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Fame Hungry Women Of India

Dear fame hungry women of India,

Honestly.

Do you have no shame?

Not even an iota of self-respect?

Well if you had, then you would stop going after Sree Sant (the Saint) who has made it clear that he is not interested in you, especially those of you who are non-entities and also do not look like Angelina Jolie.

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The Concept of Equality—Once Again

On October 27 2006, a new law titled The Protection of Women From Domestic Violence came into effect.

The law defines two concepts fairly clearly: [bold font mine]

2(a) “aggrieved person” means any woman who is, or has been, in a domestic relationship with the respondent and who alleges to have been subjected to any act of domestic violence by the respondent.

2 (q) “respondent” means any adult male person who is, or has been, in a domestic relationship with the aggrieved person and against whom the aggrieved person has sought any relief under this Act.

That is, I presume (and I am no legal expert) that the gender of the victim and the perpetrator of domestic violence has been hard-coded into the law. The title of the law also makes it pretty clear—it concernes itself only with the protection of women (a fact that is repeated a few times in the document in different contexts e.g. “Provided that no order under clause (b) shall be passed against any person who is a woman.”)

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