there was something i wanted to write abt which thanks to my procrastination, i've not bin able to write as yet...i saw 'juno' on television..it is a movie about a teenager, a 16 yr old, faced with an unplanned pregnancy, who decides not to go through an abortion, and instead gives the baby to a childless couple..
it is quite a sweet movie..and apart from the character 'juno', essayed by ellen page, and the song 'anyone else but you', what i really really liked was the 'sexual liberation' in the soceity potrayed by the movie...where sex is not unholy and it doesnt merit the soceity's deprecation... yes..teenage pregnanacy is looked down upon..but not coz premarital sex is a sin but because it is imperative to play it safe..and all this when compared to the claustrophobic soceity we live in is utopia...
juno’s parents freaked out when she confided in them…true..but at least she could think of talking to them…if faced with a similar situation, I would have preferred to run away if I had the money or better still put the noose around my neck…than…oh gosh..even writing it here gives me the creeps…and juno’s parents, her mum esp saw it coming when she saw her in such great consternation…that’s coz I guess she knew what it is like to be a 16yr ol…when there’s so much to discover about urself..body and soul..
she could put herself in the shoes of sumone who was not just her daughter but also an adolescent…for that u have to know ur kids not just academically but also emotionally…
this incident happened a year ago...i was walking on the streets with CD (my boyfriend..and i'll write a lot more abt him in the forthcoming blogs..)..i dun remember clearly but probably we were holding hands...and this old lady comes up to us from nowhere..an absolute stranger to both of us..and shrieks aloud..'do ur parents know abt this..??? bunking classes...nothing better to do...blah blah'...and before we could even think of reacting she huffed puffed away...a person who doesnt know us at all has an opinion as to how i should be leading my life...!
another incident... this happened about 6 months back..i was returning to college in the evening and the metro was crowded like hell..there was a young couple waiting near the doors..and as the crowd at 'chandni chowk' station tumbled in all together.. jostling and pushing...the guy put his arm around the girl trying to protect her from the crowd..and this middle aged guy started muttering loudly- ei shob korar jonne victoria aache...('they can do all this at victoria'.... victoria memorial which is calcutta heritage and also a favourite hangout area for couples)...
so gist of the story is that the freakingly narrow minded attitude of the soceity bugs me like crazy...u r looked down upon if u hold the hands of sumone u love and u are considered characterless if u are unmarried and u have physical desires…what I donot understand is why is the whole ‘sati savitri’ image put on such a pedestal…for women that is..guys have always done what they have wanted to…why aren’t the physiological processes of the body given their due importance…I mean there is something called hormones…and its perfectly all right to be governed by their rise and fall! Umm…okay..this is medical shit that I am typing..guess that’s the cue to get back to my books….
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