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In reply to the discussion: Two Indian sisters 'gang-raped', killed and hanged from a tree [View all]passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)that was a shockingly dismaying documentary. I watched it on youtube without captions so I missed half of it. Maybe that was best, as it was hard enough to watch with only half of it in english.
It puts to shame our worries about gender inequality here, but at the same time, it shows why we are still fighting the battle here. Too many people in the world, including this country, still feel women are inferior.
Even in the history of the US, when children were needed to help out at home, and often didn't even get to go to school, boys were better than girls because they could do the heavy work of farming and ranching.
It will be a long time before this problem is eradicated worldwide, and until it is, it won't completely be eradicated here in the US.
Oh, hell, why am I complaining...I'm just a woman!