Yesterday a man has just beheaded his sister for family honour.
Tag Archive: Patriarchy
Oct 24 2012
That Grandmothers Were Crucial for Human Evolution!
Grandmothering was the initial step toward making us who we are. For years, anthropologists and evolutionary biologists have struggled to explain the existence of menopause, a life stage that humans do not share with our primate relatives. Why would it be beneficial for females to stop being able to have children with decades still left …
Oct 10 2012
Humanity needs more Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai received Pakistan’s first National youth Peace Prize from Pakistan’s prime minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani. Malala’s diary when she was 11 years old in 2009: THURSDAY JANUARY 15: NIGHT FILLED WITH ARTILLERY FIRE The night was filled with the noise of artillery fire and I woke up three times. But since there was no …
Sep 10 2012
Lioness works hard
It is amazing to see the lioness hunting. They work hard to bring food home. The lion sleeps and waits for food. Most men in the Indian subcontinent never visit a kitchen. They are just like lazy lions. They like to call themselves lions ( for muscles and strength) or powerful patriarchs. Remember the cartoon?
Sep 05 2012
Some famous male writers in Bengal are worse than Muslim religious fanatics.
”It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.”— Noel Coward Religious fanatics issue fatwas and demand the book banning of the writers who challenge them. Their demonstrations and processions end to a cul-de-sac or to a mosque. But megalomaniac, misogynistic, macho male writers and their male dominated media …
Aug 06 2012
Why I am a Feminist – Bina Shah
As a child in Pakistan, I grew up observing the lives of the women in my father’s family. Members of a type of religious nobility who claim lineage from the Prophet Muhammed, they followed the traditions of the Prophet’s wives and segregated themselves from all men outside their own blood relatives – a system known …
Aug 05 2012
A bizarre barbaric system mixed with religion, misogyny, patriarchy practiced by millions
Khap is a powerful social institution. It exists in Jat Hindu community in some states of Northern India. Some elderly men set rules for everyone. You do not follow the rules, you get severe punishment. Khap does not allow people to marry in the same gotra or clan. It is believed that millions of people living in …
Aug 04 2012
Why I am a Feminist – Eva
‘Growing up in Lithuania, I was completely oblivious to feminism. I had no idea something like that existed, and I was blind to the fact that I lived in an extremely misogynistic country. It all changed somewhere around four years ago, not with a direct encounter with feminism, but with a website called TV Tropes. …
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