While putting on makeup and doing my hair, I had on one of those true crime TV shows playing in the background.
The show went on and on about how totally submissive “Indian women” are because that’s how “their culture” is.
I don’t know if people are aware of how big India is, how enormous its population is, what a huge variety of cultures exist in the country, etc. I mean, what is it that makes them feel comfortable with talking about “Indian women” and “Indian culture” like it’s some monolithic concept that can be so easily defined?
I don’t know that many Indian women but for the ones I know, the word “submissive” would be pretty much the last among the enormous number of adjectives I know. Of course, I’m sure that among the millions of Indian women, there are those who are submissive. But from there to the conclusion that all women there are like this, the distance is like from here to another galaxy.
And what chance do we, the Russian – speaking women have, if a much more numerous group is stereotyped so dismissively?
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