Wow! This was so well researched and well thought out. The points that you made in this absolutely make sense and are really important. The idea of women being treated as an object for male gaze has been prevalent since God knows how long. There’s something about men that absolutely baffles me. They want a woman to be of a certain type. Like they want them to always look youthful when they can become old and still demand the same kind of praise for their old ‘daddy’ look. They don’t want them to be really outspoken or curse for that matter because according to them cursing is man’s thing and a woman should never do so. We all saw that happening with apoorva during that whole latent situation. It’s funny that she got called out for just saying the word vagina when in reality she was just trying to take a stand for herself and her friend in front of that scoundrel. People, especially men were so quick to cancel her and abuse her, give her rape threats just because she said that word, as if men are so chaste and pure that they never even mention a reference to female genitalia in their day to day convos. They can do that and be absolutely fault free but when a woman says that, automatically it becomes a problem. Fuck them. The point I want to make is, this mindset of men treating women as binaries is really fucked up. What Freud said is quite baseless and stupid. Art has to be blamed for all this to be honest. Like in Bollywood, there’s always an attractive dancer on the vilalin’s side trying to seduce the hero. And then on the other side, there was always the nice one. The responsible one. The one who can be a wife you can say. Why? Why do we have to make a difference? Can’t women be both? Can’t they have qualities of both types? Why can’t they be sexy and sanskari both? Is it so difficult? No. But the media always tries to stereotype everything. Men might hate women being sexually expressive but they will be the first ones to absolutely go Gaga over a sensual scene with a woman in a movie. We all saw what happened when tripti did ‘that’ scene in animal (absolutely fucked up movie btw). Women can be whores and be looked down upon by men, but men can never be called like this. They are playboys if they date multiple women or even sleep with them. They are womanizers. That’s so cool. Hypocritical bullshit. 🙄
A great article btw. This deserves to be published in the newspaper or some magazine. It needs to be read by all. And especially men. Thank you for writing this.
And yes! Title is so coool!!! You always eat and left no crumbs in that department!!!!!<3
Wow! This was so well researched and well thought out. The points that you made in this absolutely make sense and are really important. The idea of women being treated as an object for male gaze has been prevalent since God knows how long. There’s something about men that absolutely baffles me. They want a woman to be of a certain type. Like they want them to always look youthful when they can become old and still demand the same kind of praise for their old ‘daddy’ look. They don’t want them to be really outspoken or curse for that matter because according to them cursing is man’s thing and a woman should never do so. We all saw that happening with apoorva during that whole latent situation. It’s funny that she got called out for just saying the word vagina when in reality she was just trying to take a stand for herself and her friend in front of that scoundrel. People, especially men were so quick to cancel her and abuse her, give her rape threats just because she said that word, as if men are so chaste and pure that they never even mention a reference to female genitalia in their day to day convos. They can do that and be absolutely fault free but when a woman says that, automatically it becomes a problem. Fuck them. The point I want to make is, this mindset of men treating women as binaries is really fucked up. What Freud said is quite baseless and stupid. Art has to be blamed for all this to be honest. Like in Bollywood, there’s always an attractive dancer on the vilalin’s side trying to seduce the hero. And then on the other side, there was always the nice one. The responsible one. The one who can be a wife you can say. Why? Why do we have to make a difference? Can’t women be both? Can’t they have qualities of both types? Why can’t they be sexy and sanskari both? Is it so difficult? No. But the media always tries to stereotype everything. Men might hate women being sexually expressive but they will be the first ones to absolutely go Gaga over a sensual scene with a woman in a movie. We all saw what happened when tripti did ‘that’ scene in animal (absolutely fucked up movie btw). Women can be whores and be looked down upon by men, but men can never be called like this. They are playboys if they date multiple women or even sleep with them. They are womanizers. That’s so cool. Hypocritical bullshit. 🙄
A great article btw. This deserves to be published in the newspaper or some magazine. It needs to be read by all. And especially men. Thank you for writing this.
And yes! Title is so coool!!! You always eat and left no crumbs in that department!!!!!<3
hypocritical indeed, man. thankyou for always being so kind towards my work too <3
This is really powerful. You explained everything so clearly and made big ideas easy to understand.
The way you connected pop culture, psychology, and feminism is powerful.
Every line made me think!
You’ve written this so well.
I’m really proud of you.
thankyouu!! this is very kind of you <3