From: akn8257@ritvax.isc.rit.edu ( Arun )
Subject: Re: Women... A Selfish, Narrow-minded Breed? (Ask Cho)
Reply-To: akn8257@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:08:52 GMT

In article <19077.2b0a3d11@ecs.umass.edu>, vigneswa@ecs.umass.edu writes:
>
>	In any place, women are less thankful than men.  We speak, read 
>and write about the tolerance, affection(or kindness), sacrifice etc of
>women.  However, one thing  would be very  obvious when we  think about
>those with reality.  
>
>	All good  characters of women are confined  within a very small
>circle, the family. Just outside of the circle, even as far as the next
>door, all those things disappear.  A mother would happily sacrifice for
>her son, which a father wouldn't even consider.  But, a women would not
>help her friend even as much as one fourth a man would do to his.  Most
>of the women, who work their life out for their families, would be hesi-
>tant to do so, if they find out that  what they do is helping others as
>well.  Women create a small world around  themselves with, 'my husband',
>'my father', 'my son' and 'my home'.  They consider  the above as their 
>own possession and live within that world, and are ready to do anything
>for that world.  It is not normal  for a woman to  come out to help for
>someone else's life. Most of the women, when compared with men, are not
>as much as thankful.
>
>	There may be some exceptional women.....
>
>+++++++++++++++++++++++++
> - Cho

This is one of the most prejudiced, sterotyping statements by Cho. I even 
noticed him speaking some male-chauvinistic dialogues in his drama 
'Vande Madaram' but I thought it is the opinion of the character not
his. Even good writers like Sujata and Jayaganthan show this kind of
attitude in their stories.                                                  

IMO, basically women are no different than men socially, if there is
any difference that is because of their less exposure to outside world
and the way of their upbringing. There is a heck of a lot of difference
in our society and familes treating women and men.

>
>
>	During an e-mail discussion, a friend of  mine had this to say
>about Cho.... "Cho created an 'intellectual' image among middle  class
>Tamil masses.  Since we do not  have a popular  social  and  political 
>critic, worth mentioning in Tamil Nadu, this rightist mediocre is held
>in high esteem.  Mediocracy is a common  phenomenon in every aspect of
>TN society and he represents this category.  But,  this hypocrite, who
>cries big  about many things would  never offer a page to  discuss the
>sufferings  of the  untouchables and other  minorities, who  have been
>oppressed for few millennia.  Still Mr VP Singh is one of his favorite
>targets.  Only crime VP Singh committed was to endorse and promote the
>reservation system."
>

I don't think so, Cho had been opposing V.P Singh a lot earlier than
the Mandal Commision was even considered. Anybody who is a regular reader 
of Thuqlak would know this. Or else check the old issues.

- Arun.

>***
>The floor is open for comments now.
>
>Vicky:
>UMass, Nov 18
Organization: Senior, Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA