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31 Jan 2015 14:01 #237924
by chairman
In Australia, a 32-year-old Indian security guard has escaped a jail term after his attorney argued his harassment of women with unwanted texts, messages and personal advances was a by-product of his film fanaticism. What for some might be seen as stalking was, for Bollywood aficionados it was argued, “quite normal behaviour†as the movies encourage the idea that a woman will eventually fall in love with a man if he pursues her hard enough.
Quite a contention, yet it holds cultural weight. Rachel Dwyer, a professor in Indian cinema at SOAS, University of London, points out that the “often relentless†nature of the Bollywood leading man’s pursuit can be tracked through decades of examples, which she examines in her book Bollywood’s India. In the 60s, for example, screen heroes such as Shammi Kapoor, a pretty-boy famous for his cheeky on-screen persona, “would flirt and dance in front of the heroine, who initially rejected him but was won over when she found out his real worthâ€.
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31 Jan 2015 14:13 - 31 Jan 2015 14:48 #237928
by pattycake
Stalking and perversion can't be blamed on movies.
But Holly/Bollywood does capitalize on the condition.
On every wrongness and weakness, capitalism is there to bank on it.
Quite naturally then, if there's billions to be made on human ignorance and frailties, it will be suggested that it's quite normal, which does encourage it to continue. Bollywood ain't going nowhere, so the individual has to be wise and strong enough to go in the opposite direction.
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31 Jan 2015 14:47 - 31 Jan 2015 14:56 #237930
by pattycake
Thing is,
Most people have no idea what's normal or abnormal because we don't get that kind of education, and so we tend to assume that the way we are is normal. Especially if everywhere we look we see people doing the same thing. As far as stalking goes, I can write a book about that, because I experienced a lot of that when I was a child. First, a grown ass man stalking me when I was 11 years old, and then males everywhere I went when I was a teenager.
I got the impression that most males hated me and hated females period, but I couldn't understand why they wanted sex with females. Why anybody would want to have sex with somebody they hate. I couldn't fathom that at all. Everywhere I looked people were angry and pissed off, and rude, and for no apparent reason, but quick to have sex. And for years I struggled trying to determine whether or not that was normal and something I'm supposed to be trying to fit in with and be a part of.
And I came to the conclusion that the answer is hell no.
The way the masses behaves is definitely not normal and something is wrong.
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