Interesting, and unfortunate. I too have known such instances of moralism
masquerading as pro-woman activism. On the Left, a very alert kind of gender
education is needed to correct these kind of tendencies. I've often noticed
that in the name of opposing capitalism, what happens is that feudal values
('family' values etc) are defended - forgetting that the Left after all
should be resisting capitalism from the standpoint of *socialism*, and that
even capitalist 'individualism' in sexual relations etc is an *advance *over
feudal kind of relations.2009/12/22 Venugopalan K M <kmvenuan...@gmail.com> > > > UNNITHAN EPISODE AND THE MORALISTIC MOBOCRACY > > > > A recent story from Kerala as reported by the Malayalam press and > electronic media should perhaps remind us the need to uphold > > > > Constitution of India Against Moralistic Terror > > > Just look at the horror stories in the media which tell us that Rajmohan > Unnithan (a Cong leader)was caught for being in the company of a woman in a > rented house. The local people led by DYFI and PDP activists surrounded > the house and they summoned the police to stop the alleged > 'anaashasyam...'. Police have reportedly booked Unnithan and the owner of > the house for committing/abetting ‘anasaasyam’. > > > > Don’t ask neither the media nor the police what is the section under which > the case is booked here, though we are expected to assume that the crime as > defined in the statute book is about racketeering on women by third > parties with motivation for profit, is invoked. But this is routinely done > by the police and an overenthusiastic moral brigade cutting across > political spectrums from far right to left to ‘feminists’(?), in all cases > of extra marital relationships. > > > > ‘Anaasasyam’literally means undesirable activity, and in the common > parlance, it simply means extra marital sex even with mutual consent! It is > also among the most favourite items that make news for the evening dailies > in every small/big town in Kerala. > > > > Several pro CPM womens’ activists indeed did loudly protest the act of > 'anaashasyam' by a Congress leader... > > > > (According to their logic, women in such cases can neither have the agency > nor claims to rights as subjects. They are invariably seen as just the > victims of ‘sthreepeedanam’, which means ‘harassment of women’ by a > capitalist and sex tourism- oriented racket. > > > > These protesters would have cared a damn for communal profiling of Muslims > and dalits as terrorists. > > -- > > > > You cannot build anything on the foundations of caste. You cannot build up > a nation, you cannot build up a morality. Anything that you will build on > the foundations of caste will crack and will never be a whole. > -AMBEDKAR > > > > http://venukm.blogspot.com > > http://www.shelfari.com/kmvenuannur > > http://kmvenuannur.livejournal.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Green Youth Movement" group. > To post to this group, send an email to greenyo...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<greenyouth%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to greenyo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to greenyouth+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
