Casteism; Can it ever be rooted out?
I just logged into YouTube to check something out. To my initial irritation, it redirected to http://in.youtube.com AND, I can't change that.
Having resigned myself, I proceeded, as I was also was curious to see if it sucked as the Indian version of Ebay does. Other than that, I had no prejudice or compunction in loading up the 'most watched' videos page.
Yes, I am trying to avert stating what I saw. I am going round in circles. Or atleast want to. But then you would too. If you had to revisit THAT.
To my pleasant surprise, unlike Ebay.in's empty pages, there were a lot of videos uploaded. There were 10-15 thumbnails of women with very curvy bodies- the layers of their fat rolling on top of each other to form multiple curves around their naked tummies. They stood in dark background rooms, with the paint peeling off; sat with their legs open on couches which looked like a dog peed on them.
And no, I was not disgusted. How could I, a grown up person, with a questioning and open outlook, have any problems with porn- even ugly, fat, made-in-a-shack porn? Nope. I could not. So, I decided to read on rather than bring out a basket to vomit into.
Ah, and what I read surpassed any other feeling that I had previously. My hats off to the unknown, but not unpublished, amateur pimp. You have managed to cater to your audience perfectly. I mean, how else to cater to the Indian audience than by making it easily sortable by caste!
Of course, a Mallu teenager would get defiled if s/he saw naked women with a Telugu caste. So, why not let the 15 year olds preserve their sanctity and jerk off to someone from their caste!
The tags and titles, were clearly defining the cast, religion or cultural ethnicity of the woman/man. Yup, as you can guess, (i.e. if you don't already know) I could choose from Telugu, Tamil, Mallu, Marwari- if your caste has been left out, don't worry, I am sure it's in there somewhere. I just found it a bit tough to go beyond the first page...
I just don't get it. All Indian woman look the same so why this level of casteism? Are they actually imagining that masturbating to another caste's women would make them defiled?
Someone! Please explain!
It is curious though. Would be interesting to get some research on it. It would be highly interesting if one could find out the type of porn watched by cultures, age groups etc. I am sure its a reflection on one's culture of what we do in the most secret of our times. And since the data of usage is mostly available on the net, a non-scientific study shouldn't be hard to bring about.
posted by EntrepreneurNI at 6:02 PM
2 Comments:
Now now, surely I expected you to do better. Castesim is not the same as communism. What you describe here is the latter.
You also seem to be certain that the motivation is a negative bias. How about a positive one? I mean, most of the matrimonial ads (be it in print or the internets) do exhibit a strong positive bias based on these things, so why not extend the same liberty to something more fleeting? Just like how people want to make babies with "one of their own", why not fantasize about "one of their own"?
And FWIW, amriki pr0n is very "race" sensitive; how else do you explain latino, ebony, asian and interracial?
I recently read "The long tail" and it talks how the internets satiates the long tail demands in this sector (like how it has in other unrelated sectors too); so it all seems logical to me
You know what? You are right!
I tried thinking of counter arguments but can't. Communism it is then! I guess these women talking dirty in their language is a better turn on.
However, it is about a negative bias everywhere and our matrimonial ads are in fact the deepest insight into our mindset. All of us would rather marry 'in their community/caste'.
At what point does it end? At what point do we stop? At 'I would rather hire from my own community' or at 'I would rather be friends with people from my community' or at 'I'd rather live my community only'?
Every decade or so some new 'community' thinks that they are better than the rest of us and so want a separate country or state. Seriously. At what point do we stop?
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