Activism by SIFF at Present

We demand Men’s Right to Self Defense on the Streets, when a woman assaults a man.

Today there are increasing incidents of women assaulting innocent men on the streets. Police rarely intervenes or filed a First Information Report (FIR) in such cases. Due to politicians and judiciary pandering to such violent women, police rarely arrests these women and sends them to prison.
That is why SIFF Activists are demanding the Right to “Self Defense” for these men who are getting assaulted by women on the streets. These men must be legally allowed to defend themselves using their hands, legs or any objects like a stick  etc. The men must not face any legal consequences for such acts of self defense, if it injures the female assailant or assaulter.

We demand a ban on usage and references to Patriarchy Theory by all Govt officials and Educational Institutions

Patriarchy Theory is an unscientific theory in social sciences. It was introduced by American Anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan in a chapter in his book Ancient Society in 1877. Today, many proponents of Patriarchy Theory worship it as some kind of real phenomenon, and not just as a theory. They refuse to discuss in open about any limitations of this theory.

This unscientific handling of Patriarchy Theory can severely damage the foundations of societies, cultures and civilizations. Needless to say, any policies made based on this theory can increase crime rates and create many other social problems like drug abuse and suicides.

Slogans and Banners:

Govt, ban Patriarchy Theory. Because it is fascist.
Govt, Please can education of Patriatchy Theory is colleges.
Because it is fascist.

Patriarchy Theory!!
Privileged men love it.
They love to use it to make other men slaves!
They love to use it to promote violence on poor men!!

We demand a Special Marital Pledge, where bride and groom will bring equal resources and securities into the marriage.

Today Govt and Judiciary often claim that a bad marriage can lead to life long destitution of one of the spouses, especially the female spouse. Needless to say, this blame is often assigned to the man and he gets penalized and punished for causing destitution of the woman.

We believe, marriage in today’s world has to happen between two people of equal status as everyone is talking about gender equality. Hence, both bride and the groom must declare what resources and securities they are bringing into the marriage.

These resources and securities can be:

1. 1. 1. Jobs of the bride and the groom
      2. Financial Assets
      3. Land and residential properties
      4. Equities, mutual funds and bank fixed deposits etc.

The bride and groom must work for several years to create these resources and securities. Only then, they should get married. This whole notion of  “Getting married in Do jode kapde” has to be thrown into a dustbin.

If the Bride brings security into the marriage by doing the job, then she can not quit the job at will. If she loses the job, then she has to put substantial effort to get back to a job at the earliest. The same applies for the man. He also can not quit the job at will.

If job status of the bride or the groom is on shaky ground, then they must show resources, assets via business, self employment activities like stitching, tailoring, tutoring children, consulting etc.

Kanyadaan has to be banned as this ancient context is no longer valid today. Also we must note that feminists are opposing this custom. Kanya or the bride not wealth or Ghar ki Lakshmi (Goddess of Wealth) in today’s context.

In ancient times, women were baby making machines and they used to face great hardships and risks during child birth. As children used bring prosperity, the woman used to be considered as wealth. This is no longer valid in today’s world.

Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961 has to be scarpped:

We call for immediate scrapping of the dowry prohibition act. It is an ill defined and badly drafted law, which was rarely enforced. Govt never appointed Dowry Prohibition Officers and those who wanted to give or take dowries did so in open. People were never discouraged from huge marriage expenses.

Dowry Prohibition Act will be an obstacle, if bride and the groom openly discuss about what resources each of them are bringing to the table, while getting married. The groom wont have freedom to ask the bride, what she is bringing to the table, while he may bring his job, savings in the bank, equity investments or properties into the marriage.

People who can not create resources and securities should not get married. They should wait till they earn and save to create resources and securities to be married. The groom should not be the only one to be held responsible for creation of resources, assets and provide financial security in a marriage. The man should not be the only one to take the blame for any destitution for a spouse in marriage.

If gender roles have to be eliminated, then traditional male roles also have to be eliminated. Govt and Judiciary have no right to keep pulling men in two different directions, one being progress and other bring traditional. Millions of men are getting torn due to such irresponsible stands and policies of Govt and the Judiciary.

We demand Judiciary to apologize for all the illegal imprisonments of men, women and children under Section 498a.

As a Govt body judiciary has to show its commitment to end false cases in this country. The will to tackle this problem is completely lacking. Judges do not use IPC section 211 and other IPC sections to severely punish people who file frivolous and fake cases. Its time Judiciary apologizes for all the illegal imprisonments and takes responsibility for allowing people to misuse judicial processes.

Judiciary has deliberately made matrimonial litigations highly adversarial. We demand it to stop this.

While it blames the Govt for bad law making, judiciary has contributed to adversarial litigations with its extreme positions in the issues like alimony. These extreme positions almost always lead to very poor success rate of counseling and mediation process in matrimonial litigations. Instead of blaming the husband or wife, judiciary must immediately appoint an amicus curiae to create a new framework to reduce adversarial litigations. This responsibility lies with judiciary.