What is wrong here? Why can’t we mention
“sex” in our conversation? Axn, Romedy now, Zee café, Star world, Star movies,
HBO...go silence when characters say
such words!
“ You had ----“ Phoebe said to Monica.
But in the subtitle…”you had sex!”
Or as in some channels “you had s*x!”
How hypocritical!
That is how it is on tv and in real life. You
can have sex, but talking about it and saying “sex” is a taboo.
It’s not just “sex” Even the word “whisper” gets the girls
uncomfortable while it makes guys giggle in my class.
I announced
that they were gonna play “the
Chinese whisper” in one of my classes and that shocked them to the core. They froze
for a few seconds. Why? “whisper” is a popular sanitary napkin brand!
What pisses me off (…oops! here’s another
word!) is that most people are okay with this restriction. They throw the
culture crap and say it doesn’t belong to our country – open talk about intimacy
and even personal hygiene. Well I’m not for swearing either (which I need to work
on myself) but when it is absolutely necessary why hesitate to mention “the
words?”
It is not good to pretend like it doesn’t
exist in our society. Ignorance is bliss but are we all ignorant? Our kids come
to know about how girls get their period, masturbation and sex through their
friends in school. I call this “extreme parenting” - Overprotection on one side and just letting
them deal with such important areas on their own on the other side. Internet teaches them more than what they
should know and it is the responsibility of the grownups to give them the
actual truth or fact about things. But how many of us do that?
Why do we have to
“whisper” such words? Why not say it loudly like it’s no sin?
In one of the
class group discussions a student said that it was the girl’s mistake that she
was gang raped in a moving bus and thrown away to die. He said that it was not
in our culture to have a boy friend or to go out with a boy late in the
evening. What was appalling was many students supported his view. We have, as a society,
made a 20 year old think that way!
Restrictions in the name of culture and that
too only for women. No offense to the
gay community, I always root for them. But I wish all men become gay, and leave
us alone!
All the restrictions do not make it any
easier on any one. It is just like a boiling molten lava underneath that gushes
out when a tiny pore forms on the surface.
