It is so inspiring to see these women! Thank you for this video, Jessica. Can't beat good news in the morning.

Well, wow. It's really awesome that these women are stepping up and making their own futures better. I'm not sure if I can agree with beating up men who are violent towards women, but in certain situations where the police won't step in and do their jobs, I can see where the desperation to scare them off from their violent ways might produce that sort of action. I love that she teaches the other women valuable skills so that they can survive without their families or husbands, and they have actual options. Go Gulabai!

This is an awesome video. Go, Gulabi indeed.
I hope these women are able to stay strong in the face of adversity and affect change across their society.

It's really inspiring that the women are all banding together and taking charge of their situations. Awesome video!

...Though it would probably be more awesome if the new site formatting wasn't still screwed up and pushing the right column left so that the video is half obscured by the Related Posts. Is that ever gonna get fixed? Because honestly? I've stopped coming to Feministing as much as I used to and that makes me sad. The messed up formatting gives me a major headache. :(

So exciting to watch!!! These are women I can look up to.

Damn, I love these women! You go, ladies! I'd join them if I were living in that country. Just... wow. Things are changing, slowly, but they are changing. I really admire the Pink Gang!

Damn, I love these women! You go, ladies! I'd join them if I were living in that country. Just... wow. Things are changing, slowly, but they are changing. I really admire the Pink Gang!

Damn, I love these women! You go, ladies! I'd join them if I were living in that country. Just... wow. Things are changing, slowly, but they are changing. I really admire the Pink Gang!

Whoops, triple post! Sorry!

It is lovely to see them being fearless in a way that many western women still can't pull off.

I agree with Anna, though, beating men up really isn't the way to go, it just creates an economy of fear.

I'd say their beating up men is merely self-defence. If someone rapes and batters you, you have the right to defend yourself. Or those you love. And they don't really have another option in that system. If I lived over there and someone was beating my friend, I'd try and talk to them, and if they didn't listen I'd have to get violent because how else can you defend yourself or your loved ones against someone who is being violent towards them?

I was heartened to see that some Indian men are supportive of the Gulabi Gang and their goals.

Although I would usually agree that vigilantism is not the way to go, in poor male-dominated backwaters they can't just sit and wait for the law and the situation to change.

Add my kudos with the rest of y'all.

I do, however, have a question. I've never seen a VC² video, so I'd like to know if it's normal practice to show what they did re: the video creator's picture (even during the video) and basic stats.

I was already having a good day, and watching that video made it even better. Those women just reminded me why I am a feminist. I actually stopped coming to Feministing for awhile because I often left feeling depressed after reading about all the horrible atrocities being committed against women worldwide, and I felt helpless to do anything about it. I don't even have an answer to the problems that women face within my own community. These women have the answer. I'm incredibly inspired.

Bethmario, I've been there with the depression when you read about horrible things happening. What helped pull me out of it was realizing that someone was paying attention enough to make others aware of it.

Hell yeah! Can we form lady gangs in every city please? I don't want to beat anyone up, but I would love to take the streets back with a group of awesome women more than once a year on Take Back the Night.

What an unbelievably brave woman. This is feminism at the grass roots level. Married at 12 and 15 children later she still has the time and energy to fight for the rights of all women in her community. In affluent countries, the plight of women in developing nations often seems beyond help, but these women are showing US how it's done. Truly inspiring.

I've thought this would be a good mechanism to clean up corruption in India for a great deal of time. Then I learnt how gangs like the Bloods and the Crips started as protection gangs. I am reminded of a quote by Martin Luther King Jr., "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

By using violence as a mechanism for compliance, it becomes a game of who is stronger, more skilled, has the better weapon, and more people.

I think the only way that sustainable, and widespread change can occur is to change it from inside the government. Keep in mind that India elected a woman prime minister, Indira Ghandi, 30 years ago. Were as, look how much of an issue was made about Hillary running for Presidency.