Just two days ago, the Government of India criminalised gay sex. I can't bring myself to understand why. It's shameful and despicable.
Firstly, I don't know how the Government has the right to decide what we do with our personal life. As long as we are not harming someone physically or emotionally, there shouldn't be a problem, right? And from when did we start letting someone else dictate and tell us who we can or can not love? It's crazy. We should be sanctioned to love whoever we want, elope whoever we want, irrespective of the gender. As long as those two people are nonchalant about it, shouldn't everyone else be indifferent as well?
Yes, agreed that India is a conservative country with its own sacred culture and rules. In a country where the mentality of women staying at home still exists (in some places), where people sum up a boy hanging out with a girl as dating and where people are still not comfortable with PDA, discomfort towards homosexuality is understandable, and pretty much reasonable as well. But the justice's perception of gay marriage as a crime? That isn't. Calling gay sex a "criminal offense" is preposterous. Ten year imprisonment, though, is taking it to a whole new level. Wasn't the court designed to help those who are struggling for rights? A verdict such as this to be announced just a day after Human Rights Day; I'm loving the irony.
Another thing that I was thinking about was how we have separated the society into two groups - transgendered and straight. Is this a subtle approach at making the non-straight group of people feel insecure by implying they are bent? Right now, it's homosexuality, tomorrow it could be mutants and before you know it, aliens will be popping up maybe not from space, but the center of the earth itself. Then what?
I think what we are afraid of, is being different. It scares the daylights out of us when something beyond the understanding of an average human being takes place. Like gay sex which certainly, is not "normal". I think, it's all about perception. Something the Indian Government, which is stuck in the 1800's, still has to get right.
Kanksha :)
Firstly, I don't know how the Government has the right to decide what we do with our personal life. As long as we are not harming someone physically or emotionally, there shouldn't be a problem, right? And from when did we start letting someone else dictate and tell us who we can or can not love? It's crazy. We should be sanctioned to love whoever we want, elope whoever we want, irrespective of the gender. As long as those two people are nonchalant about it, shouldn't everyone else be indifferent as well?
Yes, agreed that India is a conservative country with its own sacred culture and rules. In a country where the mentality of women staying at home still exists (in some places), where people sum up a boy hanging out with a girl as dating and where people are still not comfortable with PDA, discomfort towards homosexuality is understandable, and pretty much reasonable as well. But the justice's perception of gay marriage as a crime? That isn't. Calling gay sex a "criminal offense" is preposterous. Ten year imprisonment, though, is taking it to a whole new level. Wasn't the court designed to help those who are struggling for rights? A verdict such as this to be announced just a day after Human Rights Day; I'm loving the irony.
Another thing that I was thinking about was how we have separated the society into two groups - transgendered and straight. Is this a subtle approach at making the non-straight group of people feel insecure by implying they are bent? Right now, it's homosexuality, tomorrow it could be mutants and before you know it, aliens will be popping up maybe not from space, but the center of the earth itself. Then what?
I think what we are afraid of, is being different. It scares the daylights out of us when something beyond the understanding of an average human being takes place. Like gay sex which certainly, is not "normal". I think, it's all about perception. Something the Indian Government, which is stuck in the 1800's, still has to get right.
Kanksha :)
You've been writing this since school ?!
ReplyDeleteThis is very powerful and honestly back then pretty much ahead of its time. I wish I'd known you then.
Hey I just saw your comment! That is really nice of you to say, I'm sorry I never took the initiative to get to know you either!
DeleteI began the blog after school ended though :P