Posted by: Rythm January 15, 2008
Are we Sexist??
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I would not go as far as saying that all Nepali men disrespect women, but lets face it.. they dont respect women completely! Of course Nepali people are sexist and the sad part is that even women promote the sexism by accepting the discrimination and at times implementing it in their lives. It is sad to see how women are still supressed. You always hear things like "keti bahyera pani yasto garne?"  Go back home and compare male vs. female education and I am sure you will see a big gap. A lot of women are expected to get married in a certain age and just fulfill their marital responsibilities and not be interested in their own career. Is it not double standards to expect women to give up their dreams whereas expecting men to fulfill theirs? I do believe that this is changing with time, but the change is gradual and minimal. Be it dating, household chores, career, education, sexual expectation, alcohol consumption, behavior.. etc.. just name it, the society has a double standards.

One would think, the Nepali people in the US have changed their views, but sadly that is not the case. Our society is completely sexist, and I dont see it changing in the near future.

P.S: I took a class where my prof. once told us: Sex is something we are born with, we are either male or female.. gender on the other hand is socially constructed. The society creates the norms and expectation for the different sex and makes everything gendered. Nepal, I believe has a huge seggregation of gender. I could not agree with my prof. more!

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