female infrority
...of money are needed for wedding dowries. A boy is seen as “continuation” the family line. Men are presumed to be strong, intelligent and the powerful the demanding authority in India. This is due to the poverty, lack of income leaving women to fully depend on their husbands. The “son preference” has screwed up the sex ratios in India. Figures have fallen to as low as fewer than eight girls for every 10 boys. India is being hit the hardest with the marriage crisis mainly because there are an insufficient number of brides. This preference led to widespread abuse of modern pre-natal scans used to determine sex and if the fetus is female this led to abortion. Celebrations are taking place. Everyone is offering their best wishes to congratulate the new mother to be. The contractions begin. The child is about to seen. The sex will be determined. It is certainly a beautiful baby girl with hope in her innocent eyes. The mother notices that her child has a clitoris. There are no hesitations the new born must be killed, drowned in milk abandoned on the street at once, or else forced into water pipes. She must vanish at once! Now does an honest heartfelt mother ever look back and question her morality of the act? Does her conscience wreak havoc upon her thought? Does she have sleepless nights knowing her husband’s family shamed her into murdering her child? Does she ever think of body in the water pipe? “You are worthless. I pity you because you are a woman. A woman has no worth in this world. These foolish performances of yours portray make no difference in my belief of a woman. You are a nuisance to society and a waste of my time,” state the ignorant men of society. This is a psychological prospective in many individuals attitude towards women. Through their cultures and religious beliefs women are blinded to believe that they, as individuals have no voice no influence to change the female understanding. An example of religious persecution of woman in the Jewish religion which is founded upon the teachings of the philosophy Maimonidesm, is the following quotes: A man’s wife is permitted to him. Therefore, whatever a man wishes to do with his wife he may do. He may have intercourse whenever he pleases and he may kiss any organ he wishes. And he may have intercourse in a natural or unnatural manner as long as he does not expand semen to no purpose. And nevertheless, the pious way is not to act lightly in this matter, and to sanctify himself during intercourse, as we have explained in the Law of Knowledge. And he ought not to deviate from the common practice, for this thing [intercourse] is really only for procreation. (Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Issurei Bi’ah 21:9) This is the control a man has over his wife. She is looked at as an object to satisfy the sexual appetite. The beliefs of religions, composed and transmitted the sacred writings and been women’s’ sole interpreter. These spiritual teaching have been created to worship and controlled by men. These religious writings have valued sayings that imply of women being inferior. It appears that confining [women] to the house is the first step, and it is when they repeat their evil deeds in the house, or do not submit to the authority of the husband and desert him… Verbal abuse is another example of making a woman believes that she is inferior verbal abuse causes a woman to believe she inadequate, has no significance in the world and that she is not to be looked upon as an individual. In Sikh culture when a son is born, sweets are given and a huge celebration takes place in the community where as when a baby girl is born everyone decides to close their hearts and look down on her in shame. When a husband demands that he wants a son under any circumstances as his offspring a woman feels she can gain the respect only by carrying a male foetus. When a woman listens to the spouse’s ranting of a male offspring she presumes males being superior. In the religious context of the Koran, during menstrual period Muslim women are forbidden to enter family shrines, sacred places or even tough sacred objects. In the Islamic faith under the “House of Obedience” a woman who has fled the martial home without her husband’s consent, may be returned to him forcibly and unconditionally. If a woman is reading through religious contexts and believes in her spiritual beliefs she will follow the religious writings because of the severe intimidation she will face if she were to go against it. While walking down a street with the different gestures composed to classify women. The public on the street criticize as a woman falls deeper and deeper into her emotional state which is interpreted to state a typical image of a society’s “perfect woman”. Women from yesterday and today are faced against cruel bodily hospitality, are continuously deprived of emotional anguish and are drawn into explicit negative media, leaving society subjected to female inferiority. Women have always been ill treated. Some think women are equal, knowing fo...