#feminisminindia

[desibishishere]

Idiot ppl: what is this new trend of feminism in Desi culture?!?!!! Women r supposed to be at home!!!

Me, a woke Desi: actually there were a lot of queens, merchants and warriors in Desi history, like-

Idiot ppl: OMG ur one of feminazis, aren't u??

Me: It's feminists and as I was saying, there are a lot of badasses in history like,

Jhansi ki Rani aka Rani Lakshmi Bai led a rebellion against the British raj

Umayamma Rani, queen of Kerala, made the first open revolt against British, established a women's medical College in Kerala, worked against caste system

The story Kannagi, lady from the Chola n Pandiya kingdom times.

Rani Velu Nachiyar, known by Tamils as Veeramangai("brave woman"), first Indian queen to wage war against British.

Nur Jahan's administrative skills proved greatly valuble during her period of reign as she defended the Empire's borders in her husband's absence and navigated family feuds, rebel uprisings. She attended the court whether Janahgir was there or not.

Bharatiyar a 19th century feminist poet.

AND THERE ARE SO MANY MORE

So what did we learn here u mysoginistic piece of gobar

FEMINISM EXSISTED BEFORE UR FORE-FATHERS WERE BORN U UNEDUCATED OFFSPRING OF A DEMON!!

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[dreams4kahaani]

There are so many things which play a part in reinforcing patriarchy as an expected norm and unquestioned adherence to them is so much more harmful.

[feministbollywood]

"Gender-Based Violence in Media: A Media Ethics Toolkit"

“Gender-Based Violence in Media: A Media Ethics Toolkit”

This toolkit has been designed. . .to provide a handy guide when it comes to reporting gender-based violence. . . . [M]any media practices tend to perpetuate patriarchal mindsets and rape culture.

“Gender-Based Violence in Media: A Media Ethics Toolkit.” Asmita Ghosh and Japleen Pasricha. Feminism in India. [pdf] https://feminisminindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/GBVInMedia_Report_FII.pdf

[weesure]

Last Period of the year girls! 😅

[riyaandlife]

And then shake with fear every time I hear twig snaps or footsteps. Inspired from @regajha ‘s writing. Go read all her pieces, if you haven’t already. ❤️ . . . . #womensafety #theroadlesstraveled #robertfrostquote #theroadnottaken #feministmemes #feministart #feminist #feminists #smashthepatriarchy #stalking #womenabuse #feministmovement #feministartists #feminisminindia #womenagainstabuse #genderequality #feministactivism #comicpanel #comicpanels #webcomics #webcomicseries #indianfeminism https://www.instagram.com/p/CMEPXTpl9Pz/?igshid=r5gyv14ameni

[aparajitainvictus]

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[kavitakane]

’#FeminisminIndia ‘ - an online interactive talk between Harsh Pandey(Host) & Ms. Kavita Kané, the recording of the session will be uploaded to #YouTube channel #FreakFolks. D A T E : S E P T E M B E R 2 3 D A Y : W E D N E S D A Y T I M E : 5 : 0 0 P M I S T P L A T F O R M : Z O O M #womenwriters #literaryfiction #feministwriting #kavitakane #indianfiction #indianauthor #motivationaltalks #indianmythology #feministwriters #feminisminindia #intersectionalfeminism #feminism #feminismisforeverybody #literaturereview https://www.instagram.com/p/CFcw6moJ9R6/?igshid=87p933brv20j

[somethingwecanchange]

‘Fatphobia’ is a real thing!! There are women out there thinking if they put on some weight, people will start judging, boyfriends will start making fun, husbands will loss interest, mothers will start asking you to do this and that!! BUT, let me tell you one thing. Lose weight because you want to, for your fitness!! “Not for some people who actually looks at you because of your looks” and this actually goes for boys too!! Losing weight should be a process for being healthy!! Not for looking sexy! That to for others! @bebadass.in #fatphobia #positivevibes #mentalhealth #mentalwellness #mentalstress #losingweight #bodypositive #beingpositive #feminisminindia #mentalhealthmatters #feminineenergy #somethingwecanchange #bebadass https://www.instagram.com/p/CED82gijSq5/?igshid=133w9yqz7wfo8

[crookedmywordsproseduck-blog]

Following the dude harassing me Online, this has become a trend. They think that they can get away with anything like this very easily because even the authorities take Crime Against Women as a Casual thing. The post in which that dude commented was also not Blasphemous in any way (as he claims), it was about Homophobia and I have in no way manipulated the screenshot; it is exactly what he has texted me. These people don't need an excuse to bully someone (especially Women) online. *This is not the first time I got harrassed Online, but this is the first time I developed the courage within myself to call him out*. #onlinebullying #womenagainstsexualharassment #onlineharrassment #cyberbullying #cybercrime #Cyberabuse #rapethreatsonline #feminisminindia #feminist https://www.instagram.com/p/CAmP_t2HrH2/?igshid=rodca0j9mzcs

[anugrahpandey]

Khel khatam paisa hazam khud ko sudharne ka time kiske paas hai baba✌🏻 . . . . . #feminisminindia #priyankareddy #encounter #rapeculture #indianmemes #indianjokes #desijokes #unfunnybusiness #anugrahpandey (at Mumbai, Maharashtra) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5uwePQpYkZ/?igshid=1c4k0bhmskpp

[desibishishere]

Idiots 🙄 learn ur history

[uvicrass]

Spurned by German bureaucracy, I returned to my original idea: to find a sucker to teach me stuff and hopefully not have to break the bank doing it. Samrat generously took me under his wing, housed me, and gave me the opportunity to create a space around me for me alone, because after all music is in the spaces between the notes yadda yadda, I’ll save you the corniness. I’ve spent this past month learning basics of synthesis, some music theory, some stuff equally important but less easily categorised from someone that knows what they are doing, although the implication by no means being that I know what I am doing. At least, if I can get me to put in the grunt work — and holy schnikes grunt work is required — I can perhaps get closer to making music I want to. We’ll see. At any rate, if you have made it this far through my incessant chatting and are involved in making or facilitating the making of electronic music in any way, I have two pieces of overdue news to share: 1) I am Editorialising and writing over at FEMWAV.com, fka fembot5, a community set up to support trans women, cis women, and non-binary musicians in India and elsewhere. If you have something to say or share in this context, I would love to hear from you. 2) I have been quietly recommending and reviewing electronic music and performances that interest me over at Lanky Strum (@lankystrum). If you have music you’d like to share or recommend via it, lmk. This is already more long-winded than I intended for to be, but if you have any questions, DM me my dudes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #femwav #lankystrum #feminisminindia #womeninart #womeninmusic #womxnartists #nonbinary #nonbinaryartists #electronicmusic #womenofmusic #cullera #nofilter #travelspain #lospueblosmasbonitosdeespaña #audiopervert (at Cullera) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzA55ehifh1/?igshid=cr0k6vuuewvi

[rohitjain217]

#repost @rohitjain217 ・・・ Part of Photo Story ‘Kishori Digital - Bane Saksham’ for Mahila Jan Adhikar Samiti : Pooja Gurjar, 20, manages her kitchen while having a light moment with her younger brother at her home, in Ajmer's economically disadvantage locality. She had to quit her study after class 9th. She wishes to travel to Mount Abu and ride scooty besides do a work of sewing and stitching for livelihood and help her parents. For a girl of her locality, otherwise restricted and controlled surrounding, she recently joined a program 'Feminist Approach to Technology' (FAT) executed by @mahilajanadhikar (MJAS) in Ajmer where she is learning computer which is a stark offbeat opportunity for herself and her career. Along with computer MJAS's team is providing girls like her a gender training, empowerment, extra curricular activities and exposure to many more opportunities and learning. #activismthroughphotography #fatindia #education #unicef #unwomen #reportagespotlight #natgeoindia #magnumphotos #thephotosociety #indiapictures #reuters #nytimes #indiaphotoproject #documentaryphotography #everydayeverywhere #lensculture #india_undiscovered #feminisminindia #creativeimagemagazine #nikonasia #nikonindiaofficial #everydayindia #instagram #thepeoplewemet #photooftheday (at India) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByfL7ksnAW8/?igshid=1k5mgmqtvpjq

[godbolet]

Posted @withrepost • @feminisminindia When you try to take the due process route and aren't even given a lawyer to represent yourself 🙃🙃🙃. . . Credit - @missfitcomics. . . . . . . . #SupremeInjustice #SupremeCourt #CJIRanjanGogoi #feminisminindia #feminist #feminism #women #win #indianfeminism #intersectionalfeminism #gender #equality #genderequality #intersectionalfeminist #indianfeminist #womensmovement #Resist #Herstory #womensrights #diversity #humanrights #SDGs #SDG5 #CJI https://www.instagram.com/p/BxKl38sp7Ek/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1wyc0fmwqiaj0

[sometimes-men-need-help-too]

What does modern feminism do that you don't agree with? This is genuine btw

A couple things before I start: 

- This is not meant to bash all the feminists out there unless they fit into what I’m saying. I know there are good feminists out there 

- When I say ‘you’ I’m not meaning you, I’m saying it in a general way 

-I hope I get my point across and it’s clear. I sometimes struggle with that 

Also I’m sorry this is so long and it’s in no particular order and I hope none of this comes across as being aggressive or anything

~~ 

A lot of my issues with the movement boils down to attitudes. To me, that is very telling of its true colors. And I do try not to necessarily judge an entire movement from just the bad people because I know that isn’t fair, although I do feel like the bad feminists have taken over the movement and end up drowning out the good voices and that’s why we hear more negativity than positivity. 

One thing that I have issue with the lack of respect towards those that disagree whether it’s with the movement itself or it’s a particular thing. For a movement that preaches about a woman’s choice, I don’t feel that really happens like it should. I don’t know, maybe I’m wrong here but depending on what the topic is I get a general impression like you’re not really supposed to disagree with what’s being side. You do and you might have someone lash out at you (that’s another point I have). Or if you say you’re anti feminist, you have people coming up with these reasons why they think you are; one being internalized misogyny  and you get called a pick-me which I find a bit insulting.  I should be able to have an opinion without someone assuming I’m trying to get a man’s attention or I can’t think for myself or I hate other girls. That isn’t it! Wouldn’t you think that is misogynistic? 

And if it’s not  internalized misogyny, then there are other factors; her being white (which usually then goes on to sound racist)  or it’s because she has money or  internalized racism or whatever they come up with. And it sounds condescending and that just bugs me. Hey, maybe instead of some underlying reason, we just don’t agree. 

or you have people try to stick the label on anyway. 

‘If you believe in equality you’re a feminist’

The label means nothing. I don’t understand why some will focus on this so much. I don’t want to be called a feminist. I don’t need to. In the same way, it’s not necessary for me to refer to myself as an MRA (men’s rights activist). And yeah, I know this says it’s an “MRA blog” that’s what I had when I started. But ultimately, the label isn’t important. I’m all for equality. It’s cool, it’s great. But I see this sort of thing (online that is) being forced on people and the thing is, with that wording it makes it sound like the movement is all inclusive when it’s not. You have to have certain politics and for the most part (unless you’re a religious feminist) you have to be pro choice otherwise you’re not a ‘real’ feminist. 

My next issue is all the aggression. You can just tell sometimes with how people respond online or if you catch a video that someone posted. And not only that, but how quickly people fall into name-calling or just all around acting like a child. And for the most it seems pretty acceptable to some because it keeps happening. It’s not hard to find on this site or otherwise. If you can’t communicate your opinions about something without having a fit or blocking someone (excluding if they just keep harassing you) then you’re not mature enough. That shows me you don’t really care about having a real discussion. And some can say that it happening on here is probably done by teenagers and to an extent they’re probably right. But it happens on other sites and in real life as well and it’s more than just teens. It’s people my age and older and that’s not cool. 

And then we have  how some like to ignore the differences between men and women. Sure, yes, there are many things a woman can do just like a man but we also have to acknowledge our differences.  I don’t see a lot of that with some forms of feminism. STEM, for example, is something I would attribute the differences more to just how men and women tend to be rather than sexism. Could there be certain circumstances where it is sexism? Sure, I suppose you can’t rule it out entirely. Otherwise I would say it’s just what they’re happy doing. I know girls who are doing science stuff or business things but I also know girls who are going to be teachers or psychologists or nurses. It’s not that they're actively being told by everyone that they can’t do it(I suppose unless they live in some other country like that). That’s just what they want to do, you know, their choice. Just like how some men go towards a job like with computers or farming or they’re pre-school teachers or gynecologists.

 I found an interesting fact (source will be posted below) that said women are actually preferred over men two-to-one for faculty positions. The study was done by psychologists from Cornell University with professors from 371 colleges/universities in the US. It also noted that: “recent national census-type studies showing that female Ph.D.s are disproportionately less likely to apply for tenure-track positions, yet when they do they are more likely to be hired, in some science fields approaching the two-to-one ratio revealed by Williams and Ceci.” 

Yet, we need to ask ourselves honestly, how often do facts like these get passed around vs the idea that women are suffering from misogyny and therefore are unable to fully represent in STEM jobs? 

The next thing I want to address is misandry. Now there are a good portion of people who don't think it exists or if it does, it's really not much of an issue because of the "power" and the "privilege" men have within society. And to me, I have a problem with that. If feminism is supposed to be for men as well, I would think they would want to combat misandry as well as misogyny. If someone really doesn't think it exists, I would suggest that the person really take a look at what goes on in real life and online that's directed towards men.

There's the whole "male tears" thing which is on coffee mugs and t-shirts. There's the kill all men/yes all men thing. All of which are supposed to be jokes and if a man says something about it he gets mocked for his "fragile masculinity"

That's just not okay. They're being immature and a bully which they usually try to justify (men have done this and that throughout history to women) but you just can't.

I found this article, this really really atrocious article. It's one of those open letter things and found on this feminist website (feminisminindia) and I almost believed it to be satire with how.... stereotypically Tumblr it was. I did research and looked at the info regarding the site and nope, it's a serious site. I'll post the article below but I'll also summarize it:

Basically this woman is telling the men in her life that she will not stop saying "men are trash or other radical feminist opinions." She's saying it because women and others have suffered so much at the hands of the patriarchy because they're not straight white men. She goes on to say:

So let’s establish: misandry isn’t real. Just like unicorns and heterophobia, misandry is a myth because it isn’t systematic or systemic. Unlike misogyny, cis men don’t face oppression purely based on their gender. While they may encounter instances of racism, homophobia and ableism, they are not dehumanised as a function of their gender identity (read: cis privilege).

That is wrong. Absolutely wrong. Misandry is real. "Cis" people do face oppression purely based on their gender. Anyone can. To deny that lacks understanding.

And the rest is just saying that: It is time to start hating on men-as-a-whole and starting celebrating the men that you are.

And: Because at the end of the day, feminists need men. Whether it’s because you wield structural power or because we genuinely value your existence, we need to band together to destroy ‘men’ because men are trash, but you, if you made it to the end of this, are probably not. Prove me right.

I would imagine this is a common viewpoint. And it's not a good one. If you genuinely think a whole group as a whole is bad you need to reexamine your thoughts. It's not "men" that are bad, it's the sexist people.

To wrap this up (I'm sure you might be tired of reading this lol); like I said, the attitudes play a huge part of it. Modern feminism, in my opinion, is just not good enough for me to say I agree with it and want to identify as one. I just can't

Here is the link to the feminist article: https://www.google.com/amp/s/feminisminindia.com/2020/09/23/men-are-trash-and-other-radical-feminist-opinions/%3famp

And here is the link for the STEM thing: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/04/women-preferred-21-over-men-stem-faculty-positions