Some Chinese women have taken to dancing on streets in underwear in a bid to attract men/husbands. And I thought the sex-ratio in China was skewed towards men, so actually it should be men doing a show on the street to attract women for marriage! Well girls, don’t blame men if you can’t find husbands. http://current.com/1pl3c4c A group of masked women caused controversy in China by dancing in the street in their underwear in a bid to find husbands. The eight young women said they were coming under intense pressure from their families to settle down before "it was too late". They braved the weather to strip down to their bras and pants outside a subway station in Guangzhou, capital of Guangdong province, and danced for passers-by. The girls handed out sheets of paper … [Read more...] about Women empowerment – Chinese way
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God save Indian women — NCW says no swayamvar for them
After Rakhi Sawant’s swayamvar reality show where she chose her husband (or so we thought), a new show has started where Rahul Mahajan will be choosing a wife for himself. Nothing gets Indians so excited than prospect of seeing a marriage party! However NCW does not seem to be too happy about people making their own choices in marriage. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/NCW-trains-guns-on-Rahul-Mahajan-reality-show-/articleshow/5524923.cms NEW DELHI: National Commission for Women has written to I&B ministry asking it to ensure prevention of indecent portrayal of women in a forthcoming reality show on a bride hunt for Rahul Mahajan. "I have seen the advertisement only. However, we have written to the ministry asking it to ensure that there is no indecent … [Read more...] about God save Indian women — NCW says no swayamvar for them
Indian woman thinks of marriage as pious bonding, but sex before marriage is ok!
A recent Delhi High Court judgment has ruled that having sex with fiancée and then breaking off engagement will be taken as crime of rape. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Sex-with-false-promise-of-marriage-is-rape-HC/articleshow/5525620.cms Justice V K Jain refused to grant bail to the man, Nishant (name changed), who had filed a petition for anticipatory bail in a case where he is accused of raping a girl who was approved by his family and had even got engaged to him. On one hand society is getting permissive in terms of sex, what with 3-4 sex surveys being done every year in weekly magazines, reality shows where women mouth obscenities as much as men do; so it would seem that at least in urban India, women are not the coy stuff they were supposed to be earlier and … [Read more...] about Indian woman thinks of marriage as pious bonding, but sex before marriage is ok!