{"id":2133,"date":"2012-09-19T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/?p=1801"},"modified":"2013-01-13T15:13:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T22:13:03","slug":"marketing-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/marketing-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Marketing violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/kairosphotos.photoshelter.com\/gallery-image\/G0000KxElbE9NWzc\/I0000O2pVoeuEQ5w\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000O2pVoeuEQ5w\/s\/900\/611\/in-jeffrey027.jpg\" title=\"Marketing violence\" alt=\"An advertisement in the Indian city of Varanasi promotes violence against women.\" width=\"900\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rants of crazed Republicans in the United States about the legitimacy of rape has reminded me of the struggle of women in India against a blame-the-victim mentality that still plagues both gender relationships and the attitudes of public security officials, as documented in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/living\/from-the-delhi-police-six-reasons-why-women-deserve-to-be-raped-269957.html\" target=\"_blank\">this recent article<\/a>. Here&#146;s a billboard from Varanasi I found a few years back. It would be nice if tacky advertising was as far as it went. But on that trip I wrote about dowry violence, and still vividly remember the blistered flesh of a woman in a Methodist hospital in Mathura who&#146;d had her face burned by her in-laws in an &#147;accident&#148; at home. And what Nobel laureate Amartya Sen dubbed the &#147;missing women&#148;&#151;the more than 100 million women in Asia who have been selectively aborted in the womb or killed shortly after birth in order not to &#147;burden&#148; families with a girl child&#151;reminds us that this isn&#146;t just extremist politicians like Aiken and Ryan and their religious backers who push policies that do violence to women. It&#146;s much more insidious. But many in India are fighting back, supporting dowry-free weddings, for example. What are we doing in the U.S.? Perhaps the easiest and most urgent step is to defeat the misogynists at the polls in November.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rants of crazed Republicans in the United States about the legitimacy of rape has reminded me of the struggle of women in India against a blame-the-victim mentality that still plagues both gender relationships and the attitudes of public security officials, as documented in this recent article. Here&#146;s a billboard from Varanasi I found a [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2272,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions\/2272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kairosphotos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}