being ‘fair’ in life…
June 26, 2009
Rummaging through the matrmonial columns of an esteemed daily- it is ubiquitous to find grooms preferring “fair-complexioned” bride as a potential life partner. The innumerous face packs offered in the beauty parlour seem to have one goal- improving the skin complexion.Have you ever seen any top commercial actress being dark? (Bipasha Basu is wheatish, not black please). How about having a pitch-black boyfriend for a change? Funny, isn’t it- that all of us yearn for keeping our hair black and our skin white. My friends don’t think its funny, it’s the way it should be…(apparently).
Why is it that the north indians condescend the south-indians? Why is it that the good looking are always addressed as fair in literature? Why is it that ‘being fair’ considered as a trustable parameter for deciding the relation? I am bemused.
Is ‘fair’ a fair criteria?
September 2, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Infact, a friend of mine shamelessly writes in his orkut profile that the ideal match would be someone who “must’ be fair. Lol. How does color of the skin determine the shade of mind? People have such wonderfully constructed ideas, that there seem to be no slightest trace of logic.After all, whoever said it- beauty and brains really don’t seem to go together these days.