Right to beat

Indian Express today carries on it's first page this: 

"Hands down, TN women surpass men in justifying wife-beating".

Nalini Ravichandran/ENS reports: "a study by International Institute for population Sciences reveals that 51% of young men and 56% of young women in Tamil Nadu justify wife-beating".

Well, what can you say?

The four 'circumstances' under which wife-beating is justified are

• suspicion of wife's fidelity to her hubby
• refusal to kowtow to hubby's opinion (!)
• going out without permission
• refusal to have sex with  Mr. hubby....

I am shocked!

In the first instance, he only has to just so much as suspect her fidelity! He may himself have two wives (cinna veedu) and screw around the entire jungle, hopping from woman to woman. Fucking silver back morality or what? In this case poaching seems good. It should be encouraged, methinks!

The article does not say all that but it is pretty common, no? And 56% women subscribe to this lawlessness. This,clearly, is a sleaze.

On count 2 the article says that if the wife has an opinion different from her hubby then he is justified in beating her. Hello? What is this, a domestic third Reich? In this case women should revolt against suppression of the divine fundamental right to think.

Going out without permission! Going out of the house without hubby's permission! I wonder what marriage is supposed to imply. Not ownership certainly? But this third 'circumstance ' amounts to that.

Fourth one is pathetic. Husband comes home to a tired wife, hot and horny from all those ads and stuff and hot film-numbers whirling in his head and he demands his right to rape.

The dictionary definition of the R word is this:

1- "force to have sexual intercourse...against their (victim's) will."

2- "carnal knowledge of a woman without her legal consent"

If the woman says "please, not today", or, "not now", the husband is justified in not only raping her, but also, beating her prior to raping. NOT GUILTY ON BOTH COUNTS...sometimes, animal sexual behavior seems several times better. At least it is not 'whenever he wants to'.

What is particularly annoying is that many of these young adults are what is called 'educated'. Educated in what? Systematic rape?

For most part, tradition is synonymous with backwardness.