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The OP in particular seems directly relevant to both sides of the general debate over Feminism as an ideology. It seems obvious to me that the situation they're describing arrived through attempts to solve valid, legible problems identified by feminism, and is a demonstration of how Feminist solutions aren't sufficient in and of themselves.
Specifically, my understanding is that second/third world laws written by westerners to ‘protect women’ are often actual causes for serious complaint by men in countries like India and Mexico, where in the U.S. and Western Europe divorce rape mostly isn’t a thing and most other examples are things where someone has to get the short end of the stick.
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To steelman: There's an argument, and a pretty solid one, that SJ is mostly the same across US/England/Ireland/Canada/Australia/NZ/France/Germany/Scandinavia (as a product of its online emergence) - there's a lot of variation in the strength and some variation in the type of movements opposing SJ, but the issues are mostly the same. My understanding is that while there is some cross-pollination, India's culture wars are substantially different.
They aren't that different since humans share quite a bit and India was under British rule for a while whilst also having had a native morality not far off from the north west, closer to scandis than to ancient Greeks.
I mostly post non Indian stuff since India simply adopts and reacts to whatever happens in the west but there are some things where it's ahead, for instance one of the worst run not bioleninism infested state is named Bihar where transsexuals can get government to pay for gender reassignment surgery. NHS doing so or even the US having massive subsidies for this is an outcome I'd bet on if it isn't already there.
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Thanks. I do not want themotte to become an extension of Indian culture war or have a signficant presence either. I post some links mostly to show the downstream effects of the western world and its values. Divorce Rape is a very common threat that was introduced here by liberal secular influences.
Appreciate the sentiment. I think op was slightly worried since other places in the past got run over and not by the good kind of south asians. Median mottizen is a west dweller so an inkling towards matters closer to thier turf is understandable though I am fairly confident that this wont turn into indiachan.
Precisely. Most feminists motte and bailey around this, so I kinda saw this story as a universal thing. India explains the pitfalls of bioleninism better than the west, in ways that can also demonstrate the destructive potential of having rabid feminist laws and having a state interfering with your domestic matters. Spandrell in his essay on the post mortem of neo reaction noted that the allure of a "strong government" is frightening as of today with covid being a good demonstration of it. No matter where you live, governments will try to meddle with your life more and more, bureaucratic setups need to find more problems to justify their existence and increase their scope of power.
Power is like money, if you dont then someone else will grab it. It was quite common to see ludicrous statements and judgements from english courts on twitter where they would let some south asian rapist walk without proper punishment or go light on women. Its effects are literally seen in the opposite ends of the world thanks to globalisation and tech growth.
For what it's worth I appreciate that you post stories about India (and similarly I appreciate that @Folamh3 posts about Ireland). This site tends towards American events but that isn't inherent to its mission and I'm glad we get these perspectives on other parts of the world. It's true that sometimes I will scroll past posts about other countries because they aren't interesting to me, but the same is true just as often of the posts about America too.
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