"Priyanka Chopra was in a translucent sari strewn with zardozi trinkets and a border to match, providing the winter-struck Berliners a warm glimpse of her well-chiseled physical assets."This struck me like a lightning. I felt ashamed. For some time now, I've been puzzling myself about how have the women of the society been sadly made to become objects. Is it just nature that women were made to attract and men were made to fall? May be it's no longer about attracting or falling, or may be it still is, but let us dissect this a bit with a childhood incident of mine.
In buses in India, when the conductor doesn't have sufficient change to return, he signs behind the ticket and asks you to collect the change later. If you forget, you miss the change, and the money is his. I used to get down at the last stop, so I see the conductor tally his records every day. One such day, as the conductor was holding a conversation with the driver, I heard him say, "Let us see how many fools have left their money, we can use it for our drinks today". Oops! That was all enough. A realization dawned on me - "I am not going to give away anything to anyone for free. Let him deserve it. Else, neither does he know how to handle it responsibly nor does he know how to make the best use of it."
Coming back to our men-women discussion, when did it all start? Why is it that women wear lesser clothes compared to their men counterparts? If you'd any doubts, try observing the pictures above. But wait, it's not about less or more, it's about looking smart, right? Sure, women look smarter in these clothes, I will buy that argument. But that is my point. Read on.
Have you seen these young college going guys rip off in their motorcycles with a loud noise? Have you seen them with tight shirts and coloured hair, trying to behave like film heroes? Girls, what have you thought about them? "Ah these morons!" Right? There are some real morons who try to misbehave, but let us leave them aside. I am talking about these harmless kids whose motive is just to show off and attract attention through their smartness. Guys may not remark, "Ah these moronesses!", but I assume you know there is a comment coming out of their radio scanning.
Now, why will you have to tune your living for these morons? Absolutely, please don't. I know you're just dressing the way you want to, not necessarily to look smart or to attract. If the eyes looking at you are improper, that is not your problem. If girls dressing sexily is bad, men shaving is bad too. Combing your hair is bad, ironing your clothes is bad. So where do we draw the line?
I wish we never had to draw any line. But as much as I wish I could leave my house doors open when I leave for work, I also wish the security was foolproof in every nook and corner of the world. Between my ideal wish of the former and the practical impossibility of the latter, I think it's fine that we find a middle ground and lock our doors when we leave our house. I really admire art in every form and for that matter I respect Vidya Balan and The Dirty Picture. But is it all worth? I am not sure, this world has gone too far from deserving any free lunch.
