Sometime during my 6th std, I came to know what a "bad-word" means. It was just a starting point with 1 or 2 so-called-rowdis in the class used to utter it, and get punished my teachers after being pottukuduththufied by some pandu pasanga!! By 8th or so, almost half my class started using it. But the usage was restricted to only fights and only when being angry. This continued on and on and on with almost 95% of the boys starting to use them all by 12th std. Entering college, I could find the boys matured so much that they started using them all so colloquially every now and then. The air was filled with clear pronounciation of all those body-parts-or-diff-professions-or-watever-comes-under-bad-words. They moved on to nicknaming boys with all those names and it became a routine life to hear those words every now and then just like hearing one's name. Thought processes started getting corrupted with such vulgar (?!) and erotic (?!) words.
This continued over the years when the film industry started using this as a style factor for the villains, after the poor villains were banned from smoking in the movies. Thanks to Gautam Menon!! But for him, probably(!!) none would have known many words or wouldnt have started using in day to day life more frequently or wouldnt have educated many or wouldnt have became a more stylish factor for reel life villains!! Poor censor board, many couldn't figure out what the villain is trying to say in the movie. All heard just beeps whenever they showed the villain's face!! This continued over the films that followed and developed to an extent that the villain's dreamgirl or the sorna-ka or the female villain too starting to use it!! [ courtesy: pithamahan :P ]
I cannot say if this was the start for the girls to start using such words. But somewhere at some point of time, they too started using it!! But the poor part is, they started using such words without knowing what they actually mean!!! :( I was stunned to notice that this style factor has become a part of soaps too to increase their TRP rating. A new serial's trailer in Vijay TV had a loud beep for a word uttered by an actress in that. I really doubt if she knows the actual meaning of what she utters there and she actually utters such a word so casually even after knowing the meaning of it!!
This has nothing to do with gender bias or something. In that male dominated society, the male air got corrupted and polluted long long ago. With boys able to hear only such pleasant-honey-smoothened-words when in a group always!! Atleast the female air was a bit pure all these years. Should this corrupt their air too??? Should they also delve into such so-called-bad-words?? Should they also corrupt their mind?? Should they also become morally bad?? [ Edhaachchum seiyyanum sir!! oops madam!! :P ]
This continued over the years when the film industry started using this as a style factor for the villains, after the poor villains were banned from smoking in the movies. Thanks to Gautam Menon!! But for him, probably(!!) none would have known many words or wouldnt have started using in day to day life more frequently or wouldnt have educated many or wouldnt have became a more stylish factor for reel life villains!! Poor censor board, many couldn't figure out what the villain is trying to say in the movie. All heard just beeps whenever they showed the villain's face!! This continued over the films that followed and developed to an extent that the villain's dreamgirl or the sorna-ka or the female villain too starting to use it!! [ courtesy: pithamahan :P ]
I cannot say if this was the start for the girls to start using such words. But somewhere at some point of time, they too started using it!! But the poor part is, they started using such words without knowing what they actually mean!!! :( I was stunned to notice that this style factor has become a part of soaps too to increase their TRP rating. A new serial's trailer in Vijay TV had a loud beep for a word uttered by an actress in that. I really doubt if she knows the actual meaning of what she utters there and she actually utters such a word so casually even after knowing the meaning of it!!
This has nothing to do with gender bias or something. In that male dominated society, the male air got corrupted and polluted long long ago. With boys able to hear only such pleasant-honey-smoothened-words when in a group always!! Atleast the female air was a bit pure all these years. Should this corrupt their air too??? Should they also delve into such so-called-bad-words?? Should they also corrupt their mind?? Should they also become morally bad?? [ Edhaachchum seiyyanum sir!! oops madam!! :P ]
6 comments:
hmm..
I'll list out the points that I liked first.. :P
1. the history of usage as you viewed.. :P
2. your last statement.. within the braces.. ;P
Though I agree with your concern over the usage part in general, there are many things I contradict and let me put them here..
1. Gautam menon - worst thing happened to tamil cinema in my opinion.. ivan lam padam edukala nu yaru azhutha?
When you try to picturize some real(??!!) life incidents, then go ahead and do that.. Don't just bluff and be hypocrite.. When you cast a negative character(or villain), will he be satisfied by just these words(inga vendam nu pakaran..)..
2. Next thing is the impact of these reel-life dialogues in real-life.. Quite debatable.. This is not something that came out of nothing.. This has been there for yeons and didn't start with some idiots like Gautam.. May be the percentage of usage would've gone up with the changes in lifestyle in general..
3. >> I cannot say if this was the start for the girls to start using such words
This sentence irritates me.. If at all they use, or started to use(as you say), what kind of opinion could you have on that? And how many such instances do you have to come to a conclusion that *girls* started to use it.. Is that enough to conclude? We cannot *generalize* anything here..
4. >>they too started using it!!
I couldn't get the reason behind the exclamation marks here.. Does that suppose that male and female are unequal, and they come from heavens(if there is one)!!.. If so, the first line of the next paragraph contradicts with this statement.. :P
5. >>Should they also become morally bad??
hmm.. morally bad? So what decides good and bad about a person's character?
3. >> I cannot say if this was the start for the girls to start using such words
This sentence irritates me.. If at all they use, or started to use(as you say), what kind of opinion could you have on that? And how many such instances do you have to come to a conclusion that *girls* started to use it.. Is that enough to conclude? We cannot *generalize* anything here..
>>> I didnt say.. all girls started using it!! Thats *generalization* !! I just said.. girls started using it! It's just a fact! Be it minority or majority! It's something in existence!!! What was jus a minority during my 6th has became a way of life today!!! I again dont generalise that things will grow like that always!! I just qn.. Is such a thing needed?? It is just one's opinion/right to qn such things!
4. >>they too started using it!!
I couldn't get the reason behind the exclamation marks here.. Does that suppose that male and female are unequal, and they come from heavens(if there is one)!!.. If so, the first line of the next paragraph contradicts with this statement.. :P
They *too* - could have raised your BP just like it raised my eyebrows. I dont deny that girls and boys are equal! But.. being equal.. doesnt ask one to do all those negative things ( in my POV! ). Reason for that exclamation -- girls are tender people.. a positive source of energy.. something regarded as divine ( against the odd male devils!! :P ).. and are held as "good" always!!( user-opinion :D ). and the SOURCE-OF-INFLUENCE for the next generation feeding in good thoughts in them as "good" moms!! Do you mind a small baby calling out some $#@!%^&*() in front of you on the road?? If you mind.. why do you?? If you dont.. something fundamentally wrong with ur brain!! :P -- It is the same correlation here!!
5. >>Should they also become morally bad??
hmm.. morally bad? So what decides good and bad about a person's character?
>>> Speaking such words is morally bad in my opinion. It is just one's opinion again. Just like smoking and drinking ( and getting addicted to coffee-byte :P ) are bad, this is bad in my eyes. Your eyes could have a wider aperture probably!! :D :D
>>Is such a thing needed??
This is what I wanted in the first place.. This is a valid qn, without any prejudice.. I'll accept.. But from a point, your post was intended to ask "Do girls need such a thing?" That's what made me comment.. If that's the real intention, I'll again defy..
>>girls are tender people.. a positive source of energy.. something regarded as divine ( against the odd male devils!! :P ).. and are held as "good" always!!( user-opinion :D)
Assuming these are your *opinions*, I'll stop here.. Coz I can't question you any further..
>>If you dont.. something fundamentally wrong with ur brain
hmm.. Again, you're judging me here.. :P And on what scale? I don't know.. huh.. hmm.. [ithuku iruku da unaku..]
>>Is such a thing needed??
This is what I wanted in the first place.. This is a valid qn, without any prejudice.. I'll accept.. But from a point, your post was intended to ask "Do girls need such a thing?" That's what made me comment.. If that's the real intention, I'll again defy..
>>>> It's more of.. "Do girls need such a thing?" only!! As the male society is already corrupted and it's hard to change it and make it cultured. Atleast we can stop the new weeds to grow!!!! Right?? :D
>>girls are tender people.. a positive source of energy.. something regarded as divine ( against the odd male devils!! :P ).. and are held as "good" always!!( user-opinion :D)
Assuming these are your *opinions*, I'll stop here.. Coz I can't question you any further..
>>>> Ofcourse, my opinions!! :)
>>If you dont.. something fundamentally wrong with ur brain
hmm.. Again, you're judging me here.. :P And on what scale? I don't know.. huh.. hmm.. [ithuku iruku da unaku..]
>>>> That's how people are!! Judging others!! Just like you judging my perception / opinion of asking girls to stop it to be wrong!!! :P :P
>>As the male society is already corrupted and it's hard to change it and make it cultured. Atleast we can stop the new weeds to grow!!!!!
Aagaa.. Heard that RamSena is being banned hereafter in Karnataka.. but it doesn't seem so.. :) Here comes our Sriram, to take the mantle of cultural policing.. [Anney.. nadathunga..]
So you won't question the male society and will allow them to continue.. But if it comes to the next gender, you'll suddenly scream and write a post right? ha ha.. That's great!!
>>>> That's how people are!! Judging others!! Just like you judging my perception / opinion of asking girls to stop it to be wrong!!! :P :P
Right.. Go ahead.. Be happy..
ada paavi.. politics aa kondu vadhuttiyae!! naan illeengo!!! :) :) :)
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