Watching ‘Mad Men’ brings up a thought that’s often just lying below the surface:
Why DO we put up with men?
They’re horrible.
Update 2023: He was still abusing me, after the proposal. While my family was out gratefully distributing wedding invitations after years of shaming for my singledom, his family was pressuring him to attack me because ‘waise to hum ladkewale hain’. Men like this are monsters but the families, they are the real monster makers.
Sometimes we are on the same train. I have a ‘subject-to-last-minute-change’ schedule. Maybe so does she. Is she a student? Or a working professional? She dresses like a teenager would, if she had the acquired sense of style that someone at least a decade older would have. Her face is…
You can be grateful for the beauty & also upset at the ugliness. The things that inspire these co-exist & sometimes in the same place. Why would the feelings that these bring up, not be able to occupy the same mind simultaneously? Human beings can feel more than one feeling…
Earlier this month, I tweeted the following: “More and more it becomes obvious that testosterone and machismo are the biggest problems this world faces. Can we just ban men?” The reactions I received proved my point and make me firmly NOT apologetic for it. Personal attacks. Rape threats. Attack threats….
Somebody needs to be around to kill the cockroaches no?