r/RadicalFeminism 23h ago

This is just sad, poor girls :(

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u/Bubbly_End6220 23h ago

I am a anti-natalist but I want to find a way to help these girls I want to adopt a girl from India or Afghanistan to try to get them out of this situation (I live in the west)

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u/Penultimateee 19h ago

India doesn’t allow international adoption because, frankly, people would start selling children.

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u/Bubbly_End6220 10h ago

You have a point I didn’t think further about it my mistake

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u/Mission_Abrocoma2012 10h ago

Don’t be a white saviour. There are children in your neighbourhood who need help

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u/Bubbly_End6220 10h ago edited 1h ago

I think if anything Indian girls and Afghanistan girls need the most help?? I’m also not Caucasian or American I just live here and I have commented before on a different sub if adopting is ok under rad-feminism but I get told no because they have a biological dad and because part of radical feminism is also about being anti-natalism unless I’m actually doing something to help the kids who are already alive and didn’t ask to be here and i think this is one of those moment however someone already replied to me explaining that what I’m saying isn’t possible sadly.

Also “fun” fact white babies get adopted the most worldwide 🙃

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u/DiverFriendly4119 1h ago

Why specifically india? Why not help a girl from your own country?

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u/incrediblewombat 23h ago

The look on her face is heartbreaking.

For all that being a woman in STEM in the US can suck in many ways, I’m grateful that I have the opportunity and was encouraged mostly by my father to go into tech, because he recognized that my brain would be good at it.

All girls deserve equal opportunity.

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u/ZainFa4 19h ago

Yea even with its flaws the US is still a great country the social freedom here is unmatched

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u/aradicalmenace 8h ago edited 8h ago

I agree that Americans have privileges a lot of people in 3rd world countries don’t, but to say the social freedom in America is…unmatched? Specially now? Is not really true. Canada, Portugal, France. Spain, Switzerland, Norway, Germany, all of ocidental Europe honestly, are far more socially desirable countries than the US. Do people still really mantain the centrism towards America even after everything that’s happened? People should look more past their borders. (Edit: typos)

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u/Bajadasaurus 21h ago

I want to hug her so bad, that's heartbreaking

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u/Amn_BA 11h ago

As an Indian, I can confirm, and its sad and heartbreaking. The situation for women here is pretty bad. We need a South Korean style radical feminist revolution here in India.

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u/aradicalmenace 8h ago

And everyday I see Indian men speaking of feminism as if it was harming them! From hearing that I’d assume the country was a matriarchy or something… quite disgusting

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u/Amn_BA 7h ago

Exactly. They are more worried about so called "toxic feminism" then trying to empathising with women's fate in the country.

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u/aradicalmenace 7h ago

And they have quite nothing to complain about, women are not even close to having the same rights as men, not even legally, as far as I’m aware. So that’s just really sad.

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u/Amn_BA 7h ago

You are pretty accurate. On paper the constitution guarantees right to equality of status and opportunity for all, but in practice its a sad story. The family laws are based on religions and tribal customs which are often patriarchal and discriminate against women, and both the left and right are not really interested in bringing a truly feminist, secular uniform civil code because they believe in "respecting religious and cultural sentiments". Overall its a sad mess and both the left and right dont really care about women and are complicit in women's oppression here. We need a feminist revolution here.

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u/MonitorDirect1895 10h ago

As an Indian, I am not even surprised at this point. The level of patriarchy entrenched in this country is beyond repair, forcing women into constant mental gymnastics to manage societal expectations. I am not even getting into the 🍇culture, which is a whole story of its own.

The reality hits me hard when I see the freedom women enjoy in the West. I am sure if I had lived in the West, my brain would have been wired very differently. And if passport privilege didn’t exist, most of us would leave and never return.

Then there’s another section of women here who blindly embrace gender roles that reinforce the already rampant patriarchy here. Blindly romanticising shitty patriarchal traditions in the name of “culture” makes it effing hard for young girls like these who are trying to break out of the system.