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I don’t get it. So kissing is against Indian ‘culture’ (or so say the moral police), but threatening people with sexual assault as punishment by the very same goons is ‘our culture’? Will some of the Bheeshma Pitha Mahas and Dhritarashtras among our so called ‘wise’ population answer?
Hint: Bheeshma and Dhritarashtra are elders who kept a judicious (?!) silence citing stupid technicalities when Draupadi, daughter-in-law of the house, was dragged into court and an attempt to disrobe her made by brother-law Dushassan at the orders of his older brother Duryodhana, to whom Draupadi’s husbands had lost her in a game of dice in the epic, Mahabharata. Yeah I know, your head just reeled, right?
What a perfect precedent for the goons to fall back on when things don’t go their way. Not that they have ‘won’ women in any present day equivalent of a game of dice. But they know a little pretense of being custodians of morality (and especially women) never hurt, and would take them far in life in a country full of clones of the same silent spectators at the court that fateful day.
Sad that there are family and friends speaking up against kissing, but not against threats of sexual violence!
What brought this on: link.
A relevant post: Kiss of Love
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Wth!!! these parties damage the name of Hinduism by these acts..as is done in the name of great people…Shivaji Maharaj..Ambedkar..etc.
Do they have any clue what they are saying? I have my doubts.
Yes..as they say..a person has mind, a mob is mindless..
Thats terrible ….threatening people with sexual assault !!
All this from the land from where Kamasutra came…irony !
Anyone who threatens assault has to be dealt with by the law. I mean it is not a joke, is it?
Yeah Ma’am, this is the terrific fact of this society!! ….these communities act their own, even provoke individual to walk with them for non-sense agenda!!
Threatening people with assault is serious offence, isn’t it?
Yeah Ma’am!!!
One of my school friends had posted fb status ” If a couple went for kiss of love protest and saw their daughter ( mind you not son ! ) kissing a guy in the protest, how would they feel”….
and a cousin liked and shared fb status ” Only those who are sure their dear ones would not attend the protest will support it. Those who are supporting should SEND their mother, daughter, sister ( again not father, son or brother ) to the protest and ALLOW them to kiss A STRANGER, then only it will be true support. ”
These are from so called NEW EDUCATED generation….I have lost hope 😦
The Kiss of Love organisers had some telling answers to give to morons who asked such idiotic questions, one of which was whether they’d bring along their mother and sister for the event.
This was it: “‘Mother’ and ‘sister’ are two independent individuals. If they want to, they will participate. If they participate my family’s morals will not collapse. Everyone who participates similarly will be someone’s sister, mother, father or brother.” More here: http://theladiesfinger.com/keralas-kiss-of-love-campaigns-rude-hilarious-perfect-response-to-trolls/
But yes, it is always the mother and sister, isn’t it? Never the father or brother. And hope, I have lost it too seeing the educated (so called) janta’s responses. I feel totally isolated for holding the views I do among those around me, whether online or off. 😦
facepalm
Absolutely defies logic!!
Really very few who can see it that way, Pixie and that’s really so depressing.
Sigh. Sigh. The never ending stories of the puranas, now out in new edition. Sigh.
Newer versions keep popping up! Sigh.
I hadn’t heard of the Kiss of Love protest movement.
Hard to justify condemning consensual love and condoning the treatment of a person as property to do with that you like.
When we will finally reach there is the question that haunts. Thank you for visiting, and welcome to Shail’s Nest 🙂
I guess it’s because India is still a male dominated society. Maybe the reason is because if they see a girl actively doing something that is wrong, they will jump at it, but if it’s a guy doing something that is conceived wrong in places outside India, then it is ok. Such a shame.
Why it is so is clear. The question is when and how this will change. A real shame indeed.
hypocrites – that’s what I have to say about them!
Agree.
I find it amusing when people talk like this .. especially the moral police Who gave them the right to police that ..
and they are the worst offenders …
Indeed they are the worst offenders.
I’m so glad that I read your blog and that you open up my eyes to stories I would have otherwise missed. Until your earlier post, I hadn’t heard of the Kiss of Love protest.
It is a recent development, Mel and a symbolic expression against moral policing. I really hope it spreads wider and at least the next generation has it better.