Regressive insights
Zoey is appalled to find some seriously regressive “dreck” in a recent issue of Insight: Creating Awareness, a Delhi-based magazine:
“Studies show that the concept of woman liberalization and empowerment was highly misunderstood. Late night parties, drugs and immoral dressing were tagged as freedom of women. What we forgot was that this is not our culture and this is not even what our women wanted.” (One: What studies? Two: What kind of dressing is “immoral”? Three: What is your culture? Four: What DO your women want?)
2 comments
Tony Tharakan
March 20th, 2007, 6:20 pm | #
Can’t believe this was apparently published in a 21st-century Indian magazine. Who reads this crap?
Lokapala
March 21st, 2007, 9:51 am | #
Tony, many more Indians read “crap” like this article than perhaps the kind of sophisticated writing that you’re accustomed to. An even larger share believes in the views expressed in it, and in the story of urban India’s collapsing moral backbone.
Oh, I’m sorry. I must be “regressive.”
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