By Sanskriti Pandey:
Her people are “carrying the burden of 200 years of colonial thinking.”
Her people “have been turned into dirty animals, whose desires are carnal, unnatural, degenerate.”
What better than poetry to examine one’s wounds? Arati Warrier is 8348 miles away from ‘her people’, but imagine the emotions that swirl inside of her when an Indian Supreme Court judgement criminalises her identity, and in one clean strike, lands a blow to her choices.
On 11 December 2013, the SC quashed a 2009 judgement by a Delhi High Court that had decriminalised ‘unnatural sex‘, and reinstated the colonial law that upholds Section 377. What it also quashed in the process, was the freedom of people like Arati. If this doesn’t make you sit up, nothing will: “It is overwhelming to remember that I’m still a mistake, a tired secret. I can’t tell my parents about this girl I know, and how beautiful her lips are. So instead, I whisper into my pillow over and over. I can’t explain to my mother that how her casual homophobia is ripping holes in all of my sweaters, and I am always shivering.”
Watch this powerful and emotionally-packed performance as she puts into poetry what being gay in the Indian society feels like.
B
When a man and a woman get married, they provide a balance to their families and complete each other. This is impossible with homosexual ‘relationships’. Of course, self-righteous supporters of homosexuality will go around hurling abuses at whoever doesn’t agree with them. Homosexuals cannot procreate, so they can never have their own children. If they adopt, their children will either have two dads or two moms. Lesbians can never satisfy their sexual desire by rubbing into each others vagina while gays indulge in anal sex – the anus is not designed for penile penetration. I have nothing against homosexuals, but it is natural to question the unnatural. In movies, blogs, and the media, homosexuality is being ‘normalised’ so that we get used to it.
“Heterosexual intercourse is the pure, formalized expression of contempt for women’s bodies.” – Andrea Dworkin
“Feminism is the theory, lesbianism is the practice.” – Ti-Grace Atkinson
I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate – Rita Mae Brown
“When a woman reaches orgasm with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression.” – Sheila Jeffrys
“All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.” – Catherine MacKinnon
Cees Tompot
Sir, if you did a bit of reading instead of just judging, you would know that homosexuality is a natural thing. It is not a mental disease. It is just the result of a brain layout that makes some homosexuals or transgender and most heterosexual. Is that a reason to pass these judgments that must be very hurtfull for these fellow human beings? Please use that non sex related part of your brain and THINK before you judge.
General Muffin
By your logic, procreation is the ultimate goal of all relationships? Then a sterile man/woman has no right to ever get married, right? Also, good job analysing a relationship only by the physical parameters. Sexual intercourse happens in the brain, not the groin.
TheSeeker
Hey, as long as they’re not threatening you, affecting you, chill the hell out. What do you think of homosexuality anyways? A disease? (I am genuinely curious)
areem
=> When a man and a woman get married, they provide a balance to their families and complete each other.
No one can complete another person, they have to be complete from within to begin with. Stating it’s balanced has no supporting point, its just an assumption, or what people hope for in a marriage.
=> Homosexuals cannot procreate, so they can never have their own children.
There are sterile men/women, who get married. Should a law be passed against them too??
=>If they adopt, their children will either have two dads or two moms.
i guess being a single parent is such a shame then considering two dads or two moms as such a bad thing.
=> Lesbians can never satisfy their sexual desire by rubbing into each others vagina while gays indulge in anal sex
Of all the huddles they have to face, you worried about their lack of sexual pleasure?? Its better not to comment on what one have’t experienced and to drawing false conclusion.
=>I have nothing against homosexuals, but it is natural to question the unnatural.
homosexuality is nothing new, in East Asia same-sex love has been referred to since the earliest recorded history and in ancient Greece it was a socially acknowledged relationship.
Homosexual behavior has been documented in about 500 species ranging from primates to gut worms.
Its definitely not for a person, or a community to decide what is unnatural and natural.
Divyansh
Dear, homosexuality is not a disease or a disorder of body. It’s just another kind of attraction. You need to understand it instead of judging it. For example, what would’ve happened if the humanity judged fire? We wouldn’t be where we are now. We accepted it, used it effectively, and humankind prospered.
N
What a powerful piece!
More strength to the LGBTQ community in India and all across the world.
Sanskriti Pandey
1. ‘Sex’ is not the same thing as penetration. A little reading, and you’ll know what I’m talking about.
2. You’re basing your arguments on a foundational end point – that of marriage and procreation. Who ever said that marriage and procreation is ‘natural’ behaviour? It’s popular, perhaps. It’s conventional, perhaps. But ‘natural’? Subjective.
3. One cannot ‘normalise’ what is already normal. Enough said.
Sanskriti Pandey
This was for B.
B
Homosexuals cannot procreate, so they can never have their own children – That is unnatural. And if they adopt, their children will either have two dads or two moms – That is unnatural. Gays can only satisfy their sexual desire through anal sex – That is unnatural. (I am sure you don’t need me to tell you that the anus is not designed for penile penetration).
Deepika
This. So powerful. Goose bumps galore.