We are Indians, we don't have sex.
I was horrified when I read the front page headline of Hindustan Times on April 24th, 'Sex education class stayed again after MLAs protest'.
"Do you want sex guru or love guru in the classroom?" asked Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) legislator Nawab Malik.
What? How the hell does providing sex education correlate to having sex? When will these moronic politicians understand that sex education leads to safe sex. Since when is sex education equated by a sex or a love guru, are we forgetting the 'education' part of it? Sex ed doesn't teach you how to screw in 101 positions, rather they debunk your myths about sex, what's safe, what's not and what are the consequences if you do not practice safe sex.
Then there were 4 other quotes from our elected legislators who all shuddered at the thought of their kids learning about 'it' from professionals in school. Thye'd like their kids to learn the same way as they did, from blue films, smutty magazines and off course the internet now.
If you think, that one comment horrified you, listen to some more:
"In Europe the fertility is low, hence (the need for) sex education. Here, we have complaints of sexual harassment daily. What will this sex education lead to among our youngsters? Do you want a sex guru or a love guru in the classrooms?"
NAWAB MALIK, NCP MLA from Kurla
Sam's comment: Dude, have you met those Swedish girls? Or have you read those Durex surveys? Europeans are high up on s-e-x, the only difference is they are educated and know what a pain raising too many kids is, not to mention expensive.
"We need to first examine the education minister's brain. He always comes up with the most ridiculous suggestions. We will close all schools if this subject is made compulsory. It hits at the very roots of our culture."
RAMDAS KADAM, (Shiv Sena), the Leader of Opposition, represents Khed constituency in Konkan
Sam's comment: There there, sir, Mr. Leader of Opposition, let's not get personal and talk about brain. Let's restrict it to the other brain, shall we? How is any education that reduces the incidence of Aids, pregnancy and promotes safe sex ridiculous?
"It goes against all our religions. We don't want to spoil our children. There is a lobby that wants to push Westernised concepts and take us away from our traditions. Sex education is a part of this conspiracy."
MANGAL PRABHAT LODHA, BJP MLA from Malabar Hill
Sam's comment: Uhh, Sir, which religion do you follow? The last time I read, not too many religions spoke about sex, let alone sex education. Also, it takes a lot of people having a lot of unprotected sex to produce 1.1 billion beings. It ain't chance that got us to be the second most populous nation on Earth no? Shucks, if sex is a westernized concept, I guess we're all doing it to set that 1.1 billion record no?
"Last time when I spoke against sex education, I got calls from America and was pressurised from people there. But, the fact is this subject does not fit our society. There are so many complaints of girls being sexually abused by teachers. What will happen if we allow sex education? "
SHOBHA PHADNAVIS, BJP MLA from Savli constituency in Chandrapur
Sam's comment: Seriously, who wants to listen to those smart-alecky Americans. They said there were WMD's in USA, and look how wrong they were no? Also, since politicos rarely listen to people in their own constituency, why should you listen to Americans, again? Imagine, if more girls know what sex is, what's abuse, and start opening their mouth? Gosh, that would lead to more culprits being booked? Now we don't want that, do we? *wink*
Final analysis: Geezus HWDK Christ! What in the world is wrong with these people? It's lack of sex education which leads to teachers abusing students? And Indian culture? Heck, aren't we the land that taught the world how to screw in 108 positions (Kamasutra), and visualized that in a monument (Khajurao). How in the name of any god, did we become the second most populous nation, it'll always amaze me *naive look*?
What horrifies me is that ignorant attitudes prevail across the political spectrum. Who do I vote for if all parties are equally obnoxious and primitive?
I do hope the foreign educated, sons of ministers, a la Rahul Gandhi, tell these guys about the birds and bees.
The discussion should not be about 'we don't need sex ed, it will make our kids have sex', but rather 'when is the right age to tell our kids about sex', and how we want to ensure our population remains under control.
Once again, I get the feeling, we are a very primitive people. I wonder what our founding fathers would be thinking? Sigh!
3 comments:
This evening I was watching our local news channel and it was airing reports about how shiv sena party supporters went around bombay (ooops ! mumbai) breaking down boards at Bombay Scottish and Bombay Dyeing Compound. They were setting fire to newspapers that were being churned out by Bombay Times. Their grievance...they want all places, shops, institutions in Bombay (ooops! Mumbai) to be renamed so as to read Mumbai bla bla. Mumbati Times, Mumbai Dyeing Compound, Mumbai Scottish...you get the drift. Is this how our government wants to govern, pave the way? lead our youth? damaging property to make a mute point? Here is another example about how our government needs to stop worrying about non0issues like sex education and renaming cities, streets, institutions and get down to the real nitty gritties of what makes a good government. Imagine if all this effort, media publicity, hue and cry, speculation, special reports ...all this energy was devoted to some more important local and national issues...our cities and country have further greatness to achieve, we have the potential but many of our governing bodies seem to be at the crux of blockading important and fundamental progress and freedom in our nation.
The problem with democracy or in our case shamocracy is that the most popular person/ party wins.
Popularity, popular mandate, or the majority is best achieved *according to the way elections currently run* by divide and conquer. Politics is akin to marketing, there is segmentation of target audience, differentiation of brand/ parties/ people, penetration strategies to convey advertising/ messaging to the target audience, etc.
Add to that no rules to getting elected, which means no entry barriers, whether you are a criminal with many active cases, illiterate with no iota of common sense, a known bigot with subversive views.
Then there is the money, it all begins and ends with money. You need tons of it to run your campaigns, and the pay off is a free ride on the gravy train with unlimited get-out-of-jail card. Politics is the most lucrative profession, zero to billionaire via a few years of 'public service'.
This is where I believe that democracy in its current form doesn't work. I like democratic principles of freedom and liberty, but where is the freedom when you cannot even call your school, company, organization by Bombay instead of Mumbai.
I prefer China to this shamocracy, where I may not be able to vote, but I can bear the fruits of development, something gets trickled down. That isn't to say there isn't corruption in China, there is tons, but there is a different kind of entrepreneurial, cultural and religion-free environment.
The best strategy for young Indians, sadly, is still to get out of this country, head to greener pastures in the western world, live like second class citizens, but at least feel 'free', to a certain degree.
Post a Comment