Harihi OM!

UPDATE : Well, he took down the original page (actually, I believe he made the post private) and put up a "revised" proposition. Check it out. I haven't read it yet, but I'm sure you'll find some insightful, delightful, mental gems in there.

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I'm saving this comment that I made on this blog here, because I feel it could potentially be deleted soon. But I want to get this thought out there. Please feel free to disagree with me.

I will only answer your second set of questions because the first ones are questioning biological functions. Please take those up with nature.

A1. No it hasn’t. Men have been. (the tactic i’ve employed for this answer is called Dismissal)

A2. Are you nuts? Are you friggin’ delusional or something? Two decades ago? That’s it? “Girls” have been able to do things which were considered to be exclusively in the male domain for friggin’ ages. Have you even read the Mahabharata? (taking that as a common reference) Sri Krishna’s wife, Satyabhama/Satyadevi. A warrior and a very good one at that.

More contemporary and non-mythological examples. Marie Curie. Sarojini Naidu. Emmy Noether. Virginia Woolf. Indira Gandhi. Jhansiki Rani. I could look them all up and put them here. Suffice it to say they’re there.

This is exactly what I was referring to as misogyny. By you. This fight between the sexes didn’t start at the same time you were born. It has existed for centuries. Get over yourself you narcissistic idiot.

As far as the differences go, apart from biological differences, the only ones there were imposed by society. That’s what is wrong with people like you trying to find themselves to be better than other people. Stop it. Just stop trying to blame your short-comings on others. Realize this simple fact. You make your own destiny. It’s not just an optimistic idiom for life. It’s a harsh reality. That’s why people keep striving to better themselves. They’re not trying to be better than other people. They’re trying to be better than themselves. Do you understand what I’m saying?
(This tactic is called condescension)

A3. Jobs at businesses are made to make the company money. That is all that the companies care about. How they get their employees to do so in the last century or two is what you seem to think is the normal modus operandi. No. This is the result of two distinct philosophies colliding. The family is more intrinsically socialist while a business is capitalist. So when a company decides that an employee’s personal life is affecting too much of their money making ability they fire him/her. If it were a purely technical reason, then there are methods to fix it. Training, mentor programs etc. But because wall between the family world and the business world is millions of kilometers/miles thick, company personnel don’t bother to cross it. (This has changed in the past few decades or more. It’s just that some people (like you) haven’t understood this. Most of these people turn up in management and compound the situation.) Coming back to my main point, the company personnel not trying to cross over causes bad feelings in employees who generalize the situation and feel the company is against families. This leads to ill-will between management and employees. All this snow-balls into something much much worse and the company starts losing more money.

The other fact that you seem to be forgetting is, the definition of families has changed somewhat over the years. They are more so now, than ever before, capitalist ventures where heirs inherit their parents’ wealth. Gone were the days when what children inherited was their family’s name and prestige and all that came with it. Capitalist societies function thus. Families aren’t under threat, don’t be that afraid or paranoid. If you cannot handle having kids while having to earn a living, then hold off having kids for a while even after you get married. You’re still young, there’s a whole life ahead of you to have kids and raise a family. But don’t blame companies for not wanting to deal with people bringing their work home and vice versa.

Those are my thoughts. I sincerely hope you got something out of this.

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As far as militant feminism goes, they’re the antithesis of male chauvinists. They need to be laughed at and ignored. That’s all. People who keep screaming against male or female oppression are just not smart enough to get their way and feel that throwing a tantrum is the best way to get what they want. These are those same people who as kids were told by their doting parents that they could have anything they wanted. These people tend not to grow up and act childish throughout their lives.

If there indeed was oppression by a male or female superior, there are easier ways to deal with the situation than holding your breath and bitching about it.

I had a really long talk with a friend today.

We talked about some important stuff and some useless stuff.

I don't care if you don't agree with me.

Just don't kill me because of that.The Inception.htmlThe Filler1.htmlThe Filler2.htmlThe Inconclusion.html

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UPDATE(08/06/06): Metlin's discussing the topic on his page too. He originally titled it "Solutions to a problem Why the Middle East needs to go" (capitalization mine). He now has a more mellow title. http://www.metlin.org/2006/08/06/solutions-to-a-problem-the-heart-of-terror-in-the-middle-east/

I made a few comments and observations on the topic. If all that you can say is "You are wrong", don't bother. If you can tell me why, do so.

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UPDATE(08/08/06): There's a comment in Metlin's page about George Galloway's rant on Sky News. I must say, I find myself in a position where I must apologize profusely to anyone who thought I suggested that the entire Hizbollah be decimated. I did think that, because I was led to believe that Hizbollah were a purely terrorist organization who had taken over Lebanon. Once again. Fact checks. Always important. If you will allow me to correct my terrible terrible error, I will try my best to do so.

However, that does not imply that that justifies any rhetoric which mandates the eradication of a nation or a people. 50 years of conflict in that area does that to a people and their mindset, but how long do they want this to go on? Until someone decides to go ahead and flex their nuclear muscles again? Would you really rather die than find a solution which ensures your survival?

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UPDATE(08/17/06): Well, after some guy got fired from his job because of some (allegedly) incredibly insensitive and racist comments, metlin feels his posts are not worth losing his job over. So he got rid of them for now. I still think that that's living in terror, but I also sympathise. In any case, trying to move those posts here so that those brilliant pieces of art may not slip into myth and infamy.

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It's the sheer bloody mindedness of the entire thing.

Wouldn't it be better if the government were to get more contact between the corporations and the ISPs to suggest that pages be removed for content and let the host (blogger.com, opera.com, wordpress.org, ... etc.) have the option of blocking/removing content or advising the page owner to cease and desist?

The way the government's wording it, it almost sounds like, oh I don't know, if a blogger were to, let's say, speak out against a hypothetical institution, the IIPM for example, who were to be pissed with that blogger, who for our argument's sake said that their college was a fraud. They could then get the ISPs to block that particular blog now couldn't they? And the Government could say that this was justified.

Gaurav Sabnis DesiPundit

I've come across just two references to this news item in my facebook community page and a former colleague just IM'd an identical message to the same effect.

Subhash Srivastav, a student of the AIIMS, died at 6:44PM on the 20th of May 2006 and his death has been attributed to his hunger strike in opposition to the proposed reservation initiative in India. The messages even go on to say that the media isn't reporting this issue. I haven't been able to ascertain if this was because of someone trying to suppress this bit of news or because the family of the deceased wished to protect their privacy.

In either case, I haven't been able to find news articles citing this claim. Please do link to these articles if they exist.

My condolences to the deceased's family and friends. I hope his death was not in vain.

[Image removed for fear of death from above]

UPDATE: Thanks to the DesiTexan for pointing to the news article which cites this claim to be a hoax. Good work boy. Here's a biscuit. Fetch!

here was a gathering of Vietnamese students and faculty of our college (or school - whatever) today to protest the percieved injustice meted out to them by the University of Texas at Arlington. The crux of the matter is, about a month ago, in the annual international student event, the present flag of the communist regime in Vietnam was paraded rather than this flag. The students gathered in a parking lot today and the police even blocked the roads leading to the parking lot - there must have been a march planned or something.

In any case, I would have missed all of this if I hadn't gone past the parking lot on my way to get my hair cut. The lady at the salon (which coincidentally happens to be under Vietnamese management - and I think the lady is incharge of the place) told me that today was the anniversary of a "very bad day for my people". I suppose we (i.e. Indians) have those too (Jallianwalah Bagh comes to mind). She then told me that this was the day that 30 years ago her people lost their country to the present government. The thought suddenly went into my head - we got our independence 50 years ago - and we've steadily been losing our country. I was shocked that I had convinced myself that. Or was I just trying to compete with her on a nationalistic level?