Genies, gender and Pots of Gold

A genie sprouted on the other blog a day or two ago, and whaddaya know - today there’s a news report that says it’s scientifically proven that genies can give you pots of gold!
Let’s start with the genie. I did a little link-following, and found that the Gender Genie is based on this.
we find significant [...]

Answers?

I’ve been rather lax with this post: I practically promised Thinking Girl I’d answer her questions in a separate post, and that was two weeks ago! Never mind, better late than never. I hope.
So, here are the questions:
how much does the caste system play a part in a lack of Indian feminist scholarship? what do [...]

Shut up, Mr. Police Officer

Gautam (formerly known as Blr Bytes) points me to the mind-numbingly-misogynistic Police Statement of The Day:
For a typical rape case the judgment is fine but in cases like this the accused should be given a chance to repent provided the victim also wants to give him the chance,” says T S Chakraborty, Additional IG, Prisons, [...]

“influenced by some western culture”

Today’s paper carried, on the front page, news of a student killed in a campus shooting, right here in my very own city. Investigation details were in the local news on an inside page. And guess what the Assistant Commissioner of Police has to say?
 We’re yet to ascertain who is at fault but it seems [...]

Epiphany number 24136

When BikerGirl once said to me that I should start seeing epilepsy as a good part of my life, not just a bad thing that happened to me, I told her I’d realised I needed to do that. Of course I had. I’ve thought it often enough. Problem: how?
And today, I find this:
But do we [...]

“Why do you turn everything into a feminist issue?”

“Have you seen that ad? How sexist can you get?”
“Which one?”
“The Kamasutra personal care range one. ‘I let my daughter wear Kamasutra’.”
“I think parents should have some say in what their children wear…”
“That aside, why does it have to be daughter? Why not son?”
“That’s extreme - you see sexism everywhere!”
Um. Sexism is everywhere. And as [...]

Here and now*

Well, I thought about what my first FF post should be about, and I really couldn’t decide, so I’d use a question from my classes: why do we read so much western literature when we study feminism; aren’t there any Indian feminists?
Of course there are: many of them. But feminism in India has been a [...]