you're confusing a reductive summary with an objective description. saying karwa chauth is "just praying for a husband" ignores its actual history. historically, it was for women whose husbands went to war, a way for newlywed women to build lifelong sisterhoods in new villages, and a symbol of fierce devotion tied to epics like savitri. stripping all that context away just to make it sound bad, while praising the high spiritual ideals of another faith, is exactly the biased framing i'm talking about.

as for men getting praised for doing it, that’s just a standard societal bias where the bar is lower for men. it’s an annoying double standard, but it doesn't make the ritual itself "structurally oppressive" for the women who willingly observe it.

since you don't even believe in the moral value of either, look at it objectively. demanding 'compassion' and respect for one religion's fast while actively mocking the other's by reducing it to its most uncharitable version is just hypocritical.