Hello Kitty punishes Thai police officers
The Thai police force has developed a new way to keep its officers in line: Make them wear pink Hello Kitty armbands if they screw up. Why? Because Hello Kitty is for girls, and so making grown men wear it is horrendously emasculating and humiliating. It is the pink armband of shame for wayward police [...]
...read moreIndia elects its first female president
Good on them. Sorry to anyone who commented on this earlier; I accidentally deleted it.
...read moreIt’s saturday night and I’m all confessional-y
I recently visited a friend in Hyderabad. A couple of hours after I’d arrived we decided to walk to a nearby restaurant for dinner (this was evening. Eight-ish.) and we were walking along, talking about literature or gender or football or something when a man zoomed past us on his motorbike, going in the same [...]
...read moreOn Hating Rakhi Sawant
I first saw Rakhi Sawant in an awful music video a few years ago, in which she played the bespectacled-but-miniskirted secretary to an improbably attractive boss.I don’t think she was particularly well known back then (I’d certainly never heard of her). Now she’s famous and practically everyone I know hates her.
...read more“Nudity is not a solution”
Via India Uncut, this story about a woman in Gujarat who protested against dowry harrasment by walking along a road in her underwear, carrying bangles (an important part of marriage in many parts of India) and a baseball bat. The protest (especially the baseball bat) made me smile a little, till I read the comments. [...]
...read moreMore presidential elections
India’s presidential elections are a couple of weeks away (on the 18th of this month), and a woman, Pratibha Patel, is contesting. This is, of course far less interesting than the U.S presidential elections and Hilary Clinton, since the Indian president a) isn’t elected by the public and b) has very little power to do [...]
...read moreNeither fair nor lovely
I wrote the entire post – it took me two hours. I was so looking forward to putting it all up. And then wordpress did not save the draft even though it said it had and it is lost forever. It was such a good post. It was such a well written post and it [...]
...read moreFamily Planning Riots in China
Reuters reports that China admits to detaining 28 people in recent riots protesting the country’s draconian one-child policy, enforced with high fines, infanticide and forced abortions. The 28 were “suspected of instigating” the riots that flared in the Guangxi region last week, the Xinhua news agency reported. It did not specify their identities or the [...]
...read moreThis is what Anti-Choice Looks Like
The anti-choice mentality is about more than just restricting abortion — it’s about a broader mentality that does not believe women should have a right to make their own reproductive decisions. It’s about thinking that the state should be permitted to exercise control over whether or not women give birth. And as that mentality continues [...]
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