Sunday, September 29, 2013

I really hate reading about women in the developing world in US media: they always write from a premise that US women are free and equal

"“It’s appalling,” said Jayati Ghosh, an economics professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. “It’s a way for a patriarchal society to announce it’s not going to protect women. It’s simply going to segregate women and restrict their freedom, instead of securing it.”"  Oh, please. Stop your outrage.  When I first came to the US in 1983, there was not a segregated area for women in the Gym, and now they are commonplace. Should we scream that this is gender segregation and patriarchal? And the motives are the same: for women not to be harassed by men while working out.

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