India today: female abortions, dowry burnings and now also dowry sex tapes
Here’s a nice little disgusting story for you:
An Indian woman has reportedly accused her husband of secretly filming her in bed and threatening to release the video unless her family paid a larger dowry. The woman, who has not been named, was told that footage of the couple in bed together would be posted onto a internet pornography site if more money was not forthcoming, the Mail Today newspaper reported.
The husband and his father have been arrested and released on bail, the newspaper said, quoting court documents. Despite being illegal, the paying of large dowries is a common occurrence in India, and there are frequent cases of brides being harassed until their families pay bigger sums.
It’s quite amazing - and revealing - how so many Indian men don’t seem to mind at all that they so loudly and publicly prove themselves to be the lowest kinds of scumbags on earth.
Mind you, disgusting as this idiot is, at least he hasn’t (threatened to) set fire to his wife - something that happens quite a lot in India. This from Wikipedia:
Bride burning has been recognized as an important public health problem in India. [...] Bride burning, a category of dowry death, occurs when a young woman is murdered by her husband or his family for her family’s refusal to pay additional dowry. In 1995 Time Magazine reported that dowry deaths in India increased from around 400 a year in the early 1980s to around 5,800 a year by the middle of the 1990s. A year later CNN ran a story saying that every year police receive more than 2,500 reports of bride burning.
It is often said that India is fast becoming a thoroughly modern country. In terms of mobile phones per person and other consumer figures that may be so but in other ways India remains a country that holds its women in very low esteem and does nothing much to protect them against vile and extremely violent attacks by men.
One figure that shows more than most how valued women are in Indian society is that of gender specific abortions. Like the following article shows:
Around 10 million female foetuses may have been aborted in India over the past two decades because of ultrasound sex screening and a traditional preference for boys, according to a study published online in The Lancet.
Researchers based in Canada and India looked through data from a national survey, conducted among 1.1 million households in 1998, and at information about 133,738 births that took place in 1997. They found that in cases where the preceding child was a girl, the gender ratio for a second birth was just 759 girls to 1,000 boys. And when the two previous children were girls, this ratio fell even further, to 719 girls to 1,000 boys.
So, making a secret sex tape of you and your wife having sex and then blackmailing your in-laws in order to get money out of them is incredibly cheap. It’s the kind of behaviour you normally see during certain political campaigns in the USA, where people who used their parents’ money and power to dodge the Vietnam draft, then ‘swiftboat’ their medal-wearing opponents.
Still, in a country where thousands of women are burnt to death by their husbands as a matter of routine and millions of girls aren’t even allowed to be born, doing a Paris Hilton to your wife hardly even registers as misogynistic abuse.
However, this incidence and the more serious statistics do reveal the truly horrible and hardly hidden face of India. Mahatma Gandhi once said poverty was the worst kind of violence - but then Mahatma wasn’t one of India’s many burnt or aborted women & girls.
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