Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Damsel in Distress

Nothing is more revitalizing than a nice hangout with friends after an arduous day in office. KN has always been a fabulous place to chill out but today it was incredible with weather being astounding thanks to a copious rainfall; courtesy of which the boys got a nice opportunity to ogle at girls.


And when you get a movie like 'Inception' to watch, you ought to ask someone to pinch you. When you have a cast like this-i mean Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Lewitt, Michael Caine, or Marion Cotillard, the movie just keeps going flawlessly.


Christopher Nolan keeps improving himself, with even more complex and multilayer script like this.And i thought Memento was hard to reach by most of the viewers, but no. Inception will keep you mesmerized and captivated by the genius, that's hidden behind it. And not just directors and screenwriters (or with other words-Nolan), but with acting and sound-and effects and editing as well.


Gosh! I just can't stop praising the movie. But I would say before your life ends, do yourself a favor by experiencing this exceptionally lucid classic created by Nolan!


Well, it had been a stupendous day so far. All credits to Steve for providing us second-half off today. What to do next now?

"Lets go for go-karting", suggested Naren. "Yeah and then dinner at chaupati", added Samir.

Those who dont know, Chaupati is a hillside garden restaurant providing an awesomeview of Pune-Mumbai highway.

"Yeah and then a long drive. Lets have a night out", said Kabir. "Seems like a nice plan. What u say Sonika?", Rahul returned from the loo.

"What a great ass!!!" said Sonika uninformed of all the discussions and plannings going on. "What!!!" shouted Shikha and Naren. "What? What happened?" inquired Sonika.

"What happened!!! What Happened!!!! You giving such coarse comments about the ass of a boy and asking what happened. M surprised, infact I am flabbergasted. Its so mortifying." replied Naren.

"Whats so surprising and what you said mortifying about this. You guys can say anything about girls and we cant" argues Sonika.

"But it doesn't suit us. We are girls.", interrupted Shikha.

"So what. These boys always see us like sex objects and if we say anything, they start this boy - girl, manners and all rubbish. If they can say such things about us, we also can. On one hand they say that boys and girls are equal. We are against sex discrimination but from inside they all are male chauvinist pigs".

Well, she called us pigs on our face but still we didn't have any nerves to bounce back on her. Coz all of us knew that if not all but most of what she said was absolutely correct.

The world present the women as sex objects, as if a woman's prowess can only be expressed when she poses nude. Even studies proves that Men are more likely to view women like that.

Researchers used brain scans to show that when straight men looked at pictures of women in bikinis, areas of the brain that normally light up in anticipation of using tools, like spanners and screwdrivers, were activated.

And that was what Sonika said. At that moment, I realized how tough is for a woman to survive in this world. We often say that man and woman are equal but from inside every male believes that men are superior than their counterpart.

All this is very sadistic but true.

18 comments:

  1. one of amazing post of ur blog..awsum use of words..super like :)

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  2. very well expressed... *applauses*!!!

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  3. You've brought up a very important topic in this blog and its really great to see that men have started realizing that its unfair to consider themselves superior to women.

    But I don't think only men considering women equal would be enough, it is not the only problem. There are many women who are not ready to fight for equality and are easily convinced about superiority of the other gender, always ready with the excuse - "But it doesn't suit us. We are girls.", as the character Shikha in your blog. First women need to stop undermining themselves, only after that does the call for equality makes sense.

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  4. @Rahela ... thnx
    @ the explorer .... Yes, the effort is to be made on both the sides but slightly more on the men side.

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  5. Great sachin, u highlighted ur friend's point beautifully... thumbs up!!!

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  6. thnx Nidhi .... I just tried to express her feelings ....

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  7. Good post.
    @The explorer : Good point.
    But theres another point...
    Women other than undermining themselves also feel that they should be treated specially in general... (Ohh i can hear shouts and feels stones thrown at me..)
    On one side they say they want equality, but on the other they want reservations.. (agreed that they need more qualifications etc to stand on the same stage in the current world and the reason for that is the same chauvinistic view of the society at present.)
    Agreed.
    But.
    Theres still these things (there are exceptions i know, but this is kind of a rule):
    - Girlfriend never pays in restaurants, etc.
    - Theres fees subsidies etc for girls at schools and even for an entrance form for colleges (not subsidies based on economic factors). A very poor boy still has to pay more at school than a rich girl.
    - Political reservations for women and similar reservations in all govt jobs.
    - and there are other examples.

    What i wanted to say wasn't that the point raised in this blog is wrong. Rather its absolutely right. But only to a certain extent.
    Women expect them to be treated equally but in the next sentence they expect special treatment.

    I could rather go in detail.. or write an essay. But well this much should be enough for a comment right...???

    -- Mohan Sandeep.

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  8. well Sandeep, what you said is absolutely correct but the point I am trying to make here is how a man sees a woman is wrong. The status of woman in society is a different topic.

    Still you raised a nice point. Well said. I'll try to gather some data on that and write a post. Thanks.

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  9. Beautifully written post, I must confess, and I as much as I hate to admit it, its true that women are belittled in the society- always! And you'd be surprised I'm saying this, but I blame the fairer sex equally! I mean on the one hand we claim we want equal rights and on the other, we expect men to offer their seats to us in the bus!
    (PS - Not too happy with the 'ogle at girls' part ... lol)

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  10. @Appy... thnx...
    As I said earlier, I do agree that the effort is to be made on both the sides...

    And about the ogling part .... well, that is something we boys are really good at.... lolzzz...

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  11. very well written .... good to see that you write a post about the status of woman ...

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  12. great post...brought up a very interesting topic on which a lot can be said...nice read...

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