Treatment of women in the Indian culture

[HungryDam]

Just came across this very disturbing article on BBC. I have a half Indian background so I didn't find it surprising.This paragraph sums it up well:

These offences against women and girls are a part of the story, but the full story starts with a girl not being as welcome as a boy, from birth. When sweets are distributed at the birth of a boy, not of a girl. When the boy child is nourished more than the girl, when a girl's movements are restricted and her freedoms and choices are curtailed, when she is sent as a domestic slave to her husband's homeâ?¦ If a girl is accorded no value, if a girl is worth less than a boy, then it stands to reason there will be men who believe they can do what they like with them.

m.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31698154

[PetulaGordino]

clicky link: www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31698154

this phrase (among many others) is so utterly chilling "She was beggar girl. Her life was of no value."

i have such enormous admiration for the indian women who have been protesting and standing up for their rights. the way that the film appears to show how "ordinary" men feel it is normal to talk about women and girls is horrifying

this was reported last night: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-31710244

so it looks as though the film may not yet be broadcast in india as planned