Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
> Isn't it equally de rigueur for them to stop dancing once they're older
> and/or on the verge of getting married, because it's not respectable
> for marriageable and married young women to be dancing?
Stereotype / de rigueur question in those "arranged marriage" interviews
where the boy's parents go do all the talking with the girl's parents, the
boy is supposed to shut the hell up and the girl answer with "yes",
"B.Tech", "Infosys", [salary that's at least 5..10K less than the boy's
salary] <- details which her dad has probably already filled in before, in
great detail, along with the girls horoscope and what her brothers, her
uncles etc are doing etc etc, before that meeting even takes place, but
still ..
One inevitable question in such a stereotype interview is "can you dance /
sing". Followed by a request for a live demo. Both sets of parents and the
boy being tone deaf and the girl's voice a horrendous braying are an
optional extra, and completely irrelevant .. yet another "yes" to tick on
the checklist.
srs
