*slow clap*

This logic astounds me. Why should advocating for social justice and equality on one hand, and demanding deconstructions of the racial, religious, class-based hierarchies that frame narratives like the author’s, be mutually exclusive?

I’m honestly quite disgusted with Jezebel for posting this without a critique of it of any sort. Seriously, how many more times do we need to cry out for our feminism(s) to be intersectional?!!

Wow, it’s a good thing I haven’t come across the others. Cows, spiritual enlightenment and rape - that’s pretty much what India is all about eh? *rolls eyes*

Honey, please don’t presume anything about me just because we share nationalities. That kind of contradicts your point.

Yes, I fully agree. For example, traveling to a country for the first time, exoticising the hell out of it, and making general assumptions on the basis of a fling gone wrong - all objectively bad irrespective of which culture you are from.

Oh please...don’t presume things about me just because I said I was from a city. I am a Phd researcher in international development who is researching the lives of sex workers in India, including women who have been trafficked into the trade. So trust me I know a thing or two about gender based violence, confronting…

*Also, I find the fact that she keeps lamenting the change Ifraj underwent after she yelled at him..puzzling.

But that’s my point - you can’t just read this story of a girl who comes into her own, and completely ignore the context, her nationality, and the nationality of the guy she had an affair with. In the world we live in and where we keep demanding for feminism to be inter-sectional, context is EVERYTHING. People who…

Uff, this is such a terribly condescending article. As an Indian urban woman from a city, I find her tone patronising to say the least. I have no desire to defend the deep patriarchal mindset that most Indian men, and several women, in my country swear by - but c’mon, this is ridiculous. She goes to a semi-urban part…