This isn't me defending Indian scrotes or trying to paint India as some kind of feminist paradise btw. I'm well aware that my family is from one of the more liberalized parts of India which values women. And I love visiting my family, but I will never agree to stay there and have an arranged marriage like I know they want me to. My experience is vastly different from the women and girls who actually have to live in the more underdeveloped parts of the country full time
But at the same time, it's kinda wierd because I've grown up hearing about all kinds of atrocities against women like what happened in this article, sex selective abortion, packs of men teaming up to break into houses in order to gang rape 7 year olds, and videos of travel vloggers getting sexually assaulted in broad daylight....
but whenever I try to bring this up to my mom she gets really angry and is all like "how dare you talk about Indian men this way. You do realize that includes your uncles and male cousins right?"
And the thing is... she's right. My uncles have never done anything but dote on me and spoil me rotten whenever I visit. And my male cousins are amazing fellows who I love so much. If there was ever such a thing as a male feminist, they would be the closest thing this world has to one.
And honestly, in India, my experience as a woman hasn't been so bad either (I don't want to live there because I don't like Indian food and I have a phobia of of lizards, which keep showing up in the houses). The worst thing that's ever happened to me was when I got groped in a mall and even then, it wasn't even that bad in hindsight.
Anyways, it's just really wierd hearing/learning about how the place you grew up and spent every summer as a child is actually hell on earth for women, and that the men you love are simply outliers for one of the most viciously misogynistic cohort of scrotes to ever exist. That's basically the point of this post. Rambling over
A lot of Westerners don't realize just how many people India has.
There was that gangrape that killed that desi girl about a decade ago, and we read about that without taking into account how Indias female prime minister expressed sympathy and the nation recoiled in horror.
You guys also had a LOT of goddess worship and historic periods of female freedom that would make the modern western woman cry tears of joy.
Even Western countries used to kill baby girls by putting us in pots and letting us freeze a few hundred years ago.
All men from all nations antagonize us. Your men aren't worse than mine in the grand scheme of things, I promise.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/01/ohio-rape-baby/2126323/.
If it's not female, it's not safe, and I have more in common with YOU as a White woman than I do with this guy. ^