Thursday, May 1, 2008

False morality

Cheerleaders are causing a stir in the Indian premier league of cricket. The very definition of twenty20 cricket was about creating an entertaining event with the two cornerstones - Bollywood and Cricket. Now the politicians have got into the act, criticizing the cheerleaders for propagating the "wrong" message with their revealing dresses and suggestive routines.

I cannot passover a chance to psychoanalyze -
1. If this is done so that we can refocus on cricket, ok. But then, take out the rest of the tamasha too.
2. If this is done from the so-called moral viewpoint, it is crap. There is more on 'display' on the typical bollywood item number - women dancing in the group dance numbers are scantily dressed white women. It has become a badge of bollywood. Totally pandering to the lowest common denominators-fantasy of sex with a fair 'easy' woman. Have a devi at home who cooks and does not complain/ demand and is not emancipated, and have a vamp for the fun in bed.

Indians are inherently generally racist (white over black), elitist (rich over poor), snobbish(high class/caste over low) desperates (want sex but suppress it as there is a social stigma about it - coming from the land of the Kamasutra and the temples replete with sexual poses, it is a bit rich).

No chance of so much hungama happening if these were brown Indian/ black / Chinese cheerleaders even if they were scantily dressed and shaking their hips more vigorously.

False morality.

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