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How does one effect societal change to counter this? Poverty or the poverty gap isn't going away anytime soon in India. I don't necessarily think poverty is the
by blizkreeg 13y ago
How does one effect societal change to counter this? Poverty or the poverty gap isn't going away anytime soon in India. I don't necessarily think poverty is the problem in this case. It is an attitude that's all too pervasive among Indian men, even the well-educated ones and most have gotten away with it for decades. It will take an entire generation and perhaps more of education and cultural shift to change misogynistic attitudes and teach basic respect.
What does one do, present day, to start fixing the problem?
As a man who grew up in India but lives in the west now, I'm ashamed of this side of my home country.
The staring thing is uniquely Indian and I'd agree with devindotcom, most of the time, curiosity that is honest and harmless.
- prawn 13y agoWhat about women in visible positions of power/authority? In Australia, male/female police duos are quite common. Could the same be useful in India? I think someone suggested elsewhere that this is being tried in Southern India. Swift justice and brutal penalties, with cases being openly reported as a deterrence. If many (generally poorer, rural) men are moving to cities, is there an issue of them being unable to find sexual partners of a similar status due to an imbalance in gender? Not sure how you would even begin to reasonably solve that problem in a short amount of time.