P is a part of people's prejudice

YOU DISCRIMINATE

18/1/2015:

seva cafe- time 7:30 pm

New faces were introducing there talent on stage when the atmosphere changed. . .

Fun was replaced with Fear

Fear... for me
I got a tight resounding slap from my fiance. . .
in front of everyone

The suffocating silence was broken by some theatre artist calling for attention to enact their play on gender discrimination.

The play displayed a girl getting suffocated in her home by her strict and orthodox parents treating their brother like a king, and daughter, like a convict.

"Tu khud ko badal, tu khud ko badal tab hi to zamana badlega" - song sung by the performers between the scenes

They paused the play at critical points and replaced the girl with a member of the audience resulting in heated discussions. The play ended with the girl sitting in the temple like a devi and everybody worshipping her while the mediator recited a poem by Kamla Bhasin,

"Tum ladki ho, tumhe kyu padna hai?" (poem)

I was watching the play. I was watching the paradox.

Moments before the play, my fiance was shouting at me like a loudspeaker because I earned more than him & he slapped me. 

Nobody reacted. They just watched.

The same people were discussing on the issue they just ignored. WHY?

        I discriminate. 

        I am a part of it.

What is Culture? Everything Is Untouchable

Girl: Mom I am going out with friends for a movie.

Mom: What? Have you seen the time? Its 8:00 pm. . .Go back to your room

Boy: Mom I am going out with friends for a movie. Bye son. 

Mom: The scene above look similar yet belong to vastly different planets.-

                                                    

                                                                MARS & VENUS

Criminalizing Section 377, Gang rapes etc are topics for protest yet no one looks to the root cause of it. Every crime stems from its home.

Why was section 377 criminalized? With all due respect, because the mindset of the judge giving the judgement was what he learned while growing up: Unnatural "sex". Prey tell me someone, who gave the definition of natural sex? His childhood.

Rape happens not because of the so called "uncontrollable urge" but our habit to wield power over someone. Had the uncontrollable urge been really uncontrollable, condoms would replace money.

In Indian Culture, generally, the woman of the house always brings the array of refreshments for a guest. A male would never do that!!! I talk from my own experience when I requested my mother to let my big brother to do it instead of me.

Men wearing shorts to a departmental store is normal. They are guys after all.They can't be expected to dress up properly for morning or night trips to a departmental store. I went in shorts to the departmental store. Why was I receiving weird looks from the aunties present there?

Its not that I gave a sultry or seducing look(usually the charge on a girl, "She asked for it!!")A guy there looked rather the picture but got no looks.

All of this is not the fault of our culture but of a game, "CHINESE WHISPERS"

Humans mold everything with time. What might have been a beautiful custom centuries ago was twisted into something rigid and choking.

For just an example, Unnatural sex was never unnatural. History is PROOF

The Sun Temple at Konarak in Orissa(some of the very few works that have survived the government's attempt to erase homosexual traditions from Indian history) where lesbian love is cast in stone. Artistic works depicting Male love  can be found in the world's most prestigious museums, including the Louvre, the British Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Smithsonian.

'The word of man is defeated by a stone.’

Why do we discriminate so much? Between a daughter and a son, between the roles of a husband & a wife, between a gay couple and a couple from the opposite sexes? Most importantly, why do we blame it on culture? Its not culture, its ego, its a resistance to change because we are comfortable where we are.

I got my definition of culture.

Culture is the battle of the sexes