t read the "article"
The article I posted had nothing to do with Gandhi's Pedophilia. It was an article that simply suggested the potential causes of a symptomatic rape in Indian Society.
Actually thats Egalitarianism, not necessarily Feminism.
dictionary.com gives me "the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men", which to my mind suggests that if someone is "all for equivalence" then equivalence for women is a subset of that, so includes feminism.
So yes, I stand corrected. Being "all for equivalence" includes feminism, but is more than feminism; the OP is a feminist, and more.
I do think rape and death threats are, at least, extremist behavior.
Nothing terrible happened at PyCon. The three people directly involved are all fine people.
I just think it's not healthy to only look at one side of the equation.
You stated you were not for equality of men and women ("I am not a feminist") but then you immediately changed your mind and said "I am all for equivalence".
You are, as I said, a feminist and more. A feminist because you are for equivalence of men and women, and more because you are for equivalence of others as well.
Using the definition I gave (which is quite literally the dictionary definition), they are. I acknowledge that many people (in the US) seem to use the word "feminist" to mean "filthy godless pinko commie liberal baby-killing anti-American" (where "liberal" has already been redefined) or some other such politically charged interpretation. That's a fantastic trick pulled by the anti-women (amongst other things) crowd who do wonders with redefining language on a daily basis.