Respected Members,
There is no doubt that Family Section of LCI has been reduced to a place of useless discussions on a single point agenda. It is not necessary to reply all the irrelevant postings and nothing or any postings should hurt anyone. If it is mudslinging going on, then there is no point to be there, rather keep off from those postings.
Will revoking or diluting 498A, DV & other Acts/ laws reduce the dowry deaths and crime against women? Should we only concerned about ourselves, if yes then is it justice? Does it not show the self centeredness? Is it only women who r misusing the laws? Is only men who r sufferers?
Whether innocent girls get killed brutally due to dowry, due to likes or dislikes, get tortured, let the domestic violence continue, let them go to hell or anywhere, but make us (women haters) safe and protect us and our interests, and allow us to do the things we want/wish that’s all we (women haters/bashers) want and our demand is?
We forget that women too belong to the same society and are not from any other part of universe. The kind of person we will be the kind of our daughters will be, as half of the genes comes from men. So, it is obvious that they surely will inherit some of the traits and behaviors of their fathers. So, are we not responsible? If there is “Lafanga” element in men then why should not we expect same in women also? But in spite of all we must remember and admit this fact that “The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.”
Also just go thru’ the statements of these two great presidents of such an advanced country, in which they have shown their concern.
This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths. Nor, tragically, does its influence stop at the walls of the church, mosque, synagogue or temple. This discrimination, unjustifiably attributed to a Higher Authority, has provided a reason or excuse for the deprivation of women's equal rights across the world for centuries. At its most repugnant, the belief that women must be subjugated to the wishes of men excuses slavery, violence, forced prostitution, genital mutilation and national laws that omit rape as a crime. But it also costs many millions of girls and women control over their own bodies and lives, and continues to deny them fair access to education, health, employment and influence within their own communities.... The truth is that male religious leaders have had -- and still have -- an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter.
JIMMY CARTER, "Losing My Religion for Equality"
The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women. If it's educating its girls, if women have equal rights, that country is going to move forward. But if women are oppressed and abused and illiterate, then they're going to fall behind.
BARACK OBAMA, Ladies' Home Journal, Sep. 2008
The problem is mainly affecting Punjab, Haryana and Delhi, and these states tops in the list of all kind of abuse, be it dowry death, or crime against women.
It is better to wage war against social evils, corruption and faulty legal system etc. than against women.
