so the roomies were watching this serial called ‘emotional attyachar’ on UTV bindass. On this show the participants subject their partners to a so called purity tests and if they come out clean the relationship survives else they breakup on tv, in effect increasing the trp ratings. So the contestants this time around were bobby darling and her boy friend. I’ve always hated these reality shows so the roomies force me to sit and watch. The moment bobby darling comes onto screen the whole room erupts into lol’s and abuses about LGBT’s. I for once am appalled at this sudden transformation in this mass of people who earlier were all hunk dory and talking about cricket and Veer. One guy starts off by how he hates gays. The second guy joins in chorus on how gays should not/cannot exist in the ancient holy land of India and even suggests extremist measures to exterminate them (a poster child for those religious fanatics) a third guy chips in (quoting fictional experiences) on how if you sit next to gays you catch their gay-ness and how gays molest you just by sight, because that’s what gays do. The fourth guy says nature created man only to be attracted to females and males getting attracted to males is a violation of the basic laws of nature and reproduction. I tried to argue with the angry group saying each person is free to choose his partner and his own preferences, why should society have a problem. For too long have people suffered trying to fit into the image society has of/for them. I accuse them of being homophobes.
The angry mob (yes now even four enraged people seem like a mob to me) starts hurling abuses and snide remarks about stuff they can’t fathom. Some dude rattles off statistics on how the ratio of men to women is falling and now with this gay problem etc. One more guy starts off by saying gays are just people who though genetically wired correctly have sick ideas in their mind. One guy says because of the new found media hunger for gays (quoting rohit from big boss) he can’t have masti with his guy friends (holding pinky fingers as they walk down the road leeching at women ?)as he used to do before, for the fear of being labeled gay.
I could sense the mob getting angrier by the minute as the topic prolonged and soon a stone pelting exercise would start. [people fear what they don’t understand] After a heavy session of who can shout better and in how many languages all were tired and I left the scene. But the mob was saving the best for the last : “dude let him go. he doesn’t have a girl friend and he is always cheerful and he supports ‘them’, he must be gay.” WTF.
