Wednesday, February 11, 2009

What if .....


I know its been loooong since I blogged ,reasons being varied ones but yesterday came a statement and here comes the entry :D
"Hey my nanny says I look like Aishwarya Rai 'Bacchhan ' ....this is the best comment i have ever recieved "and loads more you keep hearing when you are out window-shopping (i think now i can put any compulsive shopaholoic to shame , hail ORACLE !!! )....Damn !!! WHAT IF u r no Angelina Jolie .....I believe the normal-girl-next-door is better than Angelina Jolie, Lindsay Lohan or the size zero Kareena Kapoor or whoever you think is breathtakingly beautiful or attractive.
I don’t know why women seek breast augmentation, liposuction, tummy tucks and other surgeries in their eternal quest for perfection. Okay, I confess, I would love to get my hair straightening (hair-rebonding) done once they grow long... but I would never go under the knife to transform the way I look. I don’t ever starve myself or deprive myself whenever I get those timely chocolate or ice-cream pangs/hunger pangs.
The narcissistic good looks fixation, the fair skin fixation ......this reminds me of “Use a bar of soap to wash away the dark skin that's keeping men from flocking.”- A fair friend’s advice to her dusky friend.
“Look beautiful. Here’s how you can lighten your skin tone,"- screams a silly Television commercial.
‘Fair & Lovely’ vows to transform an ugly duckling into a beautiful swan! – WTF!!!Remember that disgusting ad where a dark-complexioned girl dreams to be an airhostess? She is cursed by her parents for being a girl; a dark girl at that! Mademoiselle uses a fairness cream, and, lo and behold! There she is, a girl transformed with fair complexion, a smartly dressed airhostess who takes her parents to a swanky hotel for a grand dinner.... f*** Why are we Indians obsessed with fair skin? I am yet to read a matrimonial ad that says: “Dusky and Lovely”, “Dusky and Beautiful”, “Wanted a dusky, good looking bride.”Most people everywhere place a high premium on good looks; and good looks = fair, or so it seems. I don’t understand why sundar (beautiful) is synonymous with gori-chitti(fair).This mindset is apalling.

Then comes the size zero obsession, the cosmetic surgery makeover culture, shapely derrieres and heaving bosoms, the anorexic syndrome, "the quest for perfection…"
I want to know the importance of good looks! Does it guarantee professional success? Does it guarantee matrimonial bliss? A tall-dark-handsome husband? A hot date? Is physical perfection equal to happiness/confidence?Do good looking women have it easier than their not-so-great-looking female counterparts at work? Do women feel inadequate because they are not attractive? Who decides what’s ‘beautiful’ and what’s ‘ugly’?.I personally believe that a person's beauty is not just the external one its how one feels /herself ,its about one's persona ,the mental and spiritual beauty adding to the confidence ,its about feeling beautiful which is important and i really quantify confident people as one of the most beautiful but people think differently and the number of plastic surgeries being performed has sky-rocketed in recent years. A wide cross-section of celebrities have confessed to altering some aspect of their appearance through cosmetic surgery.
Do men like girly women ?
Do men like dumb women?
Do men prefer plain Jane ove glamorous bombshell ?
Do men like Ugly Betty ?
Do men like hot women ?
Do men like a homely women who would do their laundry and othe household chores ?
Do men really care what's on the outside ?
Do men prefer intelligence over inches ?
Umm ....What do men really want?
(I guess the male brigade like their women to be curvy and wholesome.)
So are you doomed if you’re not Angelina Jolie? Are you doomed if you’re not voluptuous? How can you boost your career with cosmetic surgery? FYI, even good looking celebrities have delivered Box Office debacles!
I believe women should refrain from -discussing their weight,complaining/ nagging,self-pity,loud make-up and jealousy of course! As one of my friends status read sometime ago girls should be classy not crazy :P
But I know for a fact that most men are suckers for beautiful women who can take their breath away ....recently my friend confessed that he was on airport and he couldn't help himself from taking his eyes off a female...lost he almost forgot that he was to fly (I always doubted him ,jeez ...hez straight :P)
Beautiful women always steal the thunder from intelligent women, okay, at least initially! They grab more eyeballs. They become the cynosure of all eyes when they saunter into a party.
Is this TRUE?
The less you care about how physically attractive you are to a man, the more a man will want you in his life.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is not about being physically attractive at all!! It does matter to a certain extent,yes,don't girls look for the same in men,your post sounds a bit prejudiced,analogy being women want equal status everywhere but will still push for 33% reservation!!

Neha said...

Yeah agreed that girls too may have fantasies bt then my post is not prejudiced just reflects the sheer truth ....and analogous to 33% thingie I can quote about the injustices done to women the recent being the molestation by shri ram sena !!!!

Anonymous said...

Yes, I agree that outward pulchritude is not everything, but what if you discover the inner self is as dark as the outside one? There are both examples in life. Pretty women on one hand can be prettier inside too, and opposite too. Same with not so prettier ones. I firmly agree that nature, politeness, ethics and morality are the most important factors of judging anyone, be it a man or a woman. So the very question of discrimination among women does not arise on the basis of physical beauty. I have seen both examples in life, prettier women(girls :-) ) being prettier inside, and the extreme case too. Anyway, nice post, but try to avoid using f-words to maintain the sanctity of your blog :-)

Neha said...

Yeah i am not against the prettier girls if the post sounded like that , was just a reflection that physical appearances r not the ONLY thing which a few probably don't understand and hence go 4 dis dat ...
About the usage of the f*** word i would say it was just colloquial usage ....and yeah in future will take care of that too

Pratik Maheshwari said...

“Dusky and Lovely”, “Dusky and Beautiful”, “Wanted a dusky, good looking bride."
this was a gud thought..
girls..ya beauty is secondary..most of d ppl luk out for "beautiful" girls..but dats jst sm sort of fun in young days..at a later stage it is sensibilty, understandin etc.. which everyone searches for..b it a guy or a girl..
BOL for future posts...

Neha said...

hey prateek , thanks :)

KamiyaMotwani said...

yep :) ...they shuld b classy nt crazy... well written !!!..its after all confidence that matters !!