How Typical!

My guy friends very often wonder why i tend to have such radical opinions about guys. Some of my friends also take offense at the fact that i don't give many a 'chance', I generalize, I am biased and so on. Maybe this will help them understand why I feel the guys who do the following are the rule and NOT the exceptions.

Your neighborhood help - chauffeur, presswallah, jamadaar etc. will check you out

While you drive, some car will try to overtake you, drive rashly, just to get ahead and then feel triumphant about it.

At any point, if your car does stop while driving, which can happen to the best of us, it is because 'you are a girl' and not because maybe you did not maintain the speed-gear balance.

At all traffic signals, and I mean ALL, the cars adjacent to you will stare inside. Yes I am a girl driving. Please get used to it.

You most definitely have got followed. At least once.

You will get random 'Wana be friends lines' everywhere..resturants, offices, social networking sites. You name it.

Your ex-boyfriend will find innovative ways to make u feel pathetic about yourself. And u feel pathetic also. Mission accomplished.

Some 'friends' are actually crushing you. Hence the sudden 'understanding'.

Your colleagues will openly stare/gaze/comment. You are not supposed to raise an alarm unless something drastic happens. Common thought 'Kuch kia kya usne?' Should i wait for the pervert to go to the extent of touching me

Little 'kids' at the signal, who are young enough to be your nephews, will call you dirty names and run away.

Men old enough to be your fathers/grandfathers will proposition to you..at conferences, overseas visits, you name it.

Loser-ish guys who wish to go out with you, will try everything, but ask you out. If you are so interested, why dont you gather enough balls to ask someone out?

While travelling by public transport, sudden crowds will give them a liberty to feel you up, pinch your bottom, pinch your bossom.

There is always an incestuous experience during childhood, which involved someone whom you trusted - a close relative, a trusted friend.

And those are some of the reasons why guys consider women as 'bhaav khaoing', rude, snobbish and like me..man-haters.

Statutory Warning (girls only): Any glance, stare, chance meeting of eyes, conversation, exchange of mails, contact details and something as innocuous as a pleasant expression will be misconstrued as an expression of interest, unless stated otherwise explicitly. Explicit statements can range from resorting to physical violence to blatant ignore. In maximum cases, the assailant will not acknowledge your attempts to discourage interest.

feminism..is it?

Firstly i apologise for not writing in ages..as u all kno..im the procrastination queen..and as my friend very nicely jst reminded me..i am laptop less..meh chori k laptop se likh rahi hun'.
Been meaning to write this 4 a long time..happened sumwhr at the beginning of d session.

There ws a discussion in our law lecture about the not-so-recent mandate passed by the Karnataka Government regarding banning women from working late. As expected a heated discussion ensued..considering moi, a self confessed feminist was a member. (Now as are most engg and MBA student bodies, ours is a male dominated strength..at least in mere numerals).
Our law faculty is a lady..an opinionated one at that..my best friend feels females always have sumtin against other hot females (the best friend is a guy of course).

Not that i expected much, but none of the able-minded males sitting out there seemed to think the mandate was preposterous. That was not surprising, what amazd me was, neither did most of the able-minded females out there. And mind you, this was a discussion in an MBA school in Mumbai.

The argument provided were, the obtuse 'let's accept it, women ARE weaker than men'..and 'what will u do if u get raped?' and this one tops the list..there was an analogy drawn between this mandate and the laws for homicide. The argument so given was, the state is doing its job in protecting US( yeah this means it was a lady in the classroom who pointed it out) and just like state prevents homicide, it is preventing rape. In our liberal approach, it never crosses aur mind to curtail the culprit.
Now, the point I am trying to make is, how can a state prevent someone from going out at night? Just as every woman is a potential rape victim, every man is a potential rapist. Or is it not?
My viewpoints may seem feminist..but it seems only fair to impose an equal ban.
I have a question, if my organization wants me to handle an emergency which let's say occurs late at night. Considering the ban, i cannot move out. Now, why will an organization want to employ a lady in a responsible position? I have to compromise my responsibility and freedom because a jerk on the road is inept in controlling his hormones?

The ultimate argument of course was, how many cases do you hear of males getting raped as compared to females? This precisely proves my point..who is a danger on the streets late at night..males or females? This brings us back to the fundamental question..does our law curtail the culprit or the victim?