I don’t understand why being gay is so funny for Indian audience. Honestly, Indians laugh/snigger whenever someone mentions or accuses of someone else (especially a guy) being gay (in a movie or in reality). What is so funny about someone being gay? Please do share the joke..
I don’t understand why writing about gay and gay rights such a taboo? I have been advised by my friends that I should not write about the subject so often. If you ask them why, they simply shrug and say that people might get wrong ideas but they never explains what wrong ideas. (Any of you have any of these aforementioned “wrong ideas”, please let me know. I won’t publish your comment but at least I would know. I am really curious).
Anyone?
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It's because of insecurity. People distance themselves from the stigma of being seen as 'gay' through ridicule and condescending humor. Ultimately, making fun of homosexual behavior is only funny because it makes people feel socially distances from that group. The same reason that unpopular kids get made fun of in school.
ReplyDeleteIs it still a taboo? I don't think so...
ReplyDeleteGreat blog!
Cheers :D
it is simple, there are lot of hot and serious issues to discussed and debated like genocide in kashmir by the great army of your great nation. These are futile issues, any body is gay or lesbian, doesn't matter. People r not used to it that is y it looks funny to them but in coming decade people won't feel like that. You should write how communistic tendencies have become elitetistic in this pseudo-secular n antidemocratic country?
ReplyDeleteYou should write about the Imperialistic and colonial tendencies of your great nation instead ............ !! Please channelize your creative tendencies to revolutionize your nation not to harp on a non-issue.
Lol...that's called homophobia --- the fear of being gay. Funnily enough, people think that by advocating for gay rights you must be gay yourself...so the best way to deal with it is to be homophobic --- either by laughing at anything related to homosexuality to physically assaulting anyone who is homosexual. Don't listen to the ones that say you are giving people the "wrong idea". Continue blogging the way you are...
ReplyDeleteHmmm... I guess people are feed with such notion right from there childhood. It is a new thing for Indian society. Two generation hence, the uneasiness wont be there!
ReplyDeleteWe are scared of things that are unfamiliar (or contradictory to our personal/societal definition of 'normal'). Even in today's world, being gay does belong to that category. Talk to someone who has had a close friend who is openly gay, they won't find it funny. But the rest 99% of the population will. As someone mentioned, maybe in a few generations it will be included in the definition of 'normal'.
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