juthikaforpresident:

isignedupforthedashboard:

Intentionally Untitled: whenever someone says that arranged marriages never work

elduderina:

section9:

elduderina:

section9:

elduderina:

zainyk:

frombaghdadwithlove:

juthikaforpresident:

I tell them what my mother’s favorite day was. It was her wedding day, and she considers my father her best friend and lover and she never regrets her parents finding her a husband.

My best friend’s parents had an arranged…

Positive anecdotes make institutionalized subversion of women totally okay!

No, they just mean that you can’t paint an entire institution in one color and expect it to be an accurate representation of that institution. 

Which is what the OP did from the other side. We kinda just made the same point.

I’m really confused where you stand on the matter now. 

There are good stories and there are bad stories, and both can be used to shed light on the issue from either side. You’re telling me I shouldn’t shit on arranged marriage because a couple of people’s mothers learned to love their fathers…awesome. I’m more interested in the implications of this cultural tool, which is used to perpetuate a patriarchy within those societies. But the OP apparently doesn’t need saving from my Western ass, so who am I to speak?

I have shit to do today; I’m getting off of tumblr now.

The matter here isn’t about love, it’s about personal freedom and LIBERTY. Arranged marriages are incompatible with these ideals and are thus OBJECTIVELY WRONG. Coercing or forcing someone into a contract or arrangement is the epitome of denying personal freedoms that should be enjoyed by every human.

oh please western feminist tell me more about the concept of liberty I’m sure I don’t understand it being a poor brown woman

Thanks for explaining the concept of personal liberty to us, whitey. Now I understand, like I didn’t before, that every woman and every man who enters into an arranged marriage is coerced and abused and stripped of their rights and dignity by their mean awful evil parents and community. 

Fuck you very much. 

Source: juthikaforpresident

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  1. eggznrice reblogged this from itsthetimetodisco
  2. nisha-ology reblogged this from anedumacation and added:
    @isignedupforthedashboard… you madame, are a FUCKING ASSHOLE
  3. bbanzaiz reblogged this from regazzadilupoinverno
  4. kitschy-kat reblogged this from isignedupforthedashboard and added:
    Bullshit. Don’t try to gloss over racism by giving superficial acknowledgements of how bad it is and then pretending...
  5. isignedupforthedashboard reblogged this from juthikaforpresident and added:
    Be done with me....some cultural practices taking place around the world. And I never said...
  6. juthikaforpresident reblogged this from isignedupforthedashboard and added:
    Why, because i pulled out resources and made a valid point?...That is still...
  7. regazzadilupoinverno reblogged this from anedumacation and added:
    Someone let loose the rabid ferrets on this… person. Please.
  8. juthikaforpresident reblogged this from isignedupforthedashboard and added:
    You have no clue what arranged marriages are in South Asia and started shitting all over the conversation on how it is...
  9. isignedupforthedashboard reblogged this from juthikaforpresident and added:
    where YOU lose. I am not color-blind...race relations. Shit sucks
  10. isignedupforthedashboard reblogged this from kitschy-kat and added:
    I don’t shit on cultures that I see as “uncivilized.” I shit on PRACTICES I see as shitty. In America, that includes the...
  11. juthikaforpresident reblogged this from isignedupforthedashboard and added:
    it’s ironic how you’re complaining about a defense mechanism when you’re the one reblogging all my posts and talking...
  12. kitschy-kat reblogged this from isignedupforthedashboard and added:
    LOL I WAS TALKING ABOUT YOU DOUCHEBAG But you know, admitting you’re a racist arsehole is the first step. Maybe there’s...
  13. trulysophisticat reblogged this from anedumacation and added:
    It’s one thing to “see people as people” and a completely DIFFERENT THING to think “MY WAY IS THE ONLY RIGHT WAY TO DO...
  14. anedumacation reblogged this from isignedupforthedashboard and added:
    oh god she went there she really did with a handy side of
  15. aikobot reblogged this from anedumacation and added:
    This feel oddly like some form of archaic imperialism over the internet. The whole argument gives me this weird “oh your...
  16. isignedupforthedashboard reblogged this from kitschy-kat
  17. isignedupforthedashboard reblogged this from juthikaforpresident and added:
    Again, more mention of skin color. Wonder why that is? Again, I see people as people, not colors. The racism gets...
  18. isignedupforthedashboard reblogged this from juthikaforpresident and added:
    am not preaching from...am talking about a human’s right
  19. kitschy-kat reblogged this from juthikaforpresident and added:
    what a complete and utter racist asshole
  20. anedumacation reblogged this from juthikaforpresident and added:
    Don’t you love it when white people barge into a discussion knowing nothing about the subject, and then start to lecture...
  21. trulysophisticat reblogged this from anedumacation
  22. juthikaforpresident reblogged this from isignedupforthedashboard and added:
    In all my days of debating tumblr, I have never seen an ignorant and absolutely crass response from a person who clearly...
  23. indigocrayon reblogged this from isignedupforthedashboard and added:
    I was going to reply to your other reblog but then I saw this and I want this here so everyone who follows me can see...
  24. itsthetimetodisco reblogged this from juthikaforpresident and added:
    why can’t I have the personal freedom and liberty to choose an arranged marriage? Just because it’s not the choice you...
  25. anedumacation reblogged this from juthikaforpresident and added:
    Thanks for explaining the concept of personal liberty to us, whitey. Now I understand, like I didn’t before, that every...
  26. juthikaforpresident reblogged this from isignedupforthedashboard and added:
    oh please western feminist tell me more about the concept of liberty I’m sure I don’t understand it being a poor brown...
  27. isignedupforthedashboard reblogged this from elduderina and added:
    The mother here also has no desire to live in a civilization based on respect and freedom.
  28. isignedupforthedashboard reblogged this from elduderina and added:
    The matter here isn’t about love, it’s about personal freedom and LIBERTY. Arranged marriages are incompatible with...
  29. sara-laughs reblogged this from poemsofthedead
  30. poemsofthedead reblogged this from juthikaforpresident and added:
    Point is, elduderina, that with the high rates of divorce in Western countries where people marry for love, there are no...

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