Take That Woman’s Day Celebration Videos and Shove ’em Becasue Media Continues to Fail Its Women

Women in the US got voting a good half a century after Blacks were allowed to vote. Not to deride the civil right’s movements, but there are movies made every single year( 12 Years a slave, DJango Unchained, The Help, Lincoln) that remind us and the later generation of the cruelty and the unfairness that was practiced against other races. And yet, how few are the number of feminist movies? My favorite one is Thelma and Louise. The fact is, since women’s right haven’t been an organized struggle, people don’t feel the need to write about it. After much research i was able to find one of the very few movies that were made of the Women’s suffrage movement in the US. I haven’t watched it yet, but it is on my WatchList.

P.S.: The angst in the headline was provoked by a stupid patronizing video on ScoopWhoop which you don’t need to see. But if you still want to. http://www.scoopwhoop.com/entertainment/womens-day-tribute/

A Stinky Issue: No Toilet No Bride

When I was in college, a class-mate of mine once remarked that ‘privacy was a western concept’. He was justifying the act of defecating in the open, a unfortunate inevitability in most Indian villages. But what about men in cities who are struck with a great and sudden urge to pee when in the vicinity of a blank and stinky wall. Nothing can articulate how WRONG this state of affairs is, better than this world bank video does.

Vote Because You Want to, Not Because It Is The Right Thing To Do

So with the elections just around the corner, we are soon to be bombarded with ads and campaigns that, from a higher moral ground, urge us to caste our precious vote. Sure, one must vote if she or he is informed and has a definite preference towards one particular party. But must there really be a moral or legislative obligation do to so. Should we vote just to make full use our universal franchise. Must we vote because it is the ‘right’ thing to do?

But it isn’t obligatory in India to vote. And this video makes a convincing case that often problems are not solved through democratic decision-making – especially in a country like ours where political structures are far too convoluted, if not complex, for the common man to grasp. Only the knowledgeable and the well-informed are really in a suitable place to make those decisions and perhaps they should be the only ones allowed to. That said, there is no shame in not knowing what the right answers are.

The News Anchor Who Shreds Every Myth About Sports and Masculinity in Two Minutes

That’s a sports newscaster with an opinion. Take that Mr. Arnab Goswami, you tw*t. These are the issues you should get personal about and launch into a rant: not when some guest on your show responds acerbically to your guileless questioning.
Stories of the debaucherous lives of our superstars are plenty. Whoring, brawling and adultery are rampantly practiced but are never shunned, if not lauded, in dressing rooms. Probably because they are a ‘man’s place.’ All it takes to be ostracized though, is to admit that you’re gay.

“9/11 was perpetuated by People within our own government”

Go you anonymous truther. Don’t let people forget 9/11 or the farce of the investigation that followed. And it deeply effects all of American on Non-American. it’s the biggest lie of this century and as conscious, educated, thinking individuals, we demand the truth. or at least an honest investigation. And stop calling yourself ‘the greatest nation of the world.’

Don Keefer’s Delightful rant: how stupid lawyers worry we are : From Newsroom

If you haven’t’ watched newsroom, I give you one delightful reason : Don Keefer. The show suffers from much criticism and definitely not in the league of ‘Sopranos’, but it’s smart and witty and stars the underrated, heart-melt inducing Thomas Sadoski. Watch closely between 00:38 to 1.12 as he ruthlessly mocks tort laws, and silly product disclaimers. Have a laugh, and then watch the next post and prepare to be stunned.