Women & Clothing
It has been a long pending topic on my blog and it took a debate in Vijay TV to provoke me to write this post in my blog. The views expressed have been amassed from the show with the infusion of my views as well. The subject of discussion was as to whether there needs to be a dress code for women in our society? If you ask me, I'll vote nudity for both the sex.Now that it isn't possible atleast in the near future, I shall deliberate on the concept of women & clothes in this post.
Women and Men are inseparable from the society and so is process of getting attracted to each other. Of many things that attract males to the opposite gender, clothes would obviously find a rampant place in the list. There is a proverb in Tamil that goes likes this "Aal Pathi Aadai Pathi" which means Clothes and Men are two halves, it emphasises that clothes are as important as the mental personality.
Now the whole issue arises when clothes are halved, I don't know whether women gossip when a male adorns revealing clothing, I'll tell you this, it’s like the topic for the town hall / small hall for the male society. We males obviously comment on how attractive or seductive a dress is on women when it really attracts the pupil.
There was an argument in the show that women should resort to the ancient Tamil clothes of sari and forbade their current clad collection of Jeans/Salwa_Kameez/ Skirts/ Nigh ties/ Shirts/ Pants and like everything under the sun except the saree.The reason quoted was that women look attractive in those apparels and it provokes the male gender to indulge in sexual harassment.
I felt like an extreme female chauvinist, what bullshit? Why would you want to do it to them, are they like slaves to society that we can puppet them to perfection to undercover the vulnerability present in a faction of the male community?. It's high time males change their attitude to look at women with a human attitude rather than look to poach them with animal instinct. The small faction with such urge would commit harassment even if a woman is wrapped like an Egyptian mummy.
Okay, I was at least convinced that we can't change the attitude of those desperate dudes by changing the dress code for women. What about the major chunk of the male community? I can vouch for something, a compressed jean and T-Shirt is more attractive than a churidhar, at least personally I find a sari to be an equally attractive apparel.
There are people who argue that a sari presents a conservative look and does not garner the attraction of male community. I tell you one thing; the only distinction is that nobody notices the skewness in the costume back at home.
Women and Men are inseparable from the society and so is process of getting attracted to each other. Of many things that attract males to the opposite gender, clothes would obviously find a rampant place in the list. There is a proverb in Tamil that goes likes this "Aal Pathi Aadai Pathi" which means Clothes and Men are two halves, it emphasises that clothes are as important as the mental personality.
Now the whole issue arises when clothes are halved, I don't know whether women gossip when a male adorns revealing clothing, I'll tell you this, it’s like the topic for the town hall / small hall for the male society. We males obviously comment on how attractive or seductive a dress is on women when it really attracts the pupil.
There was an argument in the show that women should resort to the ancient Tamil clothes of sari and forbade their current clad collection of Jeans/Salwa_Kameez/ Skirts/ Nigh ties/ Shirts/ Pants and like everything under the sun except the saree.The reason quoted was that women look attractive in those apparels and it provokes the male gender to indulge in sexual harassment.
I felt like an extreme female chauvinist, what bullshit? Why would you want to do it to them, are they like slaves to society that we can puppet them to perfection to undercover the vulnerability present in a faction of the male community?. It's high time males change their attitude to look at women with a human attitude rather than look to poach them with animal instinct. The small faction with such urge would commit harassment even if a woman is wrapped like an Egyptian mummy.
Okay, I was at least convinced that we can't change the attitude of those desperate dudes by changing the dress code for women. What about the major chunk of the male community? I can vouch for something, a compressed jean and T-Shirt is more attractive than a churidhar, at least personally I find a sari to be an equally attractive apparel.
There are people who argue that a sari presents a conservative look and does not garner the attraction of male community. I tell you one thing; the only distinction is that nobody notices the skewness in the costume back at home.
The society has changed by leaps and bounds; women are now part of the working community. It is really comfortable for them to wear churidhar/jeans/pants in the current working environment instead of consciously maneouring the sari now and then. It’s really unfair to wrap them in such clothes in a hot and humid climate like India.
I was really taken back by some of the revelations by a psychologist who was in the show
The Sari in the current form was just persuaded by the conservative Englishmen into the system. Whatever hosiery that accompanies the sari now never existed in the system. To those entire traditionalist, Do you want to still persist with the argument that sari in that form would have been less attractive compared to whatever modern dress women wear now?. The logic was fine as well, it suited the climatic conditions and for people who think they were locked up in home, they played an equal part in the agrarian society.
I was really taken back by some of the revelations by a psychologist who was in the show
The Sari in the current form was just persuaded by the conservative Englishmen into the system. Whatever hosiery that accompanies the sari now never existed in the system. To those entire traditionalist, Do you want to still persist with the argument that sari in that form would have been less attractive compared to whatever modern dress women wear now?. The logic was fine as well, it suited the climatic conditions and for people who think they were locked up in home, they played an equal part in the agrarian society.
Men are biologically designed such that, there is a tendency for men to be more sexually active than women due to the secretion of an hormone called testosterone. On an average, the adult male body produces about twenty times the amount of testosterone than an adult female's body does. This explains the fact why men talk & write more about sex than women.
There was an interesting observation as well; Men tend to recollect the visual factors about women while women recollect the feeling factors about men. If somebody needs to be held responsible for it, we need to pull the God damn architect to the court.
There is also another interesting observation, Men & Women wore similar dresses in traditional cultures.For example both the genders of Scottish wore a kind of skirt, the North Indians wore Khurthas and People wrapped a Dhoti kind of clothing in South India. Culture gave equal importance to both the genders by allowing them to embrace similar kind of clothing. Now men wear Pants and Shirts andI feel it would be fair to allow women to adorn them as well.
I certainly feel that all this huss and fuss about clothing would go away in a few years. I still remember the days when women wearing a churidhar were looked oddly by even fellow women in the eighties and now it’s a norm. I feel that the same kind of transition is happening with women wearing Pants and Jeans. There is always a stiff resistance to change and eventually comfort would take guard.
I won't say that revealing clothes or transparent clothing don't disrupt me. I feel there is a point where conscious women draw a line. They do understand the limit to which they can give the freedom to the other gender to admire their beauty. Its high time men understand the difference between admiring beauty and trying to abduct it.
Labels: attractive, clothing, sari, women
nudity rocks...everything else well it hardly matters :)
Posted by
Sudarshan |
9:28 pm
i have always found saree to be more appealing than any other form of clothing.They give an elegance to woman wearing them.
But these days things have shifted towards comfortability to carry themselves. If men cant themaselves well in dhotis so is the reason why the other gender has shifted to something that scomfortable to them.
All said and done, my vote will always goes for nudity. I feel the attire we wear no longer stands for what we are, and only nudity brings the truth in a person everything else is maya!!!
Posted by
Parthasarathy S |
2:55 am
Machan.....thaakitada...well as sudarshan said...nudity Freaking Rocks!!!!
Posted by
Jeyamurugan DG |
8:05 am