Saturday, October 11, 2014

Few good men !!

In defense of a few good men.

Moments ago, I finished reading an extensively descriptive article about 2 different women of this country. One experimenting, the other, being experimented on. The former is on a quest of dating 50 men and the latter on the whims of a distrustful father is opting for an arranged marriage.
I have heard, read and spoken about innumerable such stories looking at the way things are and could be, however, from the perspective of a woman. Surprisingly, I haven`t come across a single male-centric article on the issue. So I wondered and asked around other fellow gentlemen why, the answers I got were
  • ·         We are men, we watch football and drink beer (I`d personally prefer whisky and when the woman on me awakens she asks for espresso vodka – (not being sexist))
  • ·         I don`t understand what you are talking about – is this got to do with the new playboy edition
  • ·         If I do write about something like this, a feminist will take a single line out of context and screw my life and probably my writing career – they are too touchy about it (rightly so) – but it is hard to write it in a politically correct way – that we do CARE – at least some of us do

             I take up the mantle, not more than 5 people are gonna read this, but well, I have to write.
             Having spoken to and being in the community of men, I have heard disappointing, blood-boiling, funny, fresh, down-right dumb etc tales on what women are for men, and the broader issue of marriage (the licence to have sex). (Right now, I think, a marriage, is an idea who`s time has gone, we need to move on and as a civilization look for something beyond – never mind about that now)

 But let me tell you, there is an increase in these new breed of men, who think and want to move beyond definition – but are fearful at the backlash of the community, at the stereotype we men are supposed to follow and to add not many women are accommodating that. Personally, I just know handfuls who acknowledge it.
What stereotype? the one with man who`s got a swim-suit body and who`s just out of the gym, the raw bull, the beer guzzling – yelling out loud, unaccommodating yet chivalrous, the smart yet cute, the workman who fixes mechanical instruments (magically) and to top it all knows all that is to know about a computer hardware/software/patches/programs/tools everything – you the get the idea. And the one I personally hate – is the idea of a man who constantly has to sing and dance and crack jokes just to let the woman not be bored. So here`s to all those men – who do all this, not out of heart – but just to “fit in” –

“Get a life !!”

We are not born as your play toys, we are not nothing if we do not have a fat bank balance, we are not as Tyler puts it right – the all singing all dancing crap of this world, if we admire how beautiful you look – don’t hate us, if we ask you out – don`t call us perverts, if we read and have fat bellys don`t call us undesirable or shabby.

Indian men socially, are as fucked up as women – just because they have to :
  • ·         Study hard, get good grades so they are deemed intelligent
  • ·         + get a fat bank account, keep looking decent, belly tucked in -  to marry a girl (the thot disgusts me)
  • ·         Fight/compete with I don`t know – a billion other men to get a good job to accomplish all this
  • ·         Get a house for themselves (look at the real estate prices) and then plan to settle down (and die)
  • Let me tell you, its not easy being a man in this country, and to be a good man its increasingly difficult and improbable. I`m not saying have pity on us, nor am I saying we`re more anguished than you women. All I’m saying is we are almost as screwed up as you, we hate all the dogma`s that tie both the man and the woman down and we have to live up to the shallow ideals just like you women do

So don`t hate us, don`t hate the guy who just looked at you and smiled, smile back at him and make his day for what it`s worth.  

The time to wake up from this sordid dream, I believe has come. To be unbound, unchained and to pursue, chase, follow, run, swim – to do and be impulsive at every passing second, be it man, woman, child.

The idea is to be, just, be.

He for she for as much as she for he.

**I`d want to be a woman in the next run, just to see how things turn out.
Enough said.

hdk

PS:



THE APOLOGY

Having said all that above, to add to it – I apologize.

  • I apologize for that piece of shit who made you think twice before wearing that beautiful dress
  • I apologize for the men who don`t make you feel safe on the roads
  •  I apologize for men who look at you the wrong way
  • I apologize for men who say "she has good boobs, i`ll marry her !!" , when they say they want to marry just to have a licence to have sex
  •  Not being the white knight – but those are due to`s for which this note saw the light of day, else i`d be reading Kafka –  so I hate them as much as you do.




1 comment:

Unknown said...

Well this can be topic of debate ... as kids ... girls are given dolls to take care .. feed them ..change their clothes.. Toy vacuums and fake cleaning supplies or possibly a toy iron to play along with mom's homemaker tasks.... and then you grow up with this terror of bleeding 7 days a month ... feeling sick and extrem mood swings 3 days prior and 3 days after red days ... so here we waste your 13 days out of 30 .... and then you viewed like this fashion object ... where these fashion mazaine shows skinny models ...and you under pressure to at least look like one and then you end up checking stores for one good pushup bra...so that you get someway near to those dummy models ... .. and then in this competitive world you need to fight back with the opposite gender so that people don't think that you are weak and emotional .. so you pretend that you are not one who'll loose a battle easily. ... and then comes marriage ...where you don't only change you house but your identity ..your name ... haha ... and then kids ..labour pain ...and a mess with your body..Once again you out of shape .... checking twice what you wear ... and those hormonal changes ... menopause...eeewkk. . .. I wish to be a man my next run .... However I am very proud to be a girl ... at the end of the day you'll always find us smiling ..Nd enjoying the so called womanhood .. :)

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