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Originally Posted by CaramonLS
Your entire argument is akin to cheating on your wife, but it's not a big deal because your neighbor is cheating on his wife with two different women.
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Oh god no. I'm by no means detracting from the validity of questioning South Asian culture's view of women-- I made that clear. My concern is with the frequent deployment of that point of view, which seems to me very clearly a way of avoiding the discomfort of confronting the reality of one's own culture, especially when there is absolutely no real substantial evidence [that I know of] of there being significantly worse rates of physical or mental domestic abuse among immigrant families than among non-immigrant families. And certainly there is no evidence that there are more killings out of a form of jealousy or pride[a serious form of violence against women AND indicative of cultural misogyny] among immigrant communities than there are among non-immigrant communities.