The very poor treatment of women in India is one of the few examples where I cannot put aside my own culture's ways to appreciate that not all others live as I do.
There's tradition - and there's culturally ingrained abuse. Just because abuse has happened for a long time, don't make it right.
Around the top of leading causes of death for women in India was, the last time I looked, household electrical fires. This statistic thinly disguises the practise of wife-burning, culturally acceptable murder outlawed many years ago officially, but nevertheless still rampant today.
Any culture in which violence and threat to women is institutional NEEDS a pile of heavy sanctions to force it to get up to speed with human rights. I don't where or how ancient it is.
Thank you for writing that. I know that it moves me; when I sit here and have everthing; too much and others because of an ancient caste system are cast out; or into hiding for their lives as widows.
Recently I had been watching bbc series, I try to catch some here and there. Sev were crime dramas and one thing really stood out to me. No offense pls no one think I am attacking here; but it has become really obvious that in London people are not very nice to each other. The bias against women is still there; and esp in the work force. Their contempt of one another bleeds through in the writing; in the plots, and in the way they speak to each other. I find it fascinating...then again so many I know are miserable living in England. For so many reasons. I also had a dream to go....but now I'm finding that wow...from just watching *too many* recent and older series that the discrimination women face their is rampant. The Queen does nothing...the Youth Riots and is in uproar, there isn't great food...some still eat meat in a tin. It's given me a new perspective on the English culture and how so much HASN'T CHANGED. This is their life and it bleeds through in what they serve for breakfast dinner...etc. There seems to be no middle class just lower class and the rich and then of course The Queen.
I can see why the youth are rioting now so often in England. But it's been like this huge enlightening discovery to see how they treat each other. I mean coworkers, neighbors, loved ones, or frenemies even. They knit pick they talk behind backs, all kinds of things I've seen bleed through their writing in really great shows. Esp Prime Suspect w Helen Mirren it is shocking and I wonder if it was based on someone real. Luther, and the crimes are horrific. So are the Plots but hey it's true crime....it's human behavior. That's what I love to study.
I feel awful for this girl she is just a child and being left at the alter could have been seen as bad as being left widowed in that system in India. IT's just as enlightening to know; that so many are forced to defecate in public amongst others. How Demeaning would that be. I can imagine...how embarrassing how awful, but why haven't they done ANYTHING in INDIA to fix this public defecation issue? They don't care about women. Peroid. We only burned bras in America.
When the Taj Mahal happened; I witness live online male newscasters being extremely rude to women broadcasters, oftentimes telling them on air to "shut up" and lets give it over to.....*some other male correspondent* It was awful to watch awful to hear how they spoke to the women who held the same position they did.
We need to change the world. We can change the world. But no one bothers. Just let them go "outside on the railroad tracks." They have the technology they just don't care about women; most die in childbirth not just africa...all over. It's so sad. But I really wanted to say again if you haven't seen Water it is an eye opener into India's caste system and what happens to the women; GIRLS that are like 9 that are married to some old fart who then dies on them. she has no idea of the horrors of her fate that lie ahead. It's just not fair.