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I was shocked to see the advertisement (Mail Today, published on December 31, 2009, page 29) showing smiling and pleased-parents while seeing their drunk daughter, dressed in micros, being helped by a driver of a radio taxi to make her reach her home. Ms Kanika Gahlaut (Mail Today, January 7, 2010, ‘fashion addict’ LIFEstyle page 26) has tried to analyse the scene from entirely an extra-intellectual perspective (in a way that avoids attention of the 'pink chaddies' campaigners), but let me admit that I am not afraid of their ‘pink chaddies’ in case they decide to fling this way as I know that they do not need them any way! Kanika, you are missing your own point. Fact is that however liberal you try to become (by asking questions on the relevance of any kind of moral policing) there is always something that can always shock you and make you a moral police as you did in your article by stating what one actually wears (thereby meaning that what one should wear) while going for a drink-party (of course in order to lose their senses). According to my sensibilities, if women think there is nothing wrong in falling-drunk in someone’s lap as long as ‘licking the pavement’ after getting drunk is avoided; if they think that there is nothing wrong in ‘bending over a pot with their fingers down the throat’ as far as they take precautions for not ‘displaying their knickers’ while doing so and if they think that there is nothing wrong in ‘losing their dignity’ if they are doing so without ‘compromising their modesty’, then it just means that they can never agree with somebody who has a problem with all these in their first instances itself. On the other hand how can you be so sure that no women would like to go for the extremes that have been projected by you as avoidable?
Truth is that if (as Kanika means) women think that they will not live to men’s fantasy if they get drunk with all their clothes on, then they just do not know men. Men know that one step will lead to the other. Men fantasise about drunk-woman who can be dressed (undressed?) according to their wishes. If women think that it is they who enjoy while drinking in a party then I must enlighten them that in fact men enjoy more in seeing them drinking. All men, of course those who do not enjoy their family life, encourage women to take up drinking so that they can enjoy their company. These men know that in the name of women liberation and women empowerment they can always make women to live their fantasies while making them realise that they are actually being empowered. These men know that in the name of making artistic calendars, bold movies and happening parties they can satisfy their porno-hungry intents. I can only hope that instead of flinging ‘chaddies’ towards others and dancing-drunk to the tunes of the fantasies of these disgruntled men they just start wearing them.
I was shocked to see the advertisement (Mail Today, published on December 31, 2009, page 29) showing smiling and pleased-parents while seeing their drunk daughter, dressed in micros, being helped by a driver of a radio taxi to make her reach her home. Ms Kanika Gahlaut (Mail Today, January 7, 2010, ‘fashion addict’ LIFEstyle page 26) has tried to analyse the scene from entirely an extra-intellectual perspective (in a way that avoids attention of the 'pink chaddies' campaigners), but let me admit that I am not afraid of their ‘pink chaddies’ in case they decide to fling this way as I know that they do not need them any way! Kanika, you are missing your own point. Fact is that however liberal you try to become (by asking questions on the relevance of any kind of moral policing) there is always something that can always shock you and make you a moral police as you did in your article by stating what one actually wears (thereby meaning that what one should wear) while going for a drink-party (of course in order to lose their senses). According to my sensibilities, if women think there is nothing wrong in falling-drunk in someone’s lap as long as ‘licking the pavement’ after getting drunk is avoided; if they think that there is nothing wrong in ‘bending over a pot with their fingers down the throat’ as far as they take precautions for not ‘displaying their knickers’ while doing so and if they think that there is nothing wrong in ‘losing their dignity’ if they are doing so without ‘compromising their modesty’, then it just means that they can never agree with somebody who has a problem with all these in their first instances itself. On the other hand how can you be so sure that no women would like to go for the extremes that have been projected by you as avoidable?
Truth is that if (as Kanika means) women think that they will not live to men’s fantasy if they get drunk with all their clothes on, then they just do not know men. Men know that one step will lead to the other. Men fantasise about drunk-woman who can be dressed (undressed?) according to their wishes. If women think that it is they who enjoy while drinking in a party then I must enlighten them that in fact men enjoy more in seeing them drinking. All men, of course those who do not enjoy their family life, encourage women to take up drinking so that they can enjoy their company. These men know that in the name of women liberation and women empowerment they can always make women to live their fantasies while making them realise that they are actually being empowered. These men know that in the name of making artistic calendars, bold movies and happening parties they can satisfy their porno-hungry intents. I can only hope that instead of flinging ‘chaddies’ towards others and dancing-drunk to the tunes of the fantasies of these disgruntled men they just start wearing them.
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Dear Rakesh,
You look to be very determined to expose the intention of all, the writer of the article, the parents of drunk girls, the drunk girls, the pink chaddhi flingers and all and sundry. Believe me there's no use taking so much of a pain for them.
I have altogether different angle for them. I think all these people are nothing but fame hungry people. I don't think they think so deeply as deeply as you have tried to analyse their intents. They are all shallow their thoughts and principles are hollow, they just want publicity nothing more.
Being drunk is no women empowerment when on the other hand they want separate que for buying tickets or reserved seats in metros and buses. What a joke.
The key to everything is in Being balanced which none of them are. Getting drunk and wearing skimpy clothes is one extreme and beating them by being a moral police is another extreme. Both the acts cannot be justified. I condemn them both.
The need of the hour is to have balanced thinking society. Women empowerment in real terms is where women's real potential is not suppressed, they are facilitated for getting good education, making them financially independent and having equal say in the family and society matters.
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