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The "travails of being an Indian woman"

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  1. SaleemaRex

    SaleemaRex Gold IL'ite

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    I believe that significant percentage of Indian women have it bad because of their gender. The proof is the sex ratio itself.... why is it this way? Because many parents think having a girl child is a burden.

    Educated and financially better off women are in a slightly better position than the rest. Many indian women's lives directly depends upon the guy she is married to. If he is an alcoholic/abuser/cheater then her life is full of pain. If the woman is from a better socio economic background then she may have more options to walk out.... but for others?
     
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    some of the very interesting. Only hitch is length of the posts. i always struggled to write essay type answers in college. Even my thesis work could not cross 75 pages and my guide was not impressed.
     
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    Sorry! I couldn't help conjuring up an image of him with the tea and her with the tea bag!

    P.S. Who said this thread is all about serious stuff?
     
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    Rihana Moderator Staff Member IL Hall of Fame

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    But, I thought women were left holding the baby? :)
     
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    The United States justice system will never be my measuring yard for evaluating fairness :)) !! Compassion for the weaker sections should not give them unwarranted dominance over people who have done better things to deserve better outcomes. A lot of issues have been over- simplified and trivialized in the US in the name of justice.
     
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    yes, that baby's name is husband.

    I guess this is what's called as babying a man :D
     
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    didn't mean 'tea' bag, steve. The word starts with D and goes oosh.

    life is better spent dealing it with tonnes of humour. Though to my taste, it'll be the sarcastic kind. Seinfeld, anyone?
     
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    :) Answers in blue
     
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    The rhetoric I emphasized (bold text), is euphemism for the dominance of the strong at the cost of the weak. Such rhetoric has been used (is being used) for anti Affirmative action and many other causes that "trampled the weak".
     
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    We seem to be discussing deep issues from first principles, when there is actually a lot of work in social philosophy & economics on this, including some good bits of it spearheaded by Amartya Sen and his ex-girlfriend Martha Nussbaum.
    This is actually Social Studies 10001 - still serious matters of very active debate. One would have to write along essay to even delineate the issue clearly, but for anyone who wants to get to the meat of it, no modern discussion of the social contract is possible without John Rawls' "Theory of Justice" (justice as fairness) - :hiya Steve!

    A parallel approach is the 'capability approach', to which Amartya Sen has made significant contributions:
    "The capability approach is a theoretical framework that entails two core normative claims: first, the claim that the freedom to achieve well-being is of primary moral importance, and second, that freedom to achieve well-being is to be understood in terms of people's capabilities, that is, their real opportunities to do and be what they have reason to value." (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy).

    Sorry to go all academic on you guys,:hide: but, since we have so many enthusiastic participants on this thread, I assume there may be some who may want to delve deeper into the real thing!

    See:
    Justice as Fairness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    A Theory of Justice: Original Edition: John Rawls: 9780674017726: Amazon.com: Books
    Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach: Martha C. Nussbaum: 9780674050549: Amazon.com: Books
    Development as Freedom: Amartya Sen: 9780385720274: Amazon.com: Books
    The Idea of Justice: Amartya Sen: 9780674060470: Amazon.com: Books
     
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