Is our culture unfair to women? - Page 2

thank god someone posted this topic!!!!! 😆 finally i hate it when men are considered above women, it happens in the smallest things. for example i have to do tons more housework and my brother dont, i get lectures on how i have to learn how to cook otherwise who will want to marry me etc. 😡
in response i say the man who judges me on how i cook will be a pig 😡 and i would never love or marry him. why is it women suffer when they work the hardest, they are the reason men even exist. sorry really had to express myself 😆

I wouldn't say that our culture is unfair to women because originally, our culture has respected women and has given them the status of a goddess.

But our society has turned into a sexist and patriarchial society. I don't know if I am right here but it is probably because of the british influence when they ruled here.

However recently things are changing and women are becoming more independent than ever.

Originally posted by: indiaforums1234

I wouldn't say that our culture is unfair to women because originally, our culture has respected women and has given them the status of a goddess.

But our society has turned into a sexist and patriarchial society. I don't know if I am right here but it is probably because of the british influence when they ruled here.

However recently things are changing and women are becoming more independent than ever.

It started with the Mughal Empire and the British Prudishness made it worse !! After that it became worse as nobody knew what to follow !

I so agree with you on every single word you said. I don't understand why in our culture women are traited so unfair, and why men are treated superior to women. Parents are usually so happy when they have a son, and they give no crap wen they have a daughter. Though in the end it is almost always the daughter who really takes care of her parents in their old age, adn supports them.

For me, there was never any sexism from my parents between my and my brothers. We were all treated fairly, and considering I am the only girl and the oldest, I got more priveleges. Anyways I don't get why women are treated as useless working machines. I mean if there were no women, there would be no men. Women are the great beings that carry the children in their tummies, even th emale children. So if there were no women, there would also not be any men. Or wait, maybe I should take that back... nowadays with all this technology anything is possible, even men having children with men!.. YUCK!

I agree with most of you here. Our culture is unfair to women. However, not only our culture all culture are more or less biased and try to suppress women. Girls in our culture are restricted by their father, lots of people has lots of expectation from their daughter-in-law compared to expectation from a son-in-law. And I have seen some people in my family itself who would get happy with birth of male child, which is just outrageous. Our society pretend to have moved forward, but our thinking still remain shallow when it comes to dealing with girls. I was just reading this article from CNN yesterday and I could not sleep all night thinking about that cruel men.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/12/28/pakistan.honor.a p/index.html This is recent incident from Pakistan, but I am sure there are such incidents in India too.

I guess theory of "survival of fittest" also applies here. Women are physical weak than men. And if we look at animals, kids, all want to supress the one who is weaker. This could only be solved if that stronger one would not suppress weaker one. I agree with you women are not treated equally as men even in educated class. This is really frustrating. However, someone who can chage this situation apart from women herself is men. To an extend younger generation is changing and have started to accept women who can walk with them shoulder to shoulder. I think it's in our father, brother, husband and son's hands to make us realize that same law applies to us as it applies to them and that we deserve equal amout of freedom, right to make our own decisions and right to live our life our own way.

Originally posted by: bgdesai

I agree with most of you here. Our culture is unfair to women. However, not only our culture all culture are more or less biased and try to suppress women. Girls in our culture are restricted by their father, lots of people has lots of expectation from their daughter-in-law compared to expectation from a son-in-law. And I have seen some people in my family itself who would get happy with birth of male child, which is just outrageous. Our society pretend to have moved forward, but our thinking still remain shallow when it comes to dealing with girls. I was just reading this article from CNN yesterday and I could not sleep all night thinking about that cruel men.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/12/28/pakistan.honor.a p/index.html This is recent incident from Pakistan, but I am sure there are such incidents in India too.

I guess theory of "survival of fittest" also applies here. Women are physical weak than men. And if we look at animals, kids, all want to supress the one who is weaker. This could only be solved if that stronger one would not suppress weaker one. I agree with you women are not treated equally as men even in educated class. This is really frustrating. However, someone who can chage this situation apart from women herself is men. To an extend younger generation is changing and have started to accept women who can walk with them shoulder to shoulder. I think it's in our father, brother, husband and son's hands to make us realize that same law applies to us as it applies to them and that we deserve equal amout of freedom, right to make our own decisions and right to live our life our own way.

bgdesai , i was not shocked about honor killing since i know this is a sad reality .I love to read and have read so many true memoirs and accounts of honor killing and female genital mutilation . These are very serious henoius crimes taking place against women all over Asia .Read author- Jean Sassoon - she's accounted lives of Royalty living in Saudi Arabia . Mirage- Soheir Khashogi , My Forbidden Face, Zoya's story ( woman's stuggle under Taliban rule) ,Do they hear you when you cry ( female mutilation) Burned alive (honor killing). These are either true stories or stories written by women living in oppresed enviorment.

women in our culture have it hard so i agree we should educate our men so they dont do horrible stuff. like i know for a fact that my brother believes in women's rights because my mom and i r constantly yelling at him and saying we wont let him turn into a sexist pig like other men of our culture. he believes in women's rights and he respects women and i believe if more women like my mother started telling there sons to respect women then we would have much less of this problem.