My fellow writer and educator, Chintan Girish Modi, invited me for a #genderpeacechat he was moderating on Twitter. We started discussing male stereotypes and it led me to jog down memory lane to pull out interesting things I have heard through all these years about South Asian men:
- Why do all Indian men wear moustaches?
- Indian men are lecherous and rude
- Pakistani men are tall and fair
- If he's Afghan he must be good-looking
- Gujarati men are pansy
- Most Indian men are mamma's boys
- Sri Lankan men have large eyes. Look at Muralitharan when he bowls
- South Asian men are not athletic
- Indian men have round bellies
- What do you think of an Afghan man?
- Is it safe to talk to Afghan men?
- If he's Pakistani, he has to like cricket
- Bengali men are lazy
- Punjabi men are so loud
- South Asian men can't hold their drink
- If he's Muslim, he has to be very conservative
- Indian men don't cook
- In our college, there were males and non-males
- IT guy will be boring
- If he's good-looking, he must be gay
- He's fashion-conscious, he must be gay
- How does he manage to patao (loosely, attract) so many girls?
- Pakistani men are hot
- He's too fair. He hardly looks like a South Indian
- These guys from the North East look very smart and dress better
- White people have chest hair too but because it's blonde it doesn't show and they needn't wax. Indian men have dark chest hair. They need to wax.
- Never trust a man without chest hair
- He doesn't have chest hair, he's effeminate
- Boys mature slowly so you need a man at least five years older than you to match your wavelength
- Bengali men are so opinionated
- Indian men have big egos
- Bengali men don't dance
- Bengali men know their music and books
- Gujarati men don't join the army. It's not our tradition
- If he's Sardar, he must drink a lot
- Tamil boys are good at maths
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