S Petchiammal, a 57-year-old Indian single mother, has been posing as a man for 36 years, all to be able to raise her daughter safely.
37 years ago, a 20-year-old girl named Pekiamar married a local lad in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. After only 15 days of marriage, she became a widow due to her husband's sudden death from a heart attack. And Pechiamal was pregnant.
In India, a single woman with a child is as precarious as a piece of fat mutton.
But Pekiamar still decided optimistically. She had no education and could not find a decent job to make ends meet, so she had to work on construction sites, hotel companies or teahouses.
However, she was seen everywhere as an unlucky widow, discriminated against, withheld wages, and even harassed by other male workers on a daily basis.
Forced into a corner, she thought of a way out of her way — to become a man. She cut off her long hair and changed into a blouse and robe.
He then changed his identity card and bank information, moved to another village, and redesigned a new life under a different identity called Muthu.
For the next 36 years, she mixed with a group of men every day, used the men's toilet, and behaved more and more like a man...
Relying on her male status, she does a variety of jobs, from painters, tea artists, making crepes to hundreds of days. She found a way to save every penny to ensure that her daughter's life was safe and secure.
By the end, she had become so much like a man that wherever she worked, people would call her "Annachi.".
During these 36 years, no one found out that she was actually a woman, only her daughter and close relatives knew the secret.
Thanks to her efforts, her daughter has now grown up and married smoothly. Now she can shed the disguise of identity, but she still decided to continue to be a man: "This identity has brought my daughter a stable life, so I will remain a man until I die." 」 ”
For this great mother who is a real father and a mother, netizens also expressed great admiration:
"She is a woman who is greater than many men, and she gives her children both fatherly and maternal love."
"To be honest, she overcame a lot of difficulties and she sounded like an incredible woman."
However, under the cover of various praises, it reflects the extremely bad and despicable situation of Indian women.
For example, an Indian female journalist did not find danger approaching him during a routine interview, and five unknown men extended their claws to him and violently abused him. After sparking massive mass protests, India eventually brought the rioters to justice and arrested them.
After several years of rectification, this kind of thing did not stop because of this, but intensified.
In April 2018, a female college student who was raped by a local member used self-immolation to express her protest and dissatisfaction, and then the girl's father accidentally died in the police station in order to get justice for the child.
Even the little girl abroad was not spared, a five-year-old girl who was violated by an Indian man at the Indian Embassy in the United States.
This kind of thing in India really feels amazing and it gets the international focus every time. India is also one of the top 10 countries in the world for rape rates.
There is an old Chinese saying that when you have enough food and clothing, you know honor and disgrace. Although the whole of India is an ancient civilization, the entire economy is poor, and there is a lack of etiquette in the overall education, such as the nine-year compulsory education on the mainland, which is not available in India.
There is also the Hindu patriarchal ideology.
For India, the caste system is deeply entrenched, and many girls in India do not need to go to school.
Some families with slightly better conditions are likely to send their girls to school. A large part of the decision on whether a girl's future life after marriage depends on the amount of the dowry. So far, arranged marriages and child marriages in India are very serious.
Most critically, the quality of grass-roots law enforcement officers in India is extremely poor.
Indian superstar Aamir Khan has said:
In 2012, the court accepted 100,141 rape cases, while only 3,563 rapists were convicted that year, and only 3.5% of all cases were truly convicted.
For Indian women, survival is already difficult, and it is even more difficult to defend their rights after being violated. reporting rape in India,
And what makes you even more unthinkable is how ambiguous the definition of rape can be. social
Such ideas and cultures nourish evil and make sexual assault a not uncommon occurrence in India. Only extremely cruel cases can arouse the deep conscience of those who arouse numbness.
But no matter how much indignation, it will eventually be lost in time.
In the end, only the deformed idea of male superiority and inferiority remains, deeply rooted in the depths of every Indian. This is the accomplice – to give the perpetrators of evil a sense of fearlessness.
In the movie "Daughter of India", it is said:
"If a boy grows up in such an environment, he will naturally feel that women are unimportant and can be treated casually.
Today, women around the world are working tirelessly for equal rights. I sincerely hope that Indian women can be respected and can live safely and healthily, and break free from the shackles of cultural concepts and enter a new life as soon as possible.
However, India still has a long way to go.