With due sympathy to female gender, after reading the article I feel that article only misleads and erroneously projects and escalates, provokes the sentiments.
"more than 65% Indian men also believed that women should tolerate violence to keep the family together and that women sometimes deserved to be beaten."
In which context a male has expressed this outburst of feeling is not captured here...........................
Even 65% teachers would probably say that pupils may be spanked sometimes to contain the whole class's overall obedience and order, descipline. But the very percentage and word 'spanking' simpy manages to hijack the whole discussion to a contentious area and ignores the the real intent.
Vibhuti Patel, a women's rights activist, blamed the repression of s*xuality in India for the high rate of s*xual violence. "
repression is again a relative term......one can't ignore 'distractions to mind which enflames the desires' ...there should be moderative, corrective and preventive and punitive measures, all combined together, if any one wants to achieve as less number of s*xual offenses as possible.
India has a very deep rooted culture (and it is continuously matured and progressed within framework and also gradually embraced new influences by picking the only relevant things from those) and but people due to western influence have got confused.
It is a big topic to debate on and endless.
Confluence of western culture and ancient indian culture should find a new way which takes the best of the both.
My greetings for Woman's empowerment day on tomorrow.
