If the world is run by men/for men...?

Question

... why do so many countries have extremely severe laws that are prejudiced against men e.g. in India a man can be jailed for insulting his wife or any female relative http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN2328855120070226...

Can anyone really tell me that its a man's world, and that we need more feminism to secure even more 'equality' for women?

Answer 1

Well, have you read what women can face?

If a woman killed her husband in the past she'd face a much longer sentence than if a man was to murder his wife.

And it is a man's world, you need to open your eyes quit looking just at little things look at the bigger picture. Look at the whole damned world.

Answer 2

None of your links worked for me.  But perhaps these are laws created by men because they reflects a male view on how men should behave in their respective societies.  There is no shortage of men who want to tell other men how they should run their lives.  Many of them become politicians and make laws like the ones you have described.

Answer 3

Why not post anything that does not favor men also? Would that not be the mark of a true equalist.

These are very stupid laws and perfect examples of how rediculous we can go overboard, but to act like there are no ways men get advantages in these same countries is kind of ignorant.

Answer 4

This isn't a man's world or a woman's world. For every female-oriented law you can cherry-pick, I can pick out one oriented for men.

Answer 5

Wow, Bev M, that's hard to believe. I'm Indian and I never see that happen, nor do I see newspaper reports of it or hear anything about it. If the obviously feminist Indian media doesn't report it for years, it doesn't happen.

I can say women in the USA take turns at stabbing a man accussed of adultery with no legal consequences. I'm sure you'd ask me for proof and insult me. But my claim is no less incredible and untrue than yours.

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Why do men never say "It's a man's world"?

The truth is, feminists pull the strings. Men are only chauffeurs (however that is spelt). They have impressive uniforms, they have the keys to a powerful machine and they even choose the route to be taken, but they are helpless in deciding where to go. They have to drive Miss Daisy where she wants to go.

Men have all the power just because most politicians are men, huh? Can you name one pro-male senator, among all the big bad males? You can't. The reason no Congressional candidate is pro-male is because of the furor that would be created over a candidate who says he is. Feminists pull the strings. If you don't do as the feminists say, you can bet your life you won't get respect even from the lowest beggar. No matter how unreasonable the demands of feminists. Would you vote for someone who allegedly 'does not respect women'? You would veto the guy without a second thought.

http://www.ukmm.org.uk/issues/suppressio...

Nobody with an ounce of logic would call this a man's world, when women make all the rules and have all the power. Men have no reproductive rights at all, and the sexism of VAWA, divorce, DV laws etc. are there for all to see.

http://mynation.net/

Women must be really mentally weak and emotionally unstable for laws that group insulting with domestic violence. Are women kindergarten children? Only kindergarten girls go running to their mommies asking the big bad boy who called her ugly to be punished.

Also, was it always a patriarchy? What about the hordes of men putting their lives on the line in dangerous factory jobs to get their families a square meal a day? Women's jobs were (and are) boring at worst. Men always had the life-saving and protecting instinct and well as jobs (like in the army). And we supposedly did nothing better than oppress women all the time. We appreciate the gratitude, feminazis.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

EDIT: About Muslims, is it a religious issue or is it patriarchy by choice in a democracy? It is obviously religious. There would be serious and violent Muslim riots if a secular democracy refused to accomodate the religious beliefs of some religions.

I think feminists are so blinded by rights for women that they seem women are more valuable than anything else. Would you not mind that many, many thousands of innocent people would die in riots if India said, "We hate your patriarchal beliefs?"

If you studied Indian history and know all about 1947 and after, you'd rather not get on the wrong side of Muslims. Not unles you don't mind hundreds of thousands of dead people and your country losing face and reputation and probably getting kicked out of the UN for allegedly practising communalism in a secular country.

It's nice to see foreigners consider themselves better judges than Indians about India, and think it is as simple as writing new laws. You obviously don't know a thing about dimplomacy or the political issues India's got to think about. It would mean severing ties with Pakistan, fighting Pakistan in a brutal war over the occupation of Kashmir again, as India will no longer be seen as respecting Islam, Pakistan's official religion. They'll have serious issues with countries in the middle east too.

But when have feminists minded that men die in hordes in battle so that their families could sleep in peace? To feminists, they were just instruments and voluntary members of the patriarchy. Good riddance. Hillary Clinton saying women are the greatest sufferers of war is an example of this. You dead and maimed guys are so lucky!

Just interchange the roles of men and women in the quote, and let Bill Clinton have said it. He would never have seen the light of day after he said that.

Answer 6

It sounds like it really bothers you that all men don't feel about woman as you do,maybe you should seek therapy over the woman you obviosly were abused by.NOT ALL WOMAN ARE BAD!!!!

Answer 7

The world is not ours and feminism is disgusting.

Answer 8

Doodlebug those CPS guidelines are NOT gender specific!

I think the fact that these laws have even been contemplated just shows how serious a problem gender violence is in Mexico and India. Hospital wards filled with women covered in burns, hundreds of women's bodies turning up bearing signs of torture and mutilation ... we've all heard the stories. These laws are aimed at nipping domestic violence in the bud. Whether they will work or not I don't know. Probably not. But at least people are trying to address the problems instead of doing nothing.

Oh, and I don't know about Mexico but Indian Muslim women do NOT have equal legal rights! Let alone equal societal rights, which no Indian woman has, unless she is very rich maybe.

For your two laws that are prejudiced against men I could probably list hundreds that are prejudiced against women. In Saudi Arabia alone a woman may not work or leave the country without her husband's permission, drive or cycle on public roads or vote. There, I've beaten your tally already :-)

Answer 9

No, its not a man's world anymore. Its a world run by men/women for women. Talking about femminism or the evils of it can get you ostracized from anywhere. Cherry pick the goods (if any) of femminism, and your a hero. The issues you bring out clearly prove it and not otherwise. If it stokes the femminists' prejudice, let it be so for them.

Answer 10

Aw, poor dear, guess he shouldn't have insulted her then.  It's worth mentioning that around 50,000,000 muslim women in India were stripped of their legal rights because India is more concerned with pleasing religious fanatics than ensuring rights for women.  So yeah, I'd say India could do with a very healthy dose of feminism actually, certainly much more than it has now :-)

Answer 11

For every rule you find hat is againt men there are rules that are against women too. Just because we are lucky where we will, doesn't mean we should shut our eyes to atrosities going on in other parts - this goes for racism, ageism etc.

And in those countries, just because a man may have a more severe punishment doesn't mean the women in that country have it easy.

Answer 12

So honour killings - taking place even in the UK and the USA - are beneficial to women? Or forced marriages? Or the examples mentioned above? And then lets look at social stereotypes and inequality....

You often post links that then fail to work btw, so it's sometimes hard to answer your questions. Could you please be more careful next time? Thanks.

Answer 13

no its here to protect cruel treatment of women in these countries

Answer 14

First, I can't open any of your links.

Second,  countries like India, like Mexico are extremely male oriented, have always been. Please, read more about it. IF now, there are some laws implementing taking care of their women,  it is a good step, not a step to victimize men. Come on, in these countries women have been victims for very, very long time!

As another poster wrote, in some parts of rural India, stoning to death a woman, is still viewed as a way of keeping the "honor" of the family.

Some info:

http://www.thp.org/reports/indiawom.htm

http://lap.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstr...

The physical, sexual, psychological and economic violence perpetrated against women on a daily basis throughout the world still constituted the most significant obstacle to gender equality .

Doodle, I know you constantly try to prove how men have it worse, this is not a competition of who suffers more, but it annoys me, that you try to completely change the real scenario, especially in countries where there are REAL cruel treatment of women...more info for you at:

http://womennewsnetwork.net/

Edit to add: look at that last link, and tell me if in so many countries is NOT a man's world?

Just read the news....

Edit two: this article about Mexican women perhaps will help also"Unbearably high levels of violence against women continue to exist in Mexico," a UN report quoted by the court said. "Police corruption continues to be a major problem and many police officers are involved in kidnapping and extortion. Many believe that sexism and even violence against women are part of the social fabric."

http://www.thestar.com/Unassigned/articl...

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Answer 15

In India, a man can also call on his male relatives to help stone his wife to death for [perceived] adultery.  Beat that one!

Answer 16

I don't know the answer, but I'm moving to Mexico