Disturbed. Puzzled. Angry
Girls can get married at 15? Without the State even attempting counselling? Without judging the merits of a case?
More – I can see the way this will turn out. Marry a kid who is 15 years old, and then just pretend she married him out of her choice. This is what the Division Bench had to say -
The marriage was neither void nor illegal on account of the spouse being less than 18 years of age and being over 15 years of age
Neither void nor illegal? So it’s basically a legal marriage? The law won’t intervene. But wait, it actually gets worse (you need to register to access this article).
Before holding their marriages as valid, the bench also quoted from an age-old ruling to say: “You cannot love and be wise,” besides the oft-repeated adages that “Love is blind” and “All is fair in love and war”.
The Slimes of India goes lower than it ever has with the headline to the issue as Girl,15: Marriageable and a star. And you have to read this article to believe that it was actually written, and published!!
The Delhi High Court says 15-year-old girls know what they’re doing. Women’s groups disagree. But going by the track record of these women achievers, the High Court seem to be bang on!
There are too many sides to this story to attempt even a remotely intelligent post. More cogent reactions will follow sometime today. For now, let me FUME!
Moron Speak- Read the Anon comments. :) (Ref: Comments 4 and 5)
>>The Slimes of India goes lower than it >>ever has with the headline to the issue
I feel sad but can prove you wrong with this
Comments enabled..and that too including anon..how come ?
Also noted that email address also made public…some conscious effort to get in touch with people and hear back what they say instead of just one way talk ? To find a support, a voice that resonates along with you ? To listen to what the other side of the coin suggests ?
Anyways…good :)
Anonymous — if I follow your questions here, note: I’m posting a comment, and my email address is not in evidence. But: I (like Neha) have a blog of my own, and thus also a Blogsot “identity.” Perhaps (I don’t know) lacking those, they rely on an email address as a point of contact; having those, that’s no longer requisite. Why not then open your own (free & easily established) blog, if your complaint is inability to reply-with-non-anonymity (without-however-wishing-to-reveal-email-address)(?)
When I wanted to point a comment to a Blogspot blog, it seemed to me I was required to open my own blog. (Perhaps this was a misreading.) Anyway, I did so, & happily enough.
cheers, d.i.
There are innumerable instances (going in thousands) where a minor girl (less than 18) eloped with her boyfriend and the parents of the girl file a case against that boy for abduction and rape. Even if the girl has left home with him on her own accord, the law will have to punish the boy for abduction and rape. Thousands of young men are in jail for falling in love with a girl.
If such false case against the boy is stopped and the minor girl is given liberty to speak her feelings, then such amendments would not have come into force. But, women want men to suffer as per the new face of feminism. Most women’s organisation pass prejudicial comments on such amendments without scrutinizing the actual scenario. They have become apprehensive about the status – the power to control men – they have attained after aggresive lobbying.
Therefore, this amendment is a wake-up call for women’s organisation that they must be more realistic in their demands or else they will fall into their own dug grave which was meant for men.
I was just wondering. If….If men began to demand equal rights just like women are doing now these days…..It would be a nightmare for women. lols
Women have just entered the arena of men, of the real world and they are already preparing long list of demands which are not even related to basic human rights. A man living in a slum will never go to human rights commission asking them to recognise his basic rights for living in a posh apartment. That is exactly what women are doing now. I pity these women who are suffering from such pathetic paranoia. lols
Neha vish, You seemed to be gas-filled with moronic attitude and clumsy arrogance. Anyways, women like you don’t even deserve reality.
So, stay in your fool’s paradice.
Neha, I have been following your blog since last year. Your blog gives me the much need fillip many a time.
I request you to delete comments of DERANGED people like the Anon above.
You Rock!
-Jap
Jap:
Thanks. :) As for the comments. Even moron-ness must have some evidence for posterity and keepsake.. So I’ll let them be. If nothing, they make me laugh!
You are justified in your anger.
Ditto what JAP said.
:-)