#Equality in India

[manasastuff-blog]

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[enigma-the-mysterious]

Diversity wins! The Supreme Court of India, that refuses to legalize same sex marriage, has granted equal marriage rights to heterosexual transgender marriages. They are being homophobic but in a trans friendly way

[vidhi-vsgaur]

WE LIVE IN A "INDIA"?

We live in a INDIA where women's are worshiped at days,

But get gang raped at night!

We live in a India where a rapist or criminal can go to temple but a bleeding women can't!

We live in a India where women's are "allowed" to work but still be expected to do all the household!

We live in a India where we proud to be landed on moon but why still be ashamed of menstruation!

We live in a India where a women is "allowed" to study but still be expected to get married by 22!

We live in a India where we say daughter's and son's are equal but why still doctors hide the gender till the birth?

We live in a India where a father gives his life income in dowry but why not on her education?

We live in a India where we talk about all the equality but why no one talks about the unequality of only women leaving her home?

We live in a India where sons are asked for their graduation/ income but why daughter's are asked for what can they cook?

We live in a India where men's can urinate in public but why women still be questioned on a skirt?

We live in a India where a good women goes to heaven but the bad one goes anywhere she wants!

And Yes, sometimes I'm not proud to say I live in India!.

~Vidhi Vikram Singh Gaur

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

i explain india but i'm drunk.

Hello maggots of mine you're all such babygirls and bastards just like Aziraphale and Crowley. I'm so proud of you all for existing. Yes i'm a wholesome drunk you now know this about me. The wine tastes like rotten grapes and smells of battery acid and cost 245 rupees INR. Speaking of INR, thanks to a maggot's ask, I'm here to explain India. I've never set foot outside of this country. But I'm also very very shit at general knowledge.

To any non-Indians reading this, this is a totally legit 1000% everything covered all-inclusive summary. To any Indians reading this, I'm so so fucking sorry.

India, explained.

So there's south india and there's north india and there's north east india. north india is very racist about south india and they're both very racist about north east india. Most of these people are also probably racist either to other countries or they have internalised racism. It's a wild trip.

There are. A lot of languages here. And a LOT of scripts. I can read two scripts, understand four Indian languages and speak in two of them (badly), and those two are not my native tongues. I cannot speak in my native tongues. It's basically English at this point. These aren't dialects, those are separate. Picture like, Europe, but more, in terms of how many languages.

Everyone hates each other which is valid for the entire planet honestly.

In south india we have a lot of coconuts. Like a lot. There are so many coconuts you have no fucking idea guys you cannot escape the coconuts. I was nearly killed by a shower of coconuts when I was 5 I escaped by one second.

There are also cows. People will tell you that you are being racist when you say India has cows everywhere. But it's true. Two weeks ago I had the pleasure to be stuck in a traffic jam. Next to the street barrier thing (what divides a street im too drunk for this) I saw a huge bull fucking HUMPING a cow. The vehicles just had to move around them. They were having sex right there.

If you're a middle class Indian kid, your career options are: doctor, engineer, scientist, CA, lawyer, government official or family disappointment.

Needless to say, I was going to be doctor and am now instead family disappointment. I'm babygirling so hard it's insane. The prodigal son.

It's very ace-friendly and heterophobic in the sense that you are not supposed to be exhibiting any sexuality whatever in a respectable household. Just shut up and give virgin birth already. But be married. That's crucial.

Oh yeah gay marriage isn't legal trans people are constantly othered by society and/or given no respect whatsover and we're just all vibing here this is totally not why I'm finishing a small bottle of cheap wine on a thursday past midnight alone in my room.

Foreigners are like a zoo species you see them you're instantly concerned like what are they doing outside the TV screens and then either people are normal (rarely), they run up and take photos or try to slip into conversation (more often than you'd think, even I've been guilty of the conversation thing as a kid) OR they start talking about how 'this western culture is ruining our culture'. Which is fair but honestly both the 'cultures' these people are talking about usually involve incredible amounts of bigotry and are more similar than they think.

I think the lesson here is that humans just suck as a species. Except for you maggots. I love you all and I will defend you with my life.

THE CHAAT. THE CHAAT IS INSANELY AMAZING. YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE CHAAT. I HAVE NO SPICE TOLERANCE SO I HAVE TO BEG ON MY KNEES FOR THE SPICES TO BE REDUCED BUT STILL. THE CHAAT. THE CHAAT, YOU GUYS. YOU NEED IT.

Sorry yes I'm normal. ALSO THE STREET DOGS. THE INDIES. THEY'RE SO LOVELY AND SWEET AND CHAOTIC AND I KEEP TALKING TO THEM. Once when I was crying I made the dog distress while and like five dogs that I didn't know came running to me and comforted me and licked me.

INDIAN DANCE MUSIC. I FUCKING LOVE IT IT'S INSANE. My family were elitist as fuck so I never got to listen to Bollywood music as a kid but it's AMAZING I'm so glad it exists. Bhangra too.

Beaches very very pretty hills very very pretty honestly the nature is fucking beautiful if you can just quickly pretend humans don't exist, which again is true of this entire planet. Yeah. Okay I'm so fucking drunk.

Yeah lots of diversity which is very nice when the humans aren't screaming at each other about it but the rest of the time it's very nice

The garbage and sewer stories? yeah they're all true im sorry

Traffic rules more like traffic suggestions amirite

Well, we still have far better healthcare access than america. so. there is that.

If you speak English well you'll be mocked and isolated. If you speak English poorly you'll be mocked and isolated. Honestly, just be rich. That'll fix it all.

All the conservatives hate each other and don't realise they're the exact same but in like different flavours.

Oh yeah we have auto rickshaws. Look them up. They're so much better than cars I don't get motion sick as easily in them. But the drivers all hate you and never want to take you anywhere.

Eyyyyyyyyyy it's so fucking fun here *drinsk more alcohol* I am so fucking not looking forward to college.

Please someone crowdfund me out of here let's all go chill in Alpha Centauri I've heard it's nice this time of the year.

I will, however, miss the casual live cow pornos. A true highlight.

[I got this peer-reviewed by my friend in India's top law school, just in case, because I'm too drunk and generally dumb. They say I will not be killed. And they've been on Twitter so.]

Irrefutable legal proof y'all. I don't mean to offend anyone except bigots. Fuck you, bigots, if you're not offended then I've disappointed my community.

[leftistfeminista]

In Kerala India, women formed a nearly 400 mile long "wall" of between 3 to 5 million women, organized in part by the Communist Party of India (marxist), as they fight for gender equality in India and against religious gender segregation

[gold-dust-angel]

Good to see this trending even though I have no idea why suddenly today but—

A historic debate on marriage equality and legalising same-sex marriage is underway in the Supreme Court of India. The Union govt. is against it of course but the SC judges and the lawyers representing the petitioners are very progressive. The recordings of the live hearings are up on youtube and worth watching because the arguments in favor are just ✨chef's kiss✨ The verdict is yet to be out but I'm really hopeful. Anxious but hopeful. So far the CJI's statements point to a positive outcome for the queer community but let's wait and watch. It's gonna be epic🌈

[pudinaluvr]

"the concerned authorities must take action", says concerned authority

[saddayfordemocracy]

Sujata Setia, "A Thousand Cuts," 2024,

For centuries in southeast Asia, lingchi was employed as a particularly brutal form of torture in which a knife was used to methodically remove parts of the body over long periods.

Translated as “death by a thousand cuts,” the ancient practice provides the metaphorical groundwork for London-based Indian artist.

For the past two years, Setia has collaborated with SHEWISE, a charity that empowers marginalized women to overcome trauma and cultivate lives free from oppression and violence.

Through this connection, she spent two years photographing survivors of abuse in South Asian communities across the U.K. ��A Thousand Cuts is an effort to understand abuse from many different frames of reference,” the artist says in a statement.

[dandylion-s]

listen as a queer indian person, am I disappointed? Sure. The supreme court has taken the coward's way out on this and there's no getting around that. The ruling government of my country, where I've lived my entire life, hates people like me and thinks that I don't belong here. At the bare minimum, that's hurtful and dehumanising.

But queer people in India can, have and will weather this. In ten years maybe marriage equality will be the law of the land, idk I can't see the future. But I can tell for sure that in ten years, I will still be here. Other people who "don't belong" in India will still be here.

This government will not. The people who have said you can't be queer AND indian in front of the supreme court and the country will not.

That is the only certainty. Queers will always be here.

[petekaos]

As they say, you can choose your friends, not your family. Firoz is my friend.

Shahid Kapoor as Sunny and Bhuvan Arora as Firoz in

FARZI (2023), dir. Raj & DK Episode 1: Artist

[dosai-maavu]

talking politics with adults in india be crazy af. i have one uncle who's seriously told me that casteism against brahmins exists bc no tamil filmmaker will make a movie degrading lower caste communities. i have ANOTHER uncle who's yelled at a security guard (who was north indian), for speaking hindi and not tamil in bangalore.

make it make sense.

[milimeters-morales]

Miles: my hands are so shaky i can’t get anything done

Pavitr: maybe i can chase you with a meat tenderizer again? or we can try and suffocate each other with pillows? oh wait, we can just have a fistfight-

Peter B: wtf don’t do any of that

Gwen: wait let him cook

[enigma-the-mysterious]

Can't believe we waited all these months on tenterhooks, only to get some fucking lip service from these so-called "liberal" judges. Fuck you. We are not asking for your fucking sympathy. We are asking for our basic fucking rights.

India is a conservative country and we all know the social prestige attached to a marriage. Not to mention the legal, economic and social benefits. Gay couples have a right to those as much as heterosexual couples do. Marriage is not a fundamental right, my ass

And they know very well that with the conservative government that's sitting in the Parliament right now, we are never getting a marriage equality act passed. The case is closed now.

Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck you!

[sukimas]

there's a fun type of category error i see a lot where the premise is "because this person/institution did a good thing one time, they are definitionally good" no matter what they've done since then. you see the opposite- "because this person/institution did a bad thing one time, they are definitionally bad"- fairly often, and people have developed defenses against it, but i think that people have a difficult time with both still and that's why you get things like "JKR has always been exactly as much of a virulent transphobe and antisemite as she is currently and it's obvious to anyone who reads the books" for a negative example or "the only reason why anyone on earth is free is because of the U.S. military" (courtesy of prager u).

the common sense way to go about analyzing both of these things is "well JKR is funding hate groups right now, but at the time she wrote her books she was not and donating much of her money to actually positive institutions. we don't need to say that she always had the power and did the harm that she currently does in order to mitigate the harm she is causing right now." and "the U.S. military (or at minimum U.S. government bonds and military production donating to the soviets through lend-lease) won wwii, and things would have been quite bad for the residents of the majority of western countries for a while had they not done that, but before and after that event they did a lot of war crimes (and even during that event they did a lot of war crimes, though i'd argue on net the least crimes against humanity of any of the major powers of that war) and they generally aren't a force for peace right now, so their past helpful deeds are not something we need to address at the moment."

but there's a missing mood for both of these things! that's weird! it's like acknowledging that someone can do both good and bad things and that we need to address the things, not the person, is a common sense concept we all accept in psychology class, but once we go out into the world we all forget it. i also don't think that this is an internet culture thing- it's common among irl social groups too- so i have to wonder if it's just a quirk of human psychology that we can't grapple with

[not-your-asian-fantasy]

From The Juggernaut: 🏳️‍🌈On November 29, #Nepal became the first #SouthAsian country to register a same-sex marriage.

“Finally, we are completely together. Finally, we are completely each other’s,” Maya Gurung, 37, told The Guardian.

“We did it. We can have a beautiful future now,” Surendra Pandey, 27, told The Guardian.

In 2007, Nepal’s courts directed the government to amend laws to allow same-sex marriages, but legislators failed to bring any such amendments to Parliament. In June, Nepal’s Supreme Court issued an interim order that recognized the registry of same-sex marriages since legislators had failed to amend marriage laws.

Gurung and Pandey were married in a Hindu wedding in 2017. Gurung was born a man and identifies as a trans woman; Pandey was born a man and identifies as a man. But Nepal prohibits citizens from changing the sex assigned at birth on official documents, so the couple couldn’t open a joint bank account, buy property together, or adopt a child together.

After the Supreme Court’s interim order, the couple tried to register at the Kathmandu District Court and High Court. But they still faced pushback — until Gurung's hometown, Dordi municipality, a few miles west of #Kathmandu, stepped in and agreed to register the couple.

Nepal is the second country in Asia, after Taiwan, to recognize same-sex marriage. India’s Supreme Court refused to legalize same-sex marriage earlier this year.

“We will continue our campaign for same-sex marriage and fight to bring equality to sexual minorities in the country, so that generations of people will not have to suffer like we all did,” Gurung told reporters Friday, AP reported.

Sunil Babu Pant, a former legislator and LGBTQ+ rights activist, told AP: “It is just not same-sex marriage, but it is very inclusive…man can marry man, woman can marry woman. As we have three genders — male, female and others — others can marry others also and others can marry man [or woman].”

Read more about how India is still fighting for LGBTQ rights at the link in bio, then click this image 🔗

[wildsaltair]

Random fact that I love about Gladiator: It is one of the first films settled in that period I remember that has scenes in the cold.

It's such specific fact, but you rarely see winter in swords and sandals films. Looking at that picture you reblogged of Maximus with the fur and I realized most films settled in ancient greece or rome are like touristical promo showcasing beaches, for some reason characters are always in spring or summer. I have rarely seen greek or roman period costumes for the cold weather on movies.

Of course, this has to be with the fact that the movie starts at the end of Maximus' campaing in the north, but is a very refreshing visual.

Oh that’s such an interesting observation! You’re right — other than Viking / Celtic epic movies, we don’t really see winter scenes in period epics. It really makes the rawness of the opening battle more interesting and striking! Also ignites my brain on ways to stay warm with my favorite general 👀