Thursday, May 14, 2009

"Keep Her Under Control" video

Use the comments section here to comment on the video "Keep Her Under Control". Your comments should be about the specifics of the video, and not about your ethical reactions to the video (those are interesting, but this is not an ethics course).

For example, here is a comment from previous course"
I would just like to say that this video was not about our culture. I do not think that it is fair to other cultures to hold them to our standards. Although I understand where the outrage over this situation stems from, I also am sympathetic towards those people who live this way of life. Who are we to set and enforce our way of life on people across the world?
Again, this course is not a course in ethics, so the questions raised by the commentator, while interesting, are not germane. I do not care very much whether you are outraged or indifferent, I care whether you have watched the video closely enough to understand the nature of the nuanced gender structures in the village. One last thing: the video is of one village in India, so it it most emphatically NOT about something you might want to call "Indian culture". That would be like saying that the all-Goth party you attended over the weekend was "American culture"....

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