Rant 1: Recently met lot of old friends from college over a happy occasion. First thing which came to my mind each time I bumped into a familiar face was joy which was reciprocated too. The seed of this rant was planted when a long lost dear friend said that he does not feel old at all and he feels like some event we did together 15 years ago happened yesterday. And generally spoke about how it is important to feel young to be young (this happened over drinks when we met again in the night). I know one angle of this is also that when old friends meet then they pick up where they left off and such. But, obviously there was another thought which came to me 'ya right! you are a man!'. As a woman how I am reminded that I am getting older each year, going past my prime, my face is showing signs of age, my hair is greying and thinning - tips about what I should be doing, how to tighten my skin from now onwards, how to do this and how to do that... No wonder I do not feel 22 any more. Though patriarchal male privilege is done to death in various circles, I feel the feminist female disenfranchisement.
Rant 2: What is with all these soaps on the T.V revolving around romances which pan out agonisingly over years (keep glancing while I am at mom's and other places where I do not have control over the remote). This new trend of romance is evident in all the channels. Another trend is also majority of them are romances between 'married by elders in the same community' couples and either husband does not love his wife because he had a girl friend before or wife does not love her husband because she has misunderstood him some how or some thing equally inane. This new age sanskaari bahu can facebook, handle smart phones and all other things. But, she will be busy getting into one after the other tangles in her in laws place. In between there will be slow motion scenes of these couples grazing their finger tips to romantic music!!
Rant 3: Not being able to get a home which is decent to rent due to ever shrinking living space, ever expanding city, pushing of fixed income people to periphery which is an implicitly agreed phenomenon of a capitalistic society.
Rant 4 till infinity: Along with these add all other triggers of being judged, being muted, passive aggressified, labelled and so on. Now that compiles today's rants.
Rant 2: What is with all these soaps on the T.V revolving around romances which pan out agonisingly over years (keep glancing while I am at mom's and other places where I do not have control over the remote). This new trend of romance is evident in all the channels. Another trend is also majority of them are romances between 'married by elders in the same community' couples and either husband does not love his wife because he had a girl friend before or wife does not love her husband because she has misunderstood him some how or some thing equally inane. This new age sanskaari bahu can facebook, handle smart phones and all other things. But, she will be busy getting into one after the other tangles in her in laws place. In between there will be slow motion scenes of these couples grazing their finger tips to romantic music!!
Rant 3: Not being able to get a home which is decent to rent due to ever shrinking living space, ever expanding city, pushing of fixed income people to periphery which is an implicitly agreed phenomenon of a capitalistic society.
Rant 4 till infinity: Along with these add all other triggers of being judged, being muted, passive aggressified, labelled and so on. Now that compiles today's rants.
