Re: [silk] dutch free speech

[Deepa Mohan]

 wish for a time , and a world, when people of all sorts can be accepted without having to conform to restrictive "norms". How long will it take in India, I wonder? Having said, that, though, I must say that all my "orthodox"  family and friends in Bangalore  were SO accepting of the gay American couple who came over for our daughter's wedding; there seemed to be absolutely no issues at all! I did wonder, though, what the reactions would have been if it had been an Indian couple...would there have been equal acceptance? Would the couple themselves have been as easy in their relationship as these two were, (because they came from a place where such relationships are accepted)? I can only speculate.

 

Deepa.

On 7/18/06, Thaths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On 7/18/06, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've got a very good friend - she used to ride a big Enfield Bullet bike
> all the time when she was in India.  Happily married and in Purdue right
> now. I havent checked but I think she's got herself a moto there as well

And I like sewing. My point is that stereotypes are meaningless. Even
if they were true and your friend were a dyke or I were gay, it
doesn't make any difference to our intelligence or what we can
contribute to the world.

Thaths
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