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It's ME on Both Sides!

Asra Nadeem January 24, 2008

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#1 Posted by Faisal.K on January 24, 2008 11:48:01 pm
I hope for your sake that is a fictional piece.
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#2 Posted by asranadeem on January 24, 2008 11:51:37 pm
It is fiction. However, 'situation' is pretty much the same for everyone.
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#3 Posted by rf786 on January 25, 2008 2:29:31 am
Asra

Good, very good. Thanks

By the way, what does phohar mean? In our understanding its used for someone who is disorganized, careless.
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#4 Posted by asranadeem on January 25, 2008 2:45:28 am
rf786: Thank you for the appreciation. 'Phohar' means someone who lacks skills for household tasks but is also used for people who are disorganized and careless.
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#5 Posted by vengatramanan on January 25, 2008 3:34:22 am
This won't happen 10-15 years from now. Atleast in India, the male-female ratio has skewed. Now the girls have become the deciding authorities.
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#6 Posted by asranadeem on January 25, 2008 3:58:56 am
vengatramanan: It is never about having the power to decide. It's usually about how a woman is objectified and exploited like a commodity. It hasn't changed in centuries and I think it would take a couple of lives to get it right. It's a global issue.
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#7 Posted by zeemax on January 25, 2008 4:17:47 am
Author,

And could you kindly tell us as to how and through what measures women would 'not' be objectified? I mean ... would a choice in marriage be enough or something else do you think?

Thanks.
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#8 Posted by vengatramanan on January 25, 2008 9:06:27 am
asranadeem,

Don't you think that women like being commodities and they tirelessly perpetuate the idea? Perhaps that's where their strength lie, to mindboggle their opposite sex.

Are men not objectified by women?

Gigolo's are doing well.

Indian girls look for suave,tall

1 s/w engineers 2 doctors

Indian girls wouldn't do due diligence on the boy's values. I don't think this can just be an Indian phenomenon.

I believe either you are intellectualizing your own hallucinations or just propogating something the feminists have been doing or you are one among those whose perceiving abilities have gone for a toss.

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#9 Posted by vengatramanan on January 25, 2008 9:07:22 am
asranadeem,

Don't you think that women like being commodities and they tirelessly perpetuate the idea? Perhaps that's where their strength lie, to mindboggle their opposite sex.

Are men not objectified by women?

Gigolo's are doing well.

Indian girls look for suave,tall

1 s/w engineers 2 doctors

Indian girls wouldn't do due diligence on the boy's values. I don't think this can just be an Indian phenomenon.

I believe either you are intellectualizing your own hallucinations or just propogating something the feminists have been doing or you are one among those whose perceiving abilities have gone for a toss.

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#10 Posted by nb on January 25, 2008 6:02:32 pm
Asra, this is really heartfelt. I liked the twist; you make us think she is preparing for a life as a tawaif, instead it is marriage, and you seem to be asking, is there that much of a difference?
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#11 Posted by ahmedmadani on January 25, 2008 6:11:59 pm
Why this article is printed ?
Please ban author and dirty subjects, no washing og dirty laundry on this site ,as most are good normal people here. There are lots of had things going but giving space in such places more problems are created. We can not make people to follow moral path but ( we always hear whining by sex sinners they do for money) suppressing and not publishing vices is best way to control. we can not eradicate.
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#12 Posted by ahmedmadani on January 25, 2008 6:12:37 pm
I did not even read it, just key words alarmed me.
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#13 Posted by ahmedmadani on January 25, 2008 6:14:37 pm
Strange thing Masadi is banned for telling truth but filth is appreciated.
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#14 Posted by ijaz_gul on January 25, 2008 7:58:01 pm
cheers
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#15 Posted by zeemax on January 25, 2008 9:57:45 pm
I will provide my own answer to #7 so the author does have to think too hard.

Unless God were to flatten a woman's hull fore and aft, and makes some design changes in the plumbing in the hold to make it purely functional rather than ornamental , women will always be objectified.
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#16 Posted by nb on January 25, 2008 10:03:20 pm
Zeemax, it is all functional, is it not? It's our hormones that make it look ornamental.
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