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Getting the feels 🖤 Pic: @troublemaker_196 . . . . . #giglife #oktoberfestgoa #oktoberfest2019 #bass #take5iveindia #take5iveofficial #gigphotography #giger #goanband https://www.instagram.com/p/B4q5WmNDHHk/?igshid=1a5yi1e4i8wg2

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Rocked this show 🤘🏼🎸 Pic credit: @troublemaker_196 . . . . . . #oktoberfest #oktoberfest2019 #giglife #take5iveindia #take5iveofficial #oktoberfestgoa #bullseyeentertainment https://www.instagram.com/p/B4hbLOKjP8A/?igshid=1cmzwt4uzwr05

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Oktoberfest 2019 Pic Credit: @lobonolan https://www.instagram.com/p/B4ePtPtDgt0/?igshid=mjr4u8omz996

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Working on my next LoFi track and my PC just decided to crash. After a lot of frustration and reinstalling shit. . . . . . . . . . #ableton #abletonlive10 #abletonpush2 #lofi #hiphop #lofihiphop https://www.instagram.com/p/B3utT12jpZg/?igshid=uff6m2psp5s2

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Take 5ive at the BMW Motorrad GS Trophy event. . . . . . . #bmw #motorrad #bike #bmwmotorrad #corporateevents #gstrophy2020 #gstrophy #gstrophy2019 #novotel #novotelhotel #giglife #band #take5iveindia (at Novotel Goa Dona Sylvia Resort, Cavelossim, Goa, India) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2_JSSAD68g/?igshid=wxp47ll53xld

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Gig life . . . . . . . #fireflies #pedritos #Take5iveindia #bass #jamesonwhiskey #giglife #goa #benaulim #nightlife (at Firefly at pedrito's) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1UBuOtDTZA/?igshid=1jloh3rorso61

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Gig life . . . . . . . #fireflies #pedritos #Take5iveindia #bass #jamesonwhiskey #giglife #goa #benaulim #nightlife (at Firefly at pedrito's) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1UBuOtDTZA/?igshid=1jloh3rorso61

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Amber !! . . . . #bored #boredaf #giglife #musicianlife #lol https://www.instagram.com/p/B0DApXMDIZy/?igshid=nhqx5nmiqwnt

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Throwback !! #giglife #outstation #atr #clouds #fishermanswharf #hydrabad (at The Fisherman's Wharf Hyderabad) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz45oyaDWn4/?igshid=141wppte84zg1

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Set up!! . . . . . #acoustic #Take5iveindia #bass #cort #trio #theoakbarrel (at The Oak Barrel) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz3JFhIDb49/?igshid=m7gaem6aywqq

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To be important to society, a woman simply has to be. A man has to ‘do’ to have any value to anyone but himself

Karen Straughan Feminism and the Disposable Male

"Our society reduces men from human being to human doings.  We measure a man’s worthiness to wear the title of "man", and therefor the title of human, by how useful he is."

The “patriarchy” didn’t create this.  Human culture created this.  The sexism goes both ways.  The standard is different.  As Karen beautifully put in her video Feminism and the Disposable Male, it is an expectation that men put themselves last every single time.  A seat on a life boat, a guide out of a burning building, the one who has to go see what the noise was in the middle of the night.  For every damsel in distress there is a man who is expected to save her, and that’s a stereotype on both parts.  Is it particularly dehumanizing to either party?  Yes, and that party is the man. 

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Karen Straughan. Someone with some of the best arguments against feminism ever.

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Wake up feminists

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Based on a real-life story by Paul Elam.

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It happened again, this time very close to me. A young boy (my cousin), who had fallen in love with the “innocence” of this girl, was cheated—and cheated beyond explanation. She was a dream to him; he was a tissue for her. He married her to make a home; she married him for society’s tag. She loved another man, and this marriage was just part of the plan! He felt humiliated. She felt victorious. He did not want her to go. She wanted a divorce. He consented to an amicable separation. She cried, DOWRY! My cousin was given two choices: divorce with a huge sum or a dowry case and his family behind bars!

I accompanied my cousin to meet a retired judge and seek guidance. There had been no dowry demand and the girl was lying. “Truth has no significance,” the judge said. “As a husband, you can do nothing to save you and your family if she wants to file a dowry case. It doesn’t matter if you are right or she is wrong. What she says is right.” I was enraged. I told him that we had evidence! He laughed, saying, “A woman isn’t punished for adultery in this country. However, she can file endless false cases against you, get you arrested under 498A, and make you run around courts for years until you satisfy her demands. She’s a woman.”

My cousin was also extorted. I saw his family’s trauma and his transition from a cheerful boy to a shattered man. I still can’t forget his screams.

This is an article by a woman from India, talking about several ways men she knew got screwed over. Last time I checked, India does not have gender-neutral rape laws, and an attempt by the government to rectify the problem was successfully resisted by the country’s women’s advocates. Also;

The misuse of laws isn’t the only issue. Another problem is the absolute apathy toward the problems of men. There is no law in India that recognizes violence toward men by his spouse/partner. There is no law in India to analyze the abuse of men by women. There is no law in India that clocks murders/burnings/suicides of married men by their wives or in-laws (like dowry deaths of women). India’s domestic violence act—which recognizes emotional, economical, physical, and sexual violence—doesn’t accept men as the victims of any of this violence. Despite the fact that the number of men committing suicide in India is twice the number of women, there is not a single helpline dedicated to men. And forget about having any laws for married men; if a married man who is abused uses his only option—divorce—he can rest assured that his wife will launch a dozen similar cases against him. So from being a victim he becomes an accused!

And remember, this is from a supposedly Patriarchal country.

Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj is currently making a documentary about the aforementioned sexist 498A law. You can find the trailer in the article.

Previously in India:

That Vogue Empower commercial is sexist.

Women using rape laws for vengeance, Delhi high court says - Times of India.