Degrading the position of Women. - Page 8

I dont understand why some sexist principles of the past cant be changed!

this can be changed thru education only.. existing system in India needed to be changed.. teaching equality is totally different from what i am talking about here.. this so called belief needed to be changed, this can be changed due to progression thru the books, not talks ... let children do assignments, let them go out do research and submit thesis like what they do in west.. this will make sure that they learn ..

look at the serial balika vadu and listen to what Avika Gor talks about child marriage.. that is experience which come out from her child mind.. that is the difference..

children needed to go thru experiences that is what education means .. not what mugging out the lessons and write byhearted exams .. that is not teaching them anything.. then ranking system, who can mug more and memory can retain more information, is written in your exam paper is not what is required..

they needed to go beyond all this..

Edited by anu-s - 14 years ago

Hi, very nice discussion going on. Looks like I had missed this post. Last night ritu and I had a wonderful discussion on Indian women....are they really responsible for their sorry state or they are just victims of circumstances.  I feel there is difference between the serious 'Suppression' of woman & so called feminist's liberation! Let me find that post now.....

Media and its wide reach.......TV is a very powerful medium today!  Annu , I agree with you that directors & producers shd act responsible and get some social message across without  being preachy (Dadi's pravachan). Mostly gen X is allergic to sermonizing!  But Aksh shd cont her studies, nandini shd do some vocational  training music , painting or shd complete her degree.

Tired of watching some bizzare sequences.  The torture  of mind continues episode after episode as we all wait with abated breath what is going to happen next? 

Edited by anu-s - 14 years ago

they do cry and worry but they find the solutions to their problems also....and then don't we know , real life is not half as melodramatic as it's shown on TV.....we encounter all these problems in real life but not together....but in a serial they have to do it, if we start writing a story of daily soap, we'll do the same....

i agree with Tina and others..TV is a powerful medium hence they must attach a social message & should show "progressive" thinking rather than glorifying old traditions like pallu and all..okay it might work for some, but we can do without it..the point is that the older gen. is that way, we can't change their thinking, but the younger gen. must have the freedom to "choose & take a decision for themselves" rather than forcibly adopting them for their family's sake...we can balance both the things right? respecting the wishes of our elders and sometimes do as we please...

Well to each his /her own.....there are many serials which show the women being strong and have many people watching them...what my point is that there are people like this also in real life which they are showing and by showing their condition/submissive nature they are in a way  highlighting this aspect which many women need to be aware of....Didn't many of us learn that silence is not golden always...communicate properly with your spouse....Take balika badhu  by showing child-marriage ..are they popularising child marriage?  NO..it is away to make the audience aware in rural parts of india the ill-effects of it...Because TV is a medium to showcase such sides of the life too , to people who go through all this in real life.......
And showing women strong doesn't mean the kind of women we saw in Ekta kapoor serails where they do all by themselves cook,cry,spy,kill and what not...🤢

I still feel YRKKH is one of the better soaps on TV...i don't know if anyone of u watched soaps like SAANS and Astitva...these were 2 serials with very strong female characters...there is a variety of serials on the tV..it all depends on us what we want to watch and what e learn from it
And after all it is just show...😉 don't watch it if you don't approve...watch the discovery channel instead...😆


Edited by sks7 - 14 years ago

well said Charu....👏  

Absolutely, Anu, they get inspired and some, in turn, internalize everything that the show is depicting...thats why TV is such a phenomenal medium to show something positive...And this is exactly why I hope YR showcases this unique situation, where a young married woman, Akshara, matures into an educated, responsible, free thinking and loving member of her new family and society WITH the support of her husband and family...I also hope they do something similar for Varsha's character....