I must say at the outset that  I found  the commentary on this thread as amusing as  the video.

I have mixed feelings about the video.

On the upside:

- It is refreshing to hear people talk freely about issues related to sexual freedom and equality.

- It serves to remind us that there are people in our society who feel they are not being given their due space and find the whole system stacked against them if they dare deviate from the social norms.

- When people feel marginalized, bad stuff can happen, as our recent history bears witness to, and the voices of the marginalized need to be heard by the rest of society.

On the downside:

- If the purpose of this video is to depict sexual oppression then it does a decent job of doing that. However,  did anybody else notice that the video seemed to imply sexual oppression in Nepal was rampant but no data was provided to back it up?  Doing so would have lend much more credibility to that argument if indeed that is what they were getting at with this.

- I don't know about the rest of you but I thought the video had a  "these-New-Guinean-tribes" undertone to it.  Perhaps someone can shed more light on who the creators and promoters listed at the end are so that any doubts people have  might be cleared. Going by  which stories they chose to tell, the failure to provide a  countervailing view about the progress, although limited, that has been made in Nepal with respect to womens and gay rights, I felt the video displayed a limited and dare I say shallow understanding of Nepali society. At times it felt like watching one of those missionary recruitment videos that calls upon the faithful to bring salvation to hapless barbarians and rid them of the savage traditions in their inferior culture.

Net, net:

A rather provocative video that tells five interesting stories of the marginalized but in selectively picking these stories depicts only a small part of  the social narrative in Nepal.