NLS prof slut-shaming student in shorts is not surprising: It shows how India's premier law school behaves like a khap panchayats.
http://www.firstpost.com/india/nls-prof-slut-shaming-student-in-shorts-is-not-surprising-it-shows-how-indias-premier-law-school-behaves-like-a-khap-panchayat-2720450.html
On seeing the girl wearing shorts in her class, the professor
chose to make this sartorial choice an issue of sexuality saying: "We all
know why parents marry their children off - so that they can have sex. Just
because the parents marry off their children for this reason, it does not mean
that the children have sex in front of their parents." When the student in
question objected to this statement the professor is reported to have shot back
"You can come to class without a dress also. That is how your character
is, I'm going to ignore you".
I have seen
this kind of behavior by faculty in some of the colleges I teach. However this
so called problem has been got around by having a dress code. However the fact
remains that the generation gap is too wide to be bridged. Girls have come to
me with dress issues along with related problems as I was also looking after
their personal welfare.
The older
generation tends to forget that civilization and social conditions cannot
remain static, they are constantly evolving. Basically its a question of
Social, Cultural and religious bindings experienced by the older generation
which cannot view their off springs breaking out of these. Our perception of
something determines how we relate to that thing. It is a subjective experience
of something hence there is no right or wrong nor can we correct our
perception. “Our Perceptions build maps in our heads: What things are or
realities. What things should be – Our values. We interpret everything we
experience through these mental maps without questioning their accuracy”.
The myriad of
experiences one grows through, may they be religious, cultural, social and many
others jell into ones nature and behavior patterns and finally contribute to
our glasses of perceptions as to how the world is (our world view) and then
maybe how it should be. One can understand the above as “Perceptual
Restraints”. To further explain “Restraints”. If you go to an Indian village,
you will often find a bull tethered with a long rope to a stake dug into the
ground. Now as far as the bull is concerned, his reality is only a circle,
radius of that circle being the length of the rope he is tied by. Since the
bull's experience is limited to that circle, the bull is unaware of the rivers,
the oceans and the mountains and the world which exists beyond that circle.
This is a classic case of a "Perceptual Restraint". The restraint in
this case being the length of the rope.
If in the same
village a foreigner, a girl, enters wearing shorts, the villagers might stone
her, or hand her over to the police for indecency. The villagers cannot accept
this clothing because they are experiencing a cultural restraint, although by
no means it will be called indecent in her country.
The older
generation tends to forget that man evolved from an ape, evolution is a constant
change and asking the present generation to emulate their times aka 50's or
60's vintage behaviors, is like going back from Man to monkey, a kind of
reverse evolution.
During my
interaction with parents, I ask them to imagine that say in 400-500 years what
would be the scene. Earth cannot sustain this booming population. Most probably
civilization would have evolved to a central earth government. Their would be
no such thing as marriage and families, as earth would be one extended family.
The limited resources will be diligently governed and allotted by the state.
The state after due genetic testing will most likely send a male and a female
to live together for some period to mate and produce off spring and return to
their respective places of work. The off spring male or female would go into
state care, to be genetically tested for special qualities and propensity
towards specific activities, there after the child would be educated and
trained accordingly.
In this kind of
scenario which we are fast approaching, where would you be with your
unhappiness of girls wearing shorts and having living in relationships? It is
no longer a question of control verses freedom. Its a question of evolution of
coming generations to a certain level which would be required for mankind to
sustain itself on this Earth. Here we tend to mix up social, religious and
cultural bindings with values, as discussed earlier. In India we are extremely,
very extremely if I can use that expression, far away from these realities I
have discussed above. In fact if one of our local moral brigades read this may
be I will be stoned on the streets of Pune.
It is time to
understand where civilization is heading towards. It is also time to understand
that every soul or the inner self has a right to undergo certain experiences
which will help it to evolve as our creator planned. Why do people want to
deprive evolving souls their experiences of being earthly beings?
Its time for
a fundamental change in our Thinking, Emotions and Behavior patterns or the
older generation is doomed.
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