No.

You're useless, disgusting and oppressive for portraying Nepali women as mindless, submissive women without a voice or autonomy. You should be ashamed of yourself, what the world needs less of is your voice and more of these women as seen in the videos speaking for themselves. You're trash. Pure trash. Scum of the…

Basically. Someone down thread is hooting and hollering some white nonsense about how "these women don't have a voice!", "they are taught not to speak for themselves!", implying that ALL Nepali women are subdued robots who can only think for themselves when men or westerners tell them what to think. I replied with…

Go away. Not here for your bullshit. Bye.

I'm glad to hear from someone from a culture in the developing world criticize that culture themselves. Thank you for sharing. I'm also from a developing country and we have problems as well, I'm glad whenever a woman from my culture can bring our issues to the forefront, in our own voices.

This. Thank you.

Let's not make this issue all about you. It's about women from the developing world. Examine how invested you are in defending whiteness instead of listen to a critique from an actual Black Third World woman who has seen white woman's burden play out enough times in order to fully appreciate what it looks like and…

A fantastic critique of white feminists' treatment of "Third World" women. Come chat to me when you publish a peer reviewed article or when you've actually examined how gender and race intersect within feminism and within Western culture: http://www.academia.edu/299715/Mission…

Yup, basically this how they operate. Brush the dehumanization and denigration of cultures that are not your own aside to prove your point, fulfill your culture superiority objectives, ignore valid criticisms linking the issue to systems of power and the same socio-historical context that allowed/allows colonialism,…

"They have no power, they have no voices in their societies because of the one article I read that one time on Jezebel that I took and extrapolated to all women of the developing world and decided that not a single of these women can speak for themselves. My culture must be the best and most advanced right? Because…

Oppression porn if there ever was any:

More Nepali women in their own words and their own voices:

They do have voices in their society, you're just not open to listening to them and resort to infantilizing Nepali women insisting that they cannot speak for themselves and they are not actively working to help women from their country. Your whole existence is unbelievably offensive.

Yet here they are speaking for themselves:

That is the point. Not much has changed.

This. Exactly.

I think you should read through the comments again.

I think this issue is not just limited to religion, this is an issue of racialization. People often speak of "other" religions and their practices in very racially coded language. I think there should also be a mandatory anti-racism class, taught by POC, each and every single year of the school curriculum.

This. The representations of developing countries are limited and range from violent to oppressive to backward. I'm fucking tired of it. This is probably the first and last time Jezebel will be discussing Nepal until something even more terrible and "backward" becomes newsworthy for them.

Water is wet.