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We found a variety of interesting reads this week. What have you been reading this week?
Jim Yardley, the South Asia Bureau Chief of The New York Times, writes about India’s traditional silence about rape.
Here’s a funny and unfortunately accurate ‘Republican Party’s Rape Advisory Chart’. Zerlina writes on the constant talk about rape by Republican men from the perspective of a rape survivor.
News channels and websites, and social media extensively covered Hurricane Sandy this week. But why are journalists and scientists calling Sandy a “bitch”, or a “whore”? Is Talking about storms like promiscuous women a symptom of a misogynist culture?
Jill Filipovic a blogger at Feministe, comments on a controversial article about the “conflict” between housewifery and feminism.
Here’s a comical account of Kit-Bacon Gressitt, a feminist who was invited to make promotional calls for the Romney-Ryan campaign. Kit also cannot understand how women can vote for Romney.
Laura Beck at Jezebel hilariously recaps 52 ridiculous weight-loss tips a magazine recently released.
Women who work and have kids are “working mothers”. Why aren’t fathers with jobs called “working dads”, wonders Ken Gordon.
“One of the few remaining vestiges of institutional misogyny and torpid conservatism can be seen in the armed forces of most countries,” says Jaideep Prabhu, doctoral student at Vanderbilt University.
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She would serve everyone fresh food and serve herself the stale rice and curries from the previous meal. Some days after finishing the leftovers she was so full she would not even be able to even taste the fresh food.
When I married the first time, my MIL told me that during the Navratri the lady of the house should not eat stale food. ‘Gharatlya bai ni shila khau naye’ — in refined upper caste Marathi.
I was just 26, eager to please, not versed in patriarchy or feminism, and it seemed like a positive thing — respect for the goddess in woman.
But soon I realised she spent the remaining 356 days of her year finishing leftovers. And that I was expected to do the same.
We say that we live in modern times and talk on subjects like feminism, supporting your loved ones, encouraging them to follow their dreams. But how many of us can really say that they actually do that?
We live in a world where there comes times in everyone’s life when one has to make choices which will leave a long term impact in not just their life but on the lives of those attached to them.
Giving the ones you claim to love the freedom and space to make their own choices and the wings to fly is not only the right thing to do but sometimes its also the thing they need the most; without having to face the ‘guilt’ of living the life they want.