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I pledge to remain a maiden. Not because I want to die a virgin. But, I dread to kill myself strangling on wedlock. Marriage, I feel, is like the advertisement of fairness cream – it makes you purchase with high expectations; but once you have used them, you are never satisfied.
7. Last but not least. Never would one be able to express openly what is in her mind. Repression and suppression would be the best defense mechanisms to adopt if you ever dream to be an ideal wife. Happy married life to all spinsters!!!!
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For those who claim they are happily married: I seldom find people (especially women) who are happy married. Now don’t think this is another insane feminist penning down plagiarized thoughts. Let me cut the crap and cite the reasons..
1. When proposals pop in like mushrooms in a soggy forest, girls are expected to behave (rather act) matured. A girl who looks like a 12th grade child is made to do everything under the sun to make her look hot. Alas! Seldom do people realize that one can’t replace mangos on a mango tree with jack fruits, no matter how hard you try. In similar way, overweighed girls are expected to turn lean overnight.
Above all, till then you were expected to be like a prayer recited in a church, known to all like as holy and divine. On contrary, when a guy comes to check you out, you are expected to send radio waves and turn him to your frequency. One has to sit beside ‘the man of the day’ and serve tea like a geisha, flash an innocent smile, answer a few questions and touch the forehead half a dozen times like you have never sat face to face with a full grown man. The session will end with a cheesy smile and an ogle.
2. Later you will have to stand like a manikin amidst a score of obese aunts, whose waterbed-like bodies look as if it may explode anytime, dressed in glittering sarees that resemble pyrotechnics during diwali. They would poke fun at your tummy or adjudge your boobs sag, while they could easily feed a five year old standing erect. They would compare you with their salad days like drawing a column of differences between Mallika Sherawath and Helen. Towards the end, the verdict would be not bad, neither good.
Next they would slip on to educational qualifications and every uncle would have a point to make. They would do this artistically by sipping the coffee and emptying the snack racks. Towards the end, a statistical analysis would infer that the girl is lucky to have this boy.
3. After all the above mentioned rituals, you will get to visit a new house which would be tagged as yours (even if you dislike it). It’s like getting a tumbler free with a tea dust packet – but here, you are not allowed to touch the glass. Everything is new from the aluminum pressure cooker to the nude man lying beside you, who would be acting so strange and giving an impression that he is researching to find a counter theory for relativity.
Your maiden name is cut off, family name replaced. It’s like learning alphabets from the beginning and still all say it’s normal.
4. Marriage will turn you from a tigress to a caged tigress. Your husband would be like a CFL tube lit when he praises his colleague’s pink t-shirt; but would never give nod of approval even when you are unanimously declared as hot by all. Your favourite outfit would lose its place in your wardrobe and it would be piled with drab sarees.
You, who may be the best performer at your workplace, are expected to excel in bhindi fry (lady's finger) making. In spite of turning the mid night oil for years and securing laurels, Phds, and finally a job, you will be expected to keep an account of what you spend (from your own salary) and report it to your husband who wouldn’t even have a clue of how much he spends on cigarettes per day.
5. Your husband may be a drunkard who drinks all through. If at all in the intimate moments after love making (a rarity), you would reveal a story where you enjoyed a chilled beer with your buddies at college or you dared to take a sip from his drink when he was sleeping. The holy man would then give a shocked look at you like you have a hallow around your head. The very next day, a bunch of relatives would arrive and start a detailed study on your character and past. The inference of the study along with some cooked masala would be the spice for all upcoming functions and tea parties in the next couple of months, or may be years!!!
6. Later when you set pace with your married, life and added luxuries, you would be marked in red if you initiate a play. Even when you are warm inside for the carnal desire, never dare to hint it through gestures. Mind you, you may land in trouble. Your expected role is to be a play doll and express joy even when your mate ends the match abruptly and turns over snoring like a pig.
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Good start Georgeya. Keep writing!
ReplyDeleteIt's an interesting perspective, one I'm inclined to agree with.
ReplyDeleteI would like to congratulate for openly lashing out at some of the social evil. But, I must say that these are the problems of typical middle class girl married to cynical middle class guy. Middle class I meant the way they think.
ReplyDeleteBeing a guy, a representative of the emerging broadminded Indians. It's really difficult to digest some of the allegations you have put forward.
With the changing social scenarios and social set up, I can see and sense a lot of changes in the contemporary family set up. I would like to give a small piece of advice.
Firstly, I would like you to come out of your reluctance to change. Then, your reluctance to accept responsibilities. If you can't implement the above things in your life, Then, the Phds and the salaries that your would be earning would be of no use. It's better if we go back to forest and live an uncivilized life. I know, we all agree that the smallest unit of a society is the family and without which there can be no civilization.
sorry for the late reply .I never expressed my disapproval of family setup .All I wanted to point out is that it is now very hard for a typical middle class girl to get into such a setup happy .My target was the process of forming a family and it never meant to underestimate the power of family which as you said is the smallest yet most important unit of a society .
ReplyDeleteMoreover I feel now a days it is more easy to be safe in a forest with uncivilized people than in a society with civilized people .
congrats georgeya,but this shows only one aspect....
ReplyDeleteIn an arranged marriage as a woman is prepared, the man also have to make that set up mentally physically and economically .He too will have expectations like her, later it may collapse into pieces,after the marriage.Might be because of the girls past, present or future or character, or her family.Its not only the females are the sufferers , even it does happen with the males.... As u said about the cigarettes,there are wives(jobless house wives)who purchases in and out for them and their kids but not bothered to buy a pen also for their husbands who earns for them. So its just 7 reasons u to remain a maiden, but there are still more reasons for many man to remain a bachelor. Marriage is a natural setup (in d present world), should be happened in every family(civilized)for their existence whether individually or socially. so to change all this i should say tat the setup called arranged marriage (which is in favour of religion, caste,economy,etc etc ) has to be changed..Since a live in relationship is not practically possible in our society,we have to think about another alternative, which will be better than an arranged marriage, for which a girl or a man should not be trying to forget their like and dislike, nor struggling for their external appearance to get a life partner.
Thanks madhav for reading my thoughts.You have helprd me to think in a new perspective,till second I belived that it was a man's world but now I reliaze it not always so but still the major doom is faced by the women
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