Comments on: Keeping mum

By: Alpana

Alpana — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:45:00 +0000

Well, you should update more often

By: Payal

Payal — Mon, 18 May 2009 14:51:38 +0000

*gasp* It’s you!

By: Alpana

Alpana — Mon, 18 May 2009 09:43:38 +0000

When was mother’s day? Now i feel good about not even knowing!!

By: Payal

Payal — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:30:05 +0000

There are way too many double standards about this. The way it’s marketed also makes it a class thing!

Haven’t disappeared exactly. Just staying offline because I’ve got a lot of work (which a few months from now should earn me some peanuts, which in turn makes me a monkey, I guess!).

By: Proteeti

Proteeti — Wed, 13 May 2009 12:43:28 +0000

It’s all about commercialisation, that’s all there is to it. The papers were full of expensive gifts you could buy your mom, or five-star hotels you could take for a special meal … seriously, what about loving and respecting her the remaining 364 days? We’ve always had the totally hypocritical goddess worship – and have you noticed how even our goddesses conform to patriarchal visions of womanhood? – and now this Mother’s Day just adds to the shindig.

Btw, where have you disappeared to? Been a while since we talked.

By: Payal

Payal — Mon, 11 May 2009 05:27:59 +0000

Yeah, to sell. That’s the whole point of it. It doesn’t mean anything apart from that. I agree with both of you that it’s contrived to express an emotion on a certain day earmarked for it. That’s a bit like, “Love your mother on mother’s day but treat her like rubbish the rest of the year, for mother’s day will be back next year!”

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 11 May 2009 04:50:20 +0000

“It is an interesting dichotomy indeed: you “worship” a woman so long as she limits herself to the role you decide she may have.”

Indeed.

It does seem an awkward, contrived thing to express love on command for these kinds of holidays. It trivializes the entire thing. Now, if there was a day where violence toward women would stop and our rights were supported that would be another thing. But, I don’t think you can sell very much that way, and that is whole point.

By: Niklas

Niklas — Sun, 10 May 2009 12:20:26 +0000

Niklas never celebrated mother’s day much…or father’s day or valentine. I donno if it has anything to do with repect but it feels awkward to told to express love or something just because it is some specifc day.

Niklas’s name’s day is 6th December (a Sunday this year). It has not been comercialized and he isn’t a woman so you are all free to worship him instead. In fact, you should worship him just to spare all the mothers.