The above poster is more than enough to explain everything that is wrong with feminism. The problem can be described in one word-entitlement. The entitlement of the entitled middle class princesses.
But for the rest of the article, lets forget about entitlement and analyse some of the problems in India and see whether feminism can be an antidote for any of them.
The often cited reasons for the existence of this movement are gender gap or poor sex ratio, poor child education rates, practice of dowry, etc. However, if one takes a closer look at these issues, one would find that all of these issues are result of poverty and not really misogyny as claimed by the feminists.
Poor sex ratio or female foeticide
The article argues that the root cause of female foeticide lies partly in poverty, weak social security and the expectation that sons will support parents in old age.
It claims that population-control campaigns encouraged families to have fewer children, which intensified sex selection when parents still felt they needed at least one son.
The article points to Tamil Nadu as a place where attitudes have shifted because daughters increasingly support their parents and some parents live with daughters and sons-in-law.
It concludes that solving skewed sex ratios requires either removing stigma against larger families or making daughters equally responsible for elderly parents.
Dowry
Dowry is described as one of the traditional ways of sharing paternal property with daughters. The article argues that abolishing dowry without changing inheritance and marriage-market realities may not improve the position of the girl child.
Read Part 2 here.
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https://mic.com/articles/93147/14-powerful-photos-that-show-why-india-needs-feminism-now-more-than-ever