OK so its been the statement of the day to write a reply to this blog post concerning all things Delhi and while the blog post was funny and I did agree on some points, I do not agree with a lot of things she put up, so here goes nothing...
For all of you who need to know, I was born in Calcutta and spent a good part of my life in Cochin, Chennai Vishakapatnam, Mumbai and Delhi. So this is my take as a person whose been pretty much all over the country, oh and I'm a girl, just in case some people accuse me of sexism or whatever. So when talking about the topic of Delhi men, I have to be pretty straight forward and say, in my two years there I have actually met very few guys who don't own a sexist bone in their body. But I would like to point out that the rest of India has a pretty good population of said men as well, in fact the most sexist comment I ever got to my face was from a guy from Mumbai and yeah for all my women readers out there I nearly cut his balls off... . I remember the dread of using public transport in that city, its not that they just stare at you but they actually try to touch you *cringes* and my fellow Delhi girls will agree with me on this point that a good proportion of the men there just don't know their boundaries. I guess one of the reasons could be that Delhi has never been as crowded as Mumbai, its pretty desolate in some areas, I mean when was the last time we found a desolate location in Mumbai? The city where people suddenly gain the ability to multiply like an amoeba, forget a desolate place, its difficult to find a desolate square metre here.
I'd also like to point out that in the North west they're also far more 'son' obsessed that many areas elsewhere, last time I checked Haryana and Punjab had the most fucked up sex ratios in this country and judging from what I've seen, boys out there are told since the day they were born that they were 'superior' somehow even if their brains may never become bigger than a molecule. So on the men, I'll more or less agree but I'll also say that I can take a punch at any guy from any state in this country and make fun of something that is unique to them.
My biggest objection was this blogger's take on the women, I'm sorry but the ones that I know are nothing like the ones she took a dig at. I've known them to be not only beautiful but also some of the most strong minded individuals I've ever managed to come across. Not to say that such women don't exist in the South, they do. Whether a person is strong minded or not depends totally on the individual and not what region they come from. Let's not forget our own Rani of Jhansi was a Northerner and she made the British men wet their beds at some point.
On the issue that the North is racist, ok this honestly made me laugh, I mean of course they're racist but so is the South. They're equally racist down there if not more. I remember when my family moved to Chennai, our new neighbour before evening saying a nice 'hello!', asked us what caste we were, when my dad said Brahmin, he was all smiles but the minute my father said Bengali, he turned the other way with a sour look on his face. So I don't think its fair to call the North wholly racist just cause some of them have the IQ of a goat.
And not only that, but the men in Chennai really ogle at you if you're a little lighter than what they're used to, this is followed by making sexy poses like Rajnikanth. Also need I go into how women are objectified in the film industry there? See its pretty much everywhere.
When it comes to intelligence, really you can't generalize and say only the south has contributed to the IITs or whatever, I know plenty of people from Delhi and elsewhere up there who got into not only the hallowed IITs but even Yale and Stanford. Just cause you're born in a particular region doesn't mean you'll be deemed intelligent.
Ok so I'm done with this reply, I hope I made myself clear in the fact even if I do agree on some points with her, I really wouldn't want to stereotype a whole half of this country just cause of a few morons who inhabit this earth.
For all of you who need to know, I was born in Calcutta and spent a good part of my life in Cochin, Chennai Vishakapatnam, Mumbai and Delhi. So this is my take as a person whose been pretty much all over the country, oh and I'm a girl, just in case some people accuse me of sexism or whatever. So when talking about the topic of Delhi men, I have to be pretty straight forward and say, in my two years there I have actually met very few guys who don't own a sexist bone in their body. But I would like to point out that the rest of India has a pretty good population of said men as well, in fact the most sexist comment I ever got to my face was from a guy from Mumbai and yeah for all my women readers out there I nearly cut his balls off... . I remember the dread of using public transport in that city, its not that they just stare at you but they actually try to touch you *cringes* and my fellow Delhi girls will agree with me on this point that a good proportion of the men there just don't know their boundaries. I guess one of the reasons could be that Delhi has never been as crowded as Mumbai, its pretty desolate in some areas, I mean when was the last time we found a desolate location in Mumbai? The city where people suddenly gain the ability to multiply like an amoeba, forget a desolate place, its difficult to find a desolate square metre here.
I'd also like to point out that in the North west they're also far more 'son' obsessed that many areas elsewhere, last time I checked Haryana and Punjab had the most fucked up sex ratios in this country and judging from what I've seen, boys out there are told since the day they were born that they were 'superior' somehow even if their brains may never become bigger than a molecule. So on the men, I'll more or less agree but I'll also say that I can take a punch at any guy from any state in this country and make fun of something that is unique to them.
My biggest objection was this blogger's take on the women, I'm sorry but the ones that I know are nothing like the ones she took a dig at. I've known them to be not only beautiful but also some of the most strong minded individuals I've ever managed to come across. Not to say that such women don't exist in the South, they do. Whether a person is strong minded or not depends totally on the individual and not what region they come from. Let's not forget our own Rani of Jhansi was a Northerner and she made the British men wet their beds at some point.
On the issue that the North is racist, ok this honestly made me laugh, I mean of course they're racist but so is the South. They're equally racist down there if not more. I remember when my family moved to Chennai, our new neighbour before evening saying a nice 'hello!', asked us what caste we were, when my dad said Brahmin, he was all smiles but the minute my father said Bengali, he turned the other way with a sour look on his face. So I don't think its fair to call the North wholly racist just cause some of them have the IQ of a goat.
And not only that, but the men in Chennai really ogle at you if you're a little lighter than what they're used to, this is followed by making sexy poses like Rajnikanth. Also need I go into how women are objectified in the film industry there? See its pretty much everywhere.
When it comes to intelligence, really you can't generalize and say only the south has contributed to the IITs or whatever, I know plenty of people from Delhi and elsewhere up there who got into not only the hallowed IITs but even Yale and Stanford. Just cause you're born in a particular region doesn't mean you'll be deemed intelligent.
Ok so I'm done with this reply, I hope I made myself clear in the fact even if I do agree on some points with her, I really wouldn't want to stereotype a whole half of this country just cause of a few morons who inhabit this earth.