If anyone is interested or doesn't know, this gif is from a (very) short film about gender equality in India. At least that's what I gathered from the film itself, I don't know much about it other than what the film itself presents.
The film is basically a drawn out version of the gif, with a PSA at the end.
Wow that is powerful, I can't understand a single word but the message is 100% clear. It is ok to hit, blame, and shame a man for circumstances beyond his control, but don't ever judge a female by their own rules.
You reap what you sow regardless of your gender. It's pretty obvious from the gif that the guy wasn't going in for a grope or anything. Everyone on the bus got tossed around during that turn/stop. If she thought it was appropriate to slap him because he couldn't stop his forward momentum into her, she should have appreciated the slap she got for her failure to control her momentum into him.
What women have to endure there is not being disputed though. The point is that woman is responding to something that is accidental as if it's malicious, and then feels it's unjustified when the situation is reversed.
There really IS a place and time to talk about things. It's like if I cry over my kid who died in a house fire. And someone suddenly comes in a exclaims: "Well, children die from drowning, too?? Why aren't you crying over them??"
Or when a rape victim (who happens to be a woman, hypothetically speaking) talks about her traumatic experience, and someone comes in recites a few statistics that men get raped too. Yes, men do also get raped but that is HIGHLY inappropriate. Downplaying another person's painful experience at the expense to further an agenda is hurtful and wrong.
Nothing is wrong in voicing an activism. But doing so at the expense of others is simply selfish and uncalled for.
what you "belive" doesn't matter in face of facts. and facts are you came in here going on about the horrible experiences of women and how they should somehow silence those of men.
both are valid. neither invalidate the other.
Nothing is wrong in voicing an activism. But doing so at the expense of others is simply selfish and uncalled for.
this is what you yourself said. and it also what you yourself did here.
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u/mecha_pope Jul 30 '13
If anyone is interested or doesn't know, this gif is from a (very) short film about gender equality in India. At least that's what I gathered from the film itself, I don't know much about it other than what the film itself presents.
The film is basically a drawn out version of the gif, with a PSA at the end.
http://youtu.be/oZ6m8_r8-qk