Bad-ass women of the Day: Gulabi Gang

Every time I read about feminist activism in India I can’t help but start to get really excited and want to jump up and down and point and say, loooook, look what they are doing! But you can’t really help it when a group of women get together in pink saris, call themselves a gang and fight against injustices done to their communities.
Meet the Gulabi gang, via BBC.

The pink women of Banda shun political parties and NGOs because, in the words of their feisty leader, Sampat Pal Devi, “they are always looking for kickbacks when they offer to fund us”.
Two years after they gave themselves a name and an attire, the pink women have thrashed men who have abandoned or beaten their wives and unearthed corruption in the distribution of food grains for the poor.
They have also stormed a police station and thrashed a policeman after they took in an untouchable man and refused to register a case.

Now I will say the story itself is alright, but it is always a little annoying when reporters put in their sexist, infantilizing two cents. I mean I was willing to look over the fact that they called the leader “feisty.” When are aggressive men ever called feisty? But then to further qualify this tone, he goes on.

The pink sorority is not exactly a group of male-bashing feminists – they claim they have returned 11 girls who were thrown out of their homes to their spouses because “women need men to live with”.
That is also why men like Jai Prakash Shivhari join the “gulabi” gang and talk with remarkable alacrity about child marriages, dowry deaths, depleting water resources, farm subsidies, and how funds are being stolen in government works.

Why are women that work for the rights of other women labeled as potentially male bashing? I am going to assume as this is written in the Indian and British media that this description is greatly influenced by Western feminisms bad PR that made it overseas. Either way, amazing story.
Thanks to Katherine for the link.
OK back to my male bashing. . .