An Indian woman who had an arranged marriage in her early 20s says the new Netflix series 'Indian Matchmaking' reveals some hard truths about the way women are objectified.
“I was definitely very hurt, very angry,” she said of finding out about her matrimonial profile. “At the same time, maybe there was a part of me that was resigned to this. I pretty much knew that that was going to be the way things would be for me.”
The Netflix show is an unfiltered portrayal of the archaic structures that still surround marriages in India and for Indian families living in the U.S. “Tall, trim, and fair” is a set of terms heard frequently throughout the show — revealing a preference across the board for thin women with a lighter skin color. One mother even commented at the beginning of the show that she wouldn’t accept any woman below 5’3 for her son.
For these same reasons, a viral Twitter thread by someone who was forced into an arranged marriage system has gained traction in light of the show. Nikita Doval described extremely misogynistic and traumatic meetings with potential grooms and their families, including those in which the potential groom's mother would openly ask things like, “Are you a virgin?”
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