Correct answer? India. Check out this website for yourself.
http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art46585.asp
Okay, they did just pass a law against, just this past Fall, 20006. But it remains to be seen how well it gets enforced since so far no men have ever been convicted for this.
I feel a need to educate about these horrible human rights violations. Many others occur throughout the world. What can you do to help?
2006-12-15 06:49:43 · 10 answers · asked by Greanwitch 3 in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
I am not deleting but leaving these so far 2 not only sexist but violent responses so people can see how SOME men still think. I wonder what country they are from? US?
2006-12-15 07:19:27 · update #1
sugamM: I am doing something, I am putting this out here to inform and inspire others. I have done a lot in my life to make changes, As a young feminist years ago I founded an organization in my community which effected many changes. You are thinking in a very limited way. One person CAn do a lot. You will make your life happier if you realize that and how powerful each and every one of us is.
2006-12-15 08:40:31 · update #2
I thought they threw the widow on the funeral pyre of her husband. I don't think they just set women on fire for no reason.
2006-12-15 06:56:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Honestly I think its just an excuse to spend a lot, I personily wouldnt spend that much a wedding when you could buy a house with that money and have a small wedding with your family and friends and a party after but it is a huge day alot of cultures take it really seriously and if you have the money why not right? The wedding industry is really expensive too though, everything has its cost so alot of the time they are spending more then they even wanted to spend (the average cost of a wedding right now is $30,000), most times they go into planing the wedding with really big ideas and how they want the wedding but they never really knew what the costs where before...So they have this image in their heads that they have to have and before they know it they are over budget all because their wedding cant be a small affair it has to be memorable to everyone that attended and it has to be different. Lol Im going to be a wedding planner so I had to look at costs of everything and it all adds up quick, but honestly its all worth it because at the end of the day its not going to matter you'l be happy and everything will all work out.
2016-05-22 21:34:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
seen something of this mindset first hand. Guy that ran the convenience store down the road (indian) beat his wife half to death over something - don't think it was even something as serious as a dowry dispute, cheating or anything else - and burned her by pushing her face down onto a grill at the restaurant adjoining the store, which she managed.
When I noticed he hadn't been around for a while, I asked the guy working the counter, where's Slugdish or whatever his name is (forgot), and he told me he was in the slammer and likely would be for years, and went on and on about how unfair it was and if he'd done it back in "our" country he wouldn't have gotten in any trouble at all.
Different world over there. But it's not just women that get screwed over. Sikhs and Pakis and Hindus have been murdering and maiming each other and setting each other on fire by the hundreds of thousands since the partition, with little more justification than seething grugdes and the incomprehensible cultural directives followed by the man mentioned in this question.
Its also a corruption issue, not just in India, but a lot of places - Like Latin America. You can buy your way out of just about anything. And you don't have to hire a lawyer first.
2006-12-15 08:01:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
This happens in India, and ITS NOT LEGAL. What happens is the mother in law sets her daughter in law on fire if she has not brought a high enough dawlry, then the mother in law lies and pretends the daughter in law caught on fire while cooking at the stove. These are investigated most of the time, but then the police are corrupt and will accept bribes from the family to end their investigation.
2006-12-15 08:02:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
This not only happens in india but in many places, you can do nothing to help you can't go to every person in the world and tell them not to do evil things like this, if you want to do something all you can do is make sure your family and friends understand your views and agree to back you up all the way.
2006-12-15 08:34:13 · answer #5 · answered by Blarhbhb 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
the men are not suppose to be convicted because it is not threir fault for this,as it happens when the husband is dead .[SATI]
but if it is done when the husband is alive then the whole family should be covicted.{the husband's side}
2006-12-22 18:02:06 · answer #6 · answered by Aishwarya K 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I always thought the man was suppose to get off on his wedding day?? Sorry. didn't know there was an option. Thought is was standard procedure, if he didn't fall a sleep, for him the get off.
2006-12-17 14:36:00 · answer #7 · answered by smially 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
take away the matches and use fireproof wedding gowns.
2006-12-20 22:16:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
texas?
2006-12-21 19:04:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Damn, I need to get married in India....Burn the biatch!!!
2006-12-15 06:57:25 · answer #10 · answered by EPIC 2 · 0⤊ 5⤋