If a single man and single woman, both adults, with an unconventional age gap have evolved over a month to a unique consensual relationship, we have just three options here: deny its existence altogether, celebrate ageism and/ or bully those who who saw it coming and accepted them for who they are. In fact on another thread there are insinuations of women playing to the casting couch too! But we just can’t accept simple, straightforward love. That just can’t happen, eh? Love is inpossible on a reality show, eh? Loss of the age of innocence? Is there is a rule book on courtship? A rule book on how one should fall in love? Does every woman have to subscribe to the same kind of intimacy? Who are we to judge what a woman likes? Maybe she will flirt with him for a day or a show or her lifetime? Single woman. Take it or ignore.
And then there was this narrative the other day of how absurd it was of Rashmi to jump upon the love of her life Arhaan. I don’t know a thing about the guy. That notwithstanding, Rashmi was age shamed again citing women of her age were not expected to do that. She can’t jump like teens it was said! Er, what?! She can’t scramble at her man? She should control her emotions and excitement for whom and what? Are they in an emotional prison house to neglect themselves and ignore their feelings? The guy has been repeat shamed too using uncouth words. Really? We set the standards and boundaries for everything from love to women’s limits or lack of limits, eh?
For all the progressiveness we espouse, are we still expecting women to conform to society’s expectations heaped upon them to often end up projecting our own ultra conservative emotions on their behalf? In both cases, the reactions have been simply poor and the moral policing horrific.
And now, the final case of the one woman in the house who constantly holds up a literal placard of her engagement and her fiancé every single day she has been in there. She is relentlessly flirted at by a guy and that is monumentally forgiven or not a matter enough for discussion. Neither the kisses or hugs or anything else. Because, somehow this is consensual. And the other two are not. Go figure!
Edited by Uma2010 - 6 years ago