Watch This Indian Actress Shut Down A Reporter For Telling Her To Keep Quiet About Women’s Rights
Actress Mallika Sherawat was giving a press conference when a local female journalist called her out on once saying that India was “regressive and depressing.”
http://www.buzzfeed.com/miriamelder/watch-this-indian-actress-shut-down-a-female-journalist-for
Gee, does this type of exchange sound familiar or what? Written or spoken, the attempts to shut down women's voices all sound the same, everywhere you go. ( and it matters not at all that the interviewer is a woman)
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Not only is there a problem with oppression based on gender, culture, race, nationality, religion... but also there is a resistance/denial which is based on viewing criticism as a dislike for or an attack on some nation, region, religion or opposing faction.
Here in the US many still see a criticism of the government as anti-American. Part of the problem with bringing up issues of women's rights or inequality or, for that matter, prejudices and injustices of all kinds has to do with some other groups (men, for example, in the case of women's issues) becoming defensive. Sometimes those defensive instincts get in the way of actually listening.
Thanks for the video. 
I hesitate to use developing nations or Islamic nations for examples of sexism-- it implies American superiority, which ties into all those things you mentioned. In this case I thought it appropriate because she is such a strong voice.
You're welcome
Many people will repeat the claim "The USA is the greatest country in the world" without thinking about the fact that we are no longer (and in many ways never were) the self-sufficient and mostly isolated nation some folks have thought. The inability to incorporate, accept or even consider criticism is a fatal flaw for any government, religion, group or leader. Perfection does not exist and failing to accept the highlighting of a short-coming will result in continued and likely worsening issues. How can one possibly learn from one's mistakes if one doesn't accept that mistakes were made?
The two most important aspects of the US Constitution are it's conciseness in articulation and its provision for amendment. If only various groups could recognize that change, ideological course corrections and periodic updates are the ways to progress and the means to the best things in life such as freedom, respect and even just avoiding extinction.
Reformers and critics are often branded as heretics. There is no voice louder than the truth.
Veritas (Latin for truth) appears on the Harvard Law School Shield.
My apologies to the OP for semi-hijacking the thread. Ms. Sherawat displays indignation along with an appropriate explanation of her remarks and reasons.
Behind these front page issues of rape, honor killings and infanticide are very human reactions to having these shortcomings brought into public scrutiny. These reactions, defensiveness, excuses, denial... sometimes lead to serious problems. How long did it take to overcome "separate but equal" thinking? For example separate but equal was US case law from 1892 to 1954, 62 years. I don't think 62 years of honor killings is tolerable.
I think the first of the 12 is admitting the problem. Lots of groups need a 12 step program. Bravo to this actress for refusing to complement the emperor's new clothes.
