Re: News article on domestic abuse amongst South Asian women in Canada
It makes me sad to realize that with the progression of time our culture is still stuck in the dark ages and tends to be draconian at times.
Not to say that domestic abuse does not take place amongst other North Americans, but the way our culture and quite a number of families forcefully send women back to such abusive lives is pathetic to say the least.
Women seem to be treated as mere objects in our culture. At times it's the parents forcing their daughter(s) into marriage, then husbands abusing, husbands and in-laws wanting grand children (sons in particular), then the wife being demanded to cook and clean often with little help.
I don't think women in our culture always get the respect and kind treatment that they deserve.
I have to agree with every fact written in this article about how the women are treated in our society. It is so sad, a plain truth.
But what I disagree to is the exaggerated sense of threat to women and the inappropriateness in stating the facts.
Not all women are "forced" into marriage, not all husbands abusing wives, what is wrong in husbands and in laws wanting kids? Isn't it one of the purpose of marriage, to raise good families as funtional and structural units of the society? Yeah, there should be nobody "dictating" on this issue about when and how many kids one couple should have.
When stating wife demanded to cook and clean, I wonder what is the right perspective of it, what is the reference point? A famliy where only men work or those where both man and woman work? A lot of women don't want to work after marriage and want to be a homemaker.....
So I think facts are picked up that, these happen but are applied to the problem in an inappropriate way. Certain regular functions have been presented making them "issues"