Felt a bit sorry for the husband of the woman stoned to death by her family outside the courtroom in Lahore. Till he explained that he wanted to marry her so much, that he strangled his previous wife to get rid of her.
Feel like slapping the police who were contemptuous of the female journalists covering the rape and hanging of the Dalit girls, as in "What's your problem? Do you feel unsafe or something?" (no they are just shocked by human beings in their own country being raped and killed, and don't view the victims as nothing just because they were female and low caste).
Feel awful for the sister of the girl killed by acid burns from her parents (mummy and daddy helpfully explained the motive - that she looked at a boy on a motorbike- twice- and thus obviously deserved it and it was her "destiny" to die that way). Good luck to the sister growing up in that family...
For a subcontinent that has produced a lot of entrepreneurs, scientists and otherwise go-ahead enlightened people....jeez its attitude to women (and poor people) is fucked up.
The more I've read over the past 2 weeks the more I began to hope to discover that it's all some big internet fake designed to wind people up. But sadly, not.
Btw, what's with the acid? Do the honour-obsessed families just keep a vat of the stuff standing by to fling over the female members if they lift their eyes off the ground or push a head covering back past one ear? Or do they have to order it in specially? ("Oh yes, DD is grounded till Wednesday when the acid order arrives and we can burn her horrifically then")