How Stereotypes Are Formed & Maintained!
I happened to read this shocker of a post in the ‘Sunday Supplement’ with a Tamil Newspaper today!
It is titled,
Aged-Unmarried Actresses Getting Ready for ‘Marriage!’
And it goes like this –
“Among the senior actresses who are living as ‘bachelors’ without getting married all these years, Actress Anushka, aged 39, has resolved to get married this year!”
“Similarly, Nayantara, even as she is now 36 years of age, has been dating Director Vignesh Sivan for more than five years. News is that, this year she would ‘become’ his ‘wife’!”
“Following her, Trisha, now 38, has also gotten herself ready for marriage! Having already faced two ‘broken’ prospective marriage proposals, she has resolved to somehow get married this year!”
“Grapevine has it that, she has already okayed a groom who will not put obstacles on her cinematic ambitions, and that she has resolved to have the ‘wedding drums’ beating for her, even before she turns 39!”
And the last line is the height of contempt and scorn!
“As it is, it’s like the story of an old lady being made to sit on the wedding stage!!!”
Well, it’s time we stood up against these stereotyped diatribes, victimizing onslaughts, jibes and taunts on a person and the choices they make for themselves in their sweet lives!
It undermines the very ethics and dignity of humanity!
I personally feel that, nobody on planet earth, has any right whatsoever, to pass judgments on a person’s rightful choices!
Whether they’re single or not, married or not, that’s their problem!
Just because you believe in some cliched conformities, doesn’t mean that you should enforce your blinkered, jaundiced, age-old conformities on another!
If you can’t admire, respect and congratulate a person for living their lives their own ways, celebrating their lives in the way they desire it to be, then at least do this thing gracefully –
[With all due respects to the newspaper]
JUST SHUT UP!
When a person wants to celebrate their life in their own terms, in their own sweet ways, who on earth gave you the authority to pass a verdict or pass your stupid judgment on their choices that they’ve made for themselves in their sweet lives?
When you should have admired them, venerated them, celebrated them and extolled them for being who they are, and for living life as they will it to be, in their own terms!
You don’t have any right whatsoever to denigrate, defame and pass disparaging remarks on a person’s individual choices, and freedom to choose what they want to be, at any point of time in their lives!
'மாதர் தம்மை இழிவு செய்யும் மடமையைக் கொளுத்துவோம்' sang the legendary poet Subramania Bharati!
It means, “Let’s burn down the stupidity that speaks derogatory of women!”
It’s high time we put to practice the legend’s clarion call!
And right away at that! ✨
You may also want to read our past post here on the topic,
“The most awkward question that you could ever ask a person” HERE!
Well put! Someone needed to say that! It is a gross violation of decency that such articles are even allowed to be published and as you say, these jaundiced, rotten stereotypes need to go.
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