Originally posted by: mallukumari
@bold: The amount of times I've screamed this line, even at my parents, about how weak family honor or male fragility is in Indian society, is innumerable.
I understand the attraction to see something in fiction that you wouldn't support elsewhere, but the fact that it's a trend worries me. Like our narrow view point in society is so suffocating.
I've watched a lot of ASR-type male leads and loved them. But I've also had access and awareness of a lot of other things, to not accept such crap in my real life.
I'm highly doubtful Indian society will every change if this is the fodder they're fed. I still watch some clips of Ghum here and there. I like Sai and that's about it. I don't understand why adults have to live with emotional abuse because they're blood related. That family izzat topic is given too much importance....India is still a nation that has honor killings.
I would love to see a daily soap succeed that actually had people live together before marriage and their family isn't scandalized. How does the screen of "marriage" protect someone's izzat?
I would be an anarchist if I wasn't brought up in desi society, I think. I don't get how human beings decided that we'll go to school from 3 to 21, then work, then marry, then produce children many times over, then wait to die!
It is 2021!