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irresistible-revolution: kheldara: mahakavi: kertik: worldcoups: iscrystalmethvegan: trishathebrown: baawri:Barkha Dutt, of NDTV, shuts down white feminism at the Women in the World summit in New York City. [X] This is utterly fantastic. yeah noindira gandhi was only prime minister because of the family she was born intomost female politicians in india are only politicians because of their family connections to male politiciansalso anytime you hear “the us has worse sexual assault stats than india” please distrust that shit: india has massively, massively underreported sexual assault rates compared to the western world, our real rates of sexual assault are almost positively MUCH MUCH HIGHER than in the developed worldindia has paid maternity leave? lololol okay. maybe in the formal sector, which is like 9% of the indian economy and represents the wealthiest, most educated, most powerful workers. tell that to the millions and millions of pregnant laborers and household workers who can’t afford to take a sick day because their scummy employers will fire them from their less than $2/day job and hire the next starving woman in line ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^there’s a way to say fuck off to white feminism for bringing its decontextualized savior bullshit into the country and making things, historically and presently, far far worse because of sheer lack of context and knowledge of conditions and culture on the ground for indian women, without having to glorify or sanitize india’s patriarchal society and violent history against women, especially dalit and muslim women. Barkha Dutt just hit the rock bottom.And talking about “shutting down white feminism”, bringing up a woman Prime Minister, bringing up maternity leave in discussions of violence against women is undoubtedly the whitest feminism. But if people really want to talk about paid maternity leave then don’t side eye maternal mortality rate where India is ranked 55th worst (x). India also has the highest number of maternal deaths (x)11% representation of women in parliament isn’t exactly impressive, it’s also much behind USA and UK (x). Also considering the women reservation bill getting so much heat currently, these stats aren’t going to change anytime soon.facts are facts, whether or not you’d like to hear them from Leslee Udwin. India is a graveyard of women rights. Indira Gandhi was an awful Prime Minister. She was vehemently anti-Sikh and anti-Muslim, and the period during which she declared a state of Emergency in India was filled with multiple atrocities committed by her administration, including a mass forced sterilization campaign. She’s not someone to be looked up to. And whatever Udwin’s motives might have been re: discussion of women’s rights in India (can’t ignore the white saviour undertones), facts are still facts. #white savior feminism is awful and detrimental as fuck#but this is just straight up denial of the suffering of brown women just to not lose face in front of white people#like i’m honestly so sick of people on this site romanticizing shit in the global south and poc communities just to prove some point#i know a lot of it is because we’ve been put down and labeled as lesser for generations#you can still dismantle internalized racism and fight against oppression while acknowledging oppressive systems within your communities#and in the case of india/the indian subcontinent#colonization and its continued impact is DEFINITELY a large factor in many of its problems#it’s not like the countries that white feminists hail from should get a free pass in honest discussions about these issues#but that doesn’t mean we can scapegoat or in this case whitewash and deny the existence of these problems #let’s talk about female infanticide#dowries#casteism – especially as regards dalit women#homophobia#and the sheer scale of atrocities that women constantly face#and do all that without comparing it to the west#because as a country it is overrun with problems and there is NOTHING to be gained for india by turning the conversation#gender is not more complex than we think barkha dutt#whenever i’m in delhi i wish i felt as safe to do the things i do in london#and that’s about as complex as it gets.#i’m the wrong kind of girl for my own motherland and that is a fucking tragedy.I’ve been waiting for this take down ^^^^^^^ -- source link
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