GirlChat #494682
Re: switch from dowry to brideprice
Posted by Stahntii on 2010-March-16 05:56:44 EDT, Tuesday
In reply to switch from dowry to brideprice posted by Baldur on 2010-March-15 19:58:15 EDT, Monday
While I would prefer no such financial transaction take place at all, I wonder what a few well-publicized instances of Indian men paying a brideprice would do to change perceptions?
- I too feel it would be best if no financial transaction had to take place. And as for publicizing brideprice, I imagine it would make some amount of difference. And it would prolly catch on pretty quickly and a new tradition of it would be getting started.
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Right now, poor families don't want girls because they can't afford that dowry later on - but if poor families saw that girls were valuable - a cash crop if you will - they would have a very different attitude.
- Most surely, Baldur. Most surely.
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On the other hand, won't it be funny in forty years when Indian men have a reputation for being pussy-whipped because they know they have to do whatever it takes to keep their wife, because so many other options are available to her.
- Why would you find it funny? Maybe I'm missing something? But I can't think of a reason why I would see humor in men being pussy-whipped. Fill me in on that, Baldur.
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