In India, Cows Are Sacred, Women Are Dispensable
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#2I am male, but I'm a strong feminist. I refuse to use GoDaddy for hosting because of their degrading and objectifying advertising campaign. But there's a problem stemming from two different views on feminism.
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.
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#3I am male, but I'm a strong feminist. I refuse to use GoDaddy for hosting because of their degrading and objectifying advertising campaign. But there's a problem stemming from two different views on feminism. 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…
I don't think its right to call them two sides, when
"sexually repressed apes perpetually abusing women" are million times more than "clinically insane extremists"
Re: In India, Cows Are Sacred, Women Are Dispensable
#4I am male, but I'm a strong feminist. I refuse to use GoDaddy for hosting because of their degrading and objectifying advertising campaign. But there's a problem stemming from two different views on feminism. 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…
Disagreement is a pretty low standard for extremism.
Re: In India, Cows Are Sacred, Women Are Dispensable
#5I am male, but I'm a strong feminist. I refuse to use GoDaddy for hosting because of their degrading and objectifying advertising campaign. But there's a problem stemming from two different views on feminism. 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…
I am male and not a feminist, because I disagree with their man-hating propaganda ("A women needs a man like a bicycle needs a fish"). But I am all for equivalence and my wife is my equal as well as my partner (well ... if I admit it, she's my better half in almost every way). I think I'll go hug her - bye.
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#6I'm looking at her list of things she has to do at the bottom of the article.
My wife and daughters do most of those (including a modesty scarf)...and we live in the USA.
Re: In India, Cows Are Sacred, Women Are Dispensable
#7I am male, but I'm a strong feminist. I refuse to use GoDaddy for hosting because of their degrading and objectifying advertising campaign. But there's a problem stemming from two different views on feminism. 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…
Disagreement is a pretty low standard for extremism.
So, publicly shaming and getting two individuals fired for talking about forking a Git repo isn't extremism?
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#8Gandhi said "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated."
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...
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Disagreement is a pretty low standard for extremism.
So, publicly shaming and getting two individuals fired for talking about forking a Git repo isn't extremism?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-barreled_question
I do think rape and death threats are, at least, extremist behavior.
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#10I am male, but I'm a strong feminist. I refuse to use GoDaddy for hosting because of their degrading and objectifying advertising campaign. But there's a problem stemming from two different views on feminism. 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…
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