"Amul babies are fit, strong and focussed. (They) symbolize white revolution, which brought milk to the masses.
- Shashi Tharoor
This comment is being considered humorous because unlike our other Congress netas he has not made a fuss over Kerala chief minister V S Achutanandan's statement about Rahul Gandhi being an Amul baby. A few points:
*Rahul asked the voters if they wanted a 90-year-old man at the end of the tenure. That was offensive to a senior leader.
*The Amul baby is an advertising symbol and has nothing to do with the masses. What is the baby 'focused' on anyway?
*The white revolution was the result of the cooperative movement in Anand, Gujarat. Those masses did not think of utterly butterly stuff. I guess they really did not want to butter up anyone, and did not even know if their bread would be buttered, forget on which side.
We miss straightforward old-fashioned sycophancy.
Incidentally, Narendra Modi has inadvertently got the thumbs up for a fit and strong
revolution in his backyard. He did not start it, we know, but Amul is a Gujarat story.
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"The day is not far when there will be no girls to marry and we will all become gays."
- Farooq Abdullah on the declining female population
Is the primary role of women to be male-centric? Unless the minister lives in some la-la-land, girls do grow up to do other things. This remark is especially absurd because procreation has pushed the woman into a situation where, although she is the conceiver, she cannot decide whether she can give birth and if she does then she has no choice but to fall in line with the desire for a male offspring, even watching and participating in the ritual of killing the girl child.
Next we come to the minister's comment about gays. Homosexuality is not the consequence of lack of females. Using his logic one may say that since there are more men, women will become promiscuous and we will be headed towards a matrilineal society.
The skewed sex ratio should be seen from the female perspective and not about what will happen to the poor men.
For starters, they can grow up. Or is the Amul baby idea catching on?
- Shashi Tharoor
This comment is being considered humorous because unlike our other Congress netas he has not made a fuss over Kerala chief minister V S Achutanandan's statement about Rahul Gandhi being an Amul baby. A few points:
*Rahul asked the voters if they wanted a 90-year-old man at the end of the tenure. That was offensive to a senior leader.
*The Amul baby is an advertising symbol and has nothing to do with the masses. What is the baby 'focused' on anyway?
*The white revolution was the result of the cooperative movement in Anand, Gujarat. Those masses did not think of utterly butterly stuff. I guess they really did not want to butter up anyone, and did not even know if their bread would be buttered, forget on which side.
We miss straightforward old-fashioned sycophancy.
Incidentally, Narendra Modi has inadvertently got the thumbs up for a fit and strong
revolution in his backyard. He did not start it, we know, but Amul is a Gujarat story.
- - -
"The day is not far when there will be no girls to marry and we will all become gays."
- Farooq Abdullah on the declining female population
Is the primary role of women to be male-centric? Unless the minister lives in some la-la-land, girls do grow up to do other things. This remark is especially absurd because procreation has pushed the woman into a situation where, although she is the conceiver, she cannot decide whether she can give birth and if she does then she has no choice but to fall in line with the desire for a male offspring, even watching and participating in the ritual of killing the girl child.
Next we come to the minister's comment about gays. Homosexuality is not the consequence of lack of females. Using his logic one may say that since there are more men, women will become promiscuous and we will be headed towards a matrilineal society.
The skewed sex ratio should be seen from the female perspective and not about what will happen to the poor men.
For starters, they can grow up. Or is the Amul baby idea catching on?
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