On 24 January 2014 23:51, Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão <[email protected]> wrote: > Very true Ana Maria. When your children get married, will > you find them stupid for wearing a suit or a wedding gown? Would you tell them > to get married in a bush shirt or jeans and a t-shirt?
Just btw, I did get married in an off-white kurta-pjama. Something like this http://bit.ly/1jKItEU Nobody complained. (If they did, I would have treated it as their problem, not mine.) I found it comfortable, simple and more in keeping with my approach to life. Would anyone have a problem with that? (Subsequently, I have gone about in a suit, but my approach is: avoidable.) I do believe that the chief minister deserves to be criticised. But the clothes he wears should be 99th or 127th on the list of issues to criticise him over. There are in fact a lot of class and/or cultural biases in deciding what is apt clothing. We are revealing our bias in deciding what is 'right' and 'wrong'. This is as apt as someone else deciding whether Sikhs should be allowed to wear turbans, whether Muslim women ought to feel comfortable in burqas or not, and so on. To my mind, this is all relative to what we believe and see as "apt". See a cartoon which makes the point appropriately. So true: http://sglx3.netsarius.com/~rimasg/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/burqas-or-bikinis-L-FQ9zzd.jpeg Next we will start legislating what someone else's children should be studying in schools, what dialect and script should serve as their medium of instruction, what can be "acceptable" "mother tongues", and what not! Go forward a bit and we should also be thinking about what religion people follow ("foreign" or "Indian"). Or what garb is suitable for a woman at what age in her life! Let not our intolerance show. FN -- FN Phone +91-832-2409490 Mobile +91-9822122436
