I came across a post titled ‘Being Female in India:A Hate Story’ more or less a Mayo’s Report on India.
As usual we do not need foreigners to misinterpret India , we Indians are adept at it.
Yes , it is written by an Indian where you find sweeping statements on India and Indian women, probably to show off as an intellectual.
Let me , at the out set state I am an out right critic of rape and advocate stringent punishment for the rapists.(read my blogs)
What are the statements made by the author?
Teen Pregnancy.
As expected the source is from Wall Street Journal which again is based on a UN report on Teen Pregnancy.
If Statistics can be twisted and quoted out of context , this is it.
The figures are for Human Development Index and under Women are these statistics.
It mentions Teenage pregnancy along with Malnutrition, Early marriage and forced marriage at an early age for girls.
Malnutrition is not selective for Girl child it is generic to both the Sex
Early marriage is definitely is on the wane and as to forced marriage,in fact the forced marriage often emanates from the girls/boys concerned now,look at boys and girls eloping when they are studying in X standard.( Forced marriages do exist albeit Ina small way as compared to the population and Literacy)
Teenage pregnancy;
The data does not provide an insight into how many rapes are due to Teen pregnancy .
All teen pregnancies are not due to rape.
That a woman can call even a consenting sexual act a Rape latter is some thing else!
So much for these Statistics.
Now to India’s ‘Rape’
Out goes your argument that India Tops the Rape List!
‘We abort Millions of fetuses’
The source for the writer in The telegraph article.
Tell me how many of these are from rape?
Look at this from the same article.
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The mean number of children per Indian woman fell from 3.8 in 1990 to 2.6 in 2008.
Selective abortion of female fetuses accounts for two to four per cent of female pregnancies in India, roughly 300,000 to 600,000 per year out of 13.3 to 13.7 million carrying a girl in 2010, the study found.
From 2001 to 2011, the practice increased at a rate of 170 per cent, slowing from 260 per cent over the previous decade.
In the study, researchers led by Prabhat Jha of the Centre for Global Health at the University of Toronto, analysed census data from 2011 and earlier.’
Figures speak.
Single woman. Quoted from WSJ. No body eyes a Single woman with suspicion ,in fact . at least in the South we try to take care of her as
in loco parentis.
Only when male visitors stay up late in the night in her room or drinking and partying goes on we do object it.
Reference has been made to Dowry.Please tell us whether it is the Boy, The father of the Boy or the Mother of the Boy demands the
Dowry.
How many female Fetuses are aborted by the commands of women?
No doubt Rape is a heinous crime and has to be eradicated.
It does not mean that all men are ogres and Rapists.
Shall I talk of Female rapists? ( especially at the work place)
The article is curiously silent about the provocation of women in scantiest of Clothes.
On top of it there is a placard showing .
Unfortunately the advice is given only to protect two men and not to encourage Rapists.
Sex is a primordial urge;don’t incite it by sexiest dresses(revealing) or statements like ‘I want to look sexy.
If women continue finding fault only with men there is no solution,look at your self as well .
Remember Your Father, Brothers, Husband and Sons are all…….MEN.
India hates women. It is with this bald fact that I wish to begin—and end—my response to the horrific crime that occurred this week in Delhi, the rape, by multiple perpetrators, of a young woman on public transport in our capital city. She was raped by a gang of men, and she and her companion were both severely beaten, stripped naked and thrown from the bus in which they had been travelling. The young woman, to whom this response is dedicated, now lies fighting for her life, her uterus and intestines ruptured from the brutal attack, in a Delhi hospital.
If any Indian claims to be surprised by this crime and that Indian is a mentally competent, responsible adult, then he or she is lying. There are, of course, other, gentler names—ignorance, hypocrisy, denial. But let us call a spade a spade. Anyone who has experienced life growing up in India, who can claim the minimum level of education and awareness that should come with reading the newspapers, with a high school diploma or by simply keeping one’s eyes open, knows about India’s hatred for women. If he or she says otherwise, that assertion is false. In other words, he or she lies. And it is in those lies of ours, in that denial that persists in spite of India’s shameful record asone of the most misogynistic countries in the world—it is those lies that beat up and raped that young woman, that sent her crushed and bleeding, torn and broken inside and out, to that hospital where she lies now in her agony. Our lies made the attack possible, created a space for it to happen.
http://transhumanity.net/articles/entry/being-female-in-india-a-hate-story
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