WARNING! This will not be a politically correct blog! Just be honest; that’s my policy. Top story for me this morning I was reading that India has a newly elected president. Not much of a top story until I found out who it was, are you ready for this, it’s a women. Ok stop yelling at me and casting me to Hades. I think that it is awesome that she is in that position if she was the best candidate for the job. I see no problem with women completing any job -except you still can’t write you name in the snow Ha.
The basis of my utter shock came from the long, long, history of poor treatment, or better yet, sickening treatment of women in India -among other similar south Asian countries. Women have their rights removed at an early age. One huge example is when a women becomes a "burden" to their families as the parents must pay the husband a ‘dowry’ for taking their daughter with gifts and money ranging from $5000 to $50,000.
Here is the big example of sickening treatment of women; if the husband is not satisfied with the wife or the dowry, there is a practice called ‘dowry deaths’ or ‘bride burning’. Where the wife will be doused with an accelerant and set a blaze. It is made to look like accidents or suicides and are very rarely investigated.
"But wait Forts this practice must have been done hundreds of years ago in those uncivilized years, you know before we created societies to respect one another, right?"
Nope wrong again sunshine! Get ready for this the last year on record is 2005 with wait for it, wait for it, 7026 deaths due to bride burning. My first reaction Holy J.F.C. Yes those were my exact words.
This is obviously one of the more astonishing and terrifying acts but there are day to day traditions and beliefs that render a woman on a lower peg then the sons they give birth too. Again obviously these beliefs are not ingrained in all men from India, I would hate to sound like I assume it is the entire population but the percentage is very high.
Now the men that confine their wives to the home with no choices and so on, we can let them off with reeducation of what a women is, a Human Being.
But I have an idea for all those that believe in their traditions to be right that a woman is worthless other then providing a home and male heirs and that believe wife burning or female castration for ex. First we need every woman that is affected by this horrible treatment at the hands of their brothers, husbands, and fathers to begin adding sedatives to their male counterpart’s drinking water.
Next part of my plan takes a huge international commitment. We need to clone Lorena Bobbit a couple hundred thousand times. Then we need all the C-130 Hercules we can get our hands on and load them to capacity with our newly created team of genetically modified Bobbits. Once night falls we parachute our team in armed with dull blunt blades, and let them do their job.
All that being said I am a feminist and will stand up for women's rights. The new president of India has proven in the past that she is a feminist and will fight for equality in her country. I can only hope that she will have the influence to help her country and the women that are slowly being able to progress in every field and as she said in protest to the Purday system " we should morally support and encourage them(women) by leaving such practices behind."
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In addition to some of those practices, there still exists many women who are castrated, to avoid them from enjoying sex, and are used for the pleasure of men and to bear children only. There are many disgusting practices that still exist in this world, and I hope that this women in power can help bring about positive changes for women in these countries and help empower them.
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