One of those Bipin Rawat baiting threads that is all too familiar. The man talks too much, and that gives pipsqueaks who ordinarily wouldn't be fit to clean his boots an opportunity to get uppity.
I agree with you,
@hellfire, that the kind of sneers that have been written by members posting is cheap stuff; but then, our idiot need not have said the things he said. Look at the third-class quality of his arguments. Knowing you personally as I do, I believe that you owe it to yourself and to your good lady, with her outstanding career profile, not to fight the wrong battles.This was a wrong battle; scummy comments made about a regressive attitude. Of course Rawat is right; life for the PBI is still far too rough to be able to accommodate women. But he is dead wrong in sealing the issue behind a blanket statement that our jawans are villagers and not able to cope with these innovations. Bullshit! they are not so backward as he thinks; he should see women driving their own two-wheelers, using mobile phones for complicated uses, and running beauty parlours for other women. Considering that a rural population of 80% has become a rural population of 60%, on a huge increase in population, considering the influence of TV and the films on society, even the isolated mental environment of potential military recruits is a debatable point.
We can't fight this battle; one side has been cheap, the other has been bone-headed. We don't need to fight this battle; women have got into every area, one after the other, and will continue. Whatever arseholes say about them, and on the other side, about those who still lack confidence in them, women - Indian women, to be specific - will continue to get more and more acceptance and responsibility and the confidence of their male peers. I hope that I don't have to remind you - you, of all people - about the eminence that women have already achieved. I certainly don't feel the need to address an incipiently hostile and mocking audience on this. It is ironic that one of the most shocking points about life in India that well-meaning Pakistani visitors notice, almost immediately, is the outstanding freedom that Indian women enjoy in daily life, and the extent to which they appropriate their equal roles in society, even at the occasional risk of encountering some of the regressive elements that our general refers to . For PDF members, male and female, but especially the females, to comment in the manner that they have is beneath comment; it is quite possible to substitute a similar sounding word for 'comment' but that would be to stoop to their levels. They are best left to sneer at what they themselves are incapable and incompetent to achieve or to encourage among their own; sneers achieve nothing. As for their comments about Rawat, I don't think we have to defend him; he is a big boy and can take care of himself.
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