this show is sending out wrong message - Page 4

Originally posted by: jhumapan

There is nothing wrong being a house wife or home maker...........I love them and respect them......freedom/indepence ke naam pe aaj kal bahut kuchh ultapulta chal raaha hain......I work full time...a scientist........still respect home makers......that's all want to say......

Originally posted by: angelina23

I see your point. But is there anything wrong with glorifying housework?
This show is doing so because it seems to convey the message that in our pursuit of getting an education and making money, we seem to look down upon those women who do not have an education and are incapable of earning. This show is novel, because it tries to bring into focus the fact that in today's society, we undermine and underestimate the work that housewives do, and somehow think that they are less intelligent or less worthy of a decent married life. Its not glorifying housework with the implication that it should be the one and only goal for women. Rather, it is glorifying it in a way so that we dont degrade housework in comparison to having a career. This means that it portrays girls having an education and a career as the norm. As an advocate of women's education myself, I would much rather prefer this approach than showing a society where a woman's role in the kitchen is taken for granted and a girl's education and career is shown as something extra special or out of hte ordinary.

Abour Varsha loving her sister, of course she does. As a realistic soap, the characters cant be shown as total devils and must be a humanistic combination of good and bad. But this is the same Varsha who in the first episode says, "Since I make money, I want at a guy who earns at least 30,000 (or something of that sort) a month. Vaise Tai (archana) ke liye mahine ka bara tera hazar kamane wala hi kaafi hai." Whether that is arrogance or concern for her sister, I shall let you decide that.

Originally posted by: jhumapan

There is nothing wrong being a house wife or home maker...........I love them and respect them......freedom/indepence ke naam pe aaj kal bahut kuchh ultapulta chal raaha hain......I work full time...a scientist........still respect home makers......that's all want to say......

Originally posted by: minotti

You are trying to say something but your way of saying it means entirely different thing.

First of all.. you had to stress the point that you ARE A SCIENTIST!!!

And then you say that you STILL respect homemaker. As if you should not, but STILL do it. I dont want to hurt anybody's feeling. Just that it is the general trend. in society to pick one way as the superior one. Two generation back it was a 'looked down upon' thing for working girls, now it is look down upon on non-working girls. I had been a housewife for 6 years (I hold a proffessional degree) and recently joined work as my kids are big enough now. I see an increased respect and admiration for myself from my in-laws to my acquaintances. I never saw that admiration when I was raising two little kids and doing all household work myself... I did not even had any maid that time..

No comments.... I just agree.....