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Between the rapes, dowries, sexual harassment, and a general sense of misogyny: it must be really unfortunate to be born a female in India. I wonder how much of

• keerthiko 12y ago
  It really is unfortunate. The worst part is that as an Indian male (granted I grew up in the Middle East), I didn't realize my mom and the girls in the country were facing a 10x difficulty multiplier on their lives. And this is normal. Most of our males don't even realize how bad it is, even the educated, cultured, open-minded ones. Let alone the men, even the women have to accept the misogyny and think it's only right that a woman must know how to cook above all else and be at home, listen to her husband when he curbs her career progression, etc. I only began to understand when I went away to college. Hearing white people complaining about misogyny, and my first thought was "this is nothing!" and realized how much sadder it was that was what came to mind. The problem is that a lot of the misogyny is defended by religion even, with women denied entry into temples (and by extension lots of solemn gatherings) if they're on their periods. Apparently because couple of thousand years ago women would make temple toilets messy and that was desecration of sacred grounds. Today my response is just "WTF?" when my mom still observes this when our family goes to a temple anywhere in the world, and doesn't enter.