I Guess I've Found Out Why I Love Web-weavings And Parallels So Much. There's A Sense Joy And Comfort

I guess I've found out why I love web-weavings and parallels so much. There's a sense joy and comfort in seeing how we all coming from different places, situations and time periods at the end of the day are not so different at all, we are just humans trying to give a meaning to this being. I love how an advice given by an old writer 30 years ago to a school kid reminds me of the words my uncle told me when I was 15, how the poems and books written 100s of years ago by people you've never met have been the closest thing that felt like home to you, how the rage and yearning bleeds from the words of one writer to the brush strokes of another artist and to the music of another, how someone right now must be musing about the same moon that a little child looked at awe 1000 years ago. It's beautiful how we're so different and yet so similar because someone somewhere at some point of time felt the same things as you and decided to let it out so that you'll remember you aren't alone.

i think more queer people should just be casually visible in the day to day life.

whether its hearing a gay person talk about ‘xyz is so cute’ without being terrified. trans people who have a binder strap showing and dont care. a trans woman, casually complaining about how long it took to get to the pharmacy to get her hrt. polyamory couples being publicly affectionate. aro people who make jokes about their sexuallity. pride pins on shirts. nonbinary person wearing a pronoun pin in public. just... queer people existing shamelessly.

I'm back again with yet another rant about the English course and yes this is about 'Should Wizard Hit Mommy?' and how many of the students think it should be removed because of the misogynistic comments of one of the characters. See I find that chapter really important and interesting because of it's main and direct theme being the questioning/acceptance of parental authority (or any authority in our lives) and child-parent ideological differences. But apart from that there are so many underlying themes in this story like how not everything is just black and white (ie the answer to should wizard hit mommy), Jack's dilemma as a parent, feeling of outcast and being different, how people treat those who are different than the norms etc. As readers it really depends on us on what we interpret and find in these stories and I won't start an analysis here just to save time. It's an open ended story anyways.

Now coming onto Jack, just because he isn't an ideal fictional man and has balantly realistic misogynistic attitude, people demand this chapter to be removed and call it a shitty chapter??? Hello?? What do you want?? Our courses to be filled with fairytales of unrealistically ideal characters without any flaws like children books?? We are 12th graders folks. Jack is as real as any male we encounter in our daily lives and his presence in the chapter does not make the chapter shitty or unworthy of being taught in the class. We as readers are to question characters like him, nobody is saying to idolize the characters and love them all. We have grey characters like him to make us wonder and question things, not to just accept everything being told. Just because the chapters are being taught in the worst way possible doesn't make the chapters unworthy of being taught. Now cue to my last rant why I don't really blame the students for this but our educators. I really like the chapters of our ncert books, they'd have been great if used to their full potential instead of being seen as stories to be read nonchalantly and crammed to get scores. But well...

Reading Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 and I finally understand why it stirred so much controversy. If we all start talking about all the subtle ways misogyny has been rooted in our behaviours and thinkings; (we'll loose our sanity if we do that really) it's definitely gonna make people mad because in a world where people seem to ignore and stay silent on the obvious "bigger" acts of misogyny and sexism, they definitely aren't ready to have talks about the internalised and normalised misogyny. Heck they don't even think it exists.

Seriously I thought the wrapping up of menstrual pads in black poly bags and papers while selling it was an Indian society thing but turns out it isn't. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 is more relatable than I thought it would be.

Socially anxious desi culture is wanting to attend marriage functions only to eat the food and then get out asap.