Originally Posted by
travelmad478
Timely opinion piece in the NY Times on this topic. As noted above: it's not about what you're wearing, it's certainly not just a matter of men who are drunk, and it's not about being foreign. It's about disrespect of women...all of them.
I am curious if the writer is related to a friend of mine.
Originally Posted by NYT
.... what India desperately needs is a women’s revolution, led by men. Fathers, sons, grandfathers, brothers, uncles, nephews, boyfriends, husbands, lovers who are comfortable with the rise of their women. Men who don’t feel emasculated by the success of their women. Men who don’t need to demonstrate their physical dominance privately, when they’re unable to match their women’s achievements in the public sphere. Men who are happy to step back and watch their women lead the way.
I think her second to last paragraph shows her age and her lack of time spent in India, but I guess playing up the following contradiction wouldn't necessarily play as well. Is she not familiar with the rise and fall and rise again of the woman who led India before, during and again a couple of years after Emergency Rule? Is she not familiar with her daughter-in-law?
It almost seems she has bought into the cultural prejudice used by a JetBlue employee against Aditya Mukherjee when he tried flying out of JFK but the ETD alarms kept going off despite no explosives on his person.