Ishwa helper Reged: 03/03/02 Posts: 553

Re: Proposal Grants: Empowering Hindu Women [Re: Vishal_Agarwal] #13433 - 03/14/02 05:18 PM Edit Reply Quote

Western feminism is a western way of giving liberation to women who were put in backward positon by that very western male-dominated system. So it is basically a solution to a problem of their own system. India has had waves of many foreign ideas, like marxist-socialism/communism. This is again such a trendy system that is not only foreign but looks alien too to Indian society. Indian 'feminism' can only be something totally different, if such a term really exists. Indian values must be checked according to their own system, which is so different from western ideas. Liberation in the west is a kind of individualization, but in reality is a groupmentality system in which the individual is a number and has the outlook to being individual and liberal, but it is in reality a-social: neighbours don't bother, or when they do it's to argue. There's certainly liberation in information and exploitation, what is called freedom of expression. And women suffer, even if they think to be liberated through feminism or emancipation. At what costs: divorces are very normal, the productive demographic group has many single and lonesome persons in many western countries. How could feminist women from the west liberate women from the third world? They can't even liberate themselves, They are prisoners of their own liberated system. How arrogant to liberate others, just like missionaries wanted to liberate heithens. Women from the west must handle their own problems: networks of (children's) porn, premature pregnancy and abortion, divorces, etc. What about women as objects seen in advertisements, etc. Is the liberation not still within the frames of a male-oriented society, though the male domination is waning? Every country, society, family, couple, individual should reform according to their own system. To start cleaning you have to start at your own home. It is easy to be a saint abroad, especially if you offer a surrogate solution, with a lot of money in your pocket from the very society that abuses the people you want to liberate. Let them first handle that problem of deploiting third world countries. What Hindu society has to do is not to depend on the opinion or approval of others, and restrengthen itself by its own means and merits, as it has always done. And that very restrengthening starts with women, with a mother! Hindu society depends on the very basic words for parents: Matr is from ma=to create and Pitr from pa=to protect. The mother creates the atmosphere for the child to develop amd the father protects that atmosphere for both mother and children. Wife and husband are Bharya and bhartr both from br=to bear or carry, the husband is the bearer and the wife is beared by the husband with dignity and honours = respecter and respected. A Dampatya is the name for their being a couple, as dam=home and patya = ownership. They're equal, performing together the important Grhya or home rituals , etc. Hindus have not only a Sita, but also a Savitri. Women who have almost no equals elsewhere. It was because of the honour of Sita and Draupadi that the wars were fought. Hindus have many solutions themselves for their problems. But it must be their own solution within their own system that should be given chances. Hindus (women and men) should again be proud of being a Hindu no matter what anyone else says.