Three smug men

Three smug men

           Channel surfing, caught an episode of the Auditions for MTV ‘Roadies’.

Actually,  am totally unaware of what roadies show is all about, I think its something about men and women bikers, and the various tasks(for want of a better word) they perform while on the road, and the one by one, participants keep tumbling down like green bottles till the last one left standing wins.. Apparently, it’s a craze with the youth of the nation, but my interest in this particular program perked up only when one Ashutosh Something won another reality show ,the big boss thing, and thats how I got to know that his initial claim to fame was winning the roadies show. (So, in a way, it was Ashutosh who kinda gave the 15 minutes  fame to the Roadies show, and not the other way round, as those three smug men would want the whole nation to believe. :P) 

Two brown bald men with goatees, and one Shankar Mahadevan look-alike. The judges in teh audition.

All three grilling a nose ringed chin pierced young girl.  This seems fun, I thought with glee. The discomfiture of the young bimbo was a treat, exactly the way,watching somebody slip over the proverbial banana peel, is. They booed her for being a proud vain childish bimbo. She thought her audition went well!

          I wait with bated breath, as they start tearing the next participant apart.  The three men apparently want to know her opinion on skimpily dressed women in pubs, and whether the girls have the right to dress skimpily in pubs  or molesters have the right to molest them. Our roadie  girl aspirant seemed to be of the opinion that dressing should always be modest, and never provocative.

         And before I knew it, the three thirty something guys were down the throat of the twenty something girl. The till then seemingly funny men are now perfectly menacing. "Its mentality like yours that creates molesters, all three holler at her, all at the same time, in the same breathe. She is slightly flummoxed, tries bravely to make the guys see her point, but the men are unrelenting. So, do u mean women should wear burkhas in pubs, they demand, and if somebody is dressed in a bikini, she is asking for it? Everybody has a right to dress the way the want..they emphasis, there is something known as dignity of dressing .....How can u even say such a thing, being a woman and all that, u know its women like u who make molesters out of decent guys like us...

Somehow I now find the boorishness offending. That is, I m offended for the participant. More than the questions, it’s the attitude of the smug men, that’s offending.

sorry goatees,  i simply don't buy that argument that its people like her and thoughts like hers that create molesters.. you cant walk away from the responsibility of not becoming molesters just because somewomen think that all women should be modestly dressed always. Not because their thinking is right, but because your absolving yourself of the blame is at fault. There should be more motivation for not becoming a molester than that. If you think women should be able to throw away the shackles of years of unprogressive up-bringing  and conservative social norms just like that on your show, then how difficult should it be for you to not  verbally attack women who  somehow aren’t able to rise above thinking that women who dress indecently should be attacked…after all, in the final reckoning , isn’t it the same prejudice?

       Or is it, that the men seem to think that being on the other side of the table, gives them the right to browbeat the participants and beat up their self esteem to pulp. Or do they justify their boorish behavior with the argument that the participants are auditioning for a tough road ride and should be tough people. By tough, do they mean tougher than them? If so, then doesn’t it mean that the participants are more qualified in toughness, than those three smug men, and hence logically should be on the other side of the table? Does the show's format give the participants an equal and complete opportunity to be boorish to the smug men too? If not, then  where does that leave our three smug men? sissies?

I want to ask a few smug questions of my own to the smug guys...

so will it still be okay if your mom or kid sisters go to pubs in bikinis when they know that most of the guys would be ogling and touching themselves at the expense of their kid sisters? Or would they be totally supportive,  if the said females take the freedom to dress too far and start walking naked on the streets? would they still talk of dignity of dressing( or undressing for that matter) Where would the smug guys draw the line?  in short, can they walk the talk? I dont think they would. After all in their eyes, its only a road show audition. But then why the big show of political correctness in such a politically incorrect manner?

I call it quits, I stop watching the show.

PS.  When inspite of myself i catch some other episode, some other day ...i learn that the bimbette has been selected, cause the judges found her proud, childish, a bimbo and yet interesting!  well, NOW i  know what the show is all about! :P