Tamil Music Television

Tonight I was fortunate enough to be completely appalled by one music video. If you think MTV and VH1 are negative affecting the minds of the youth then you have no idea what the Indian youths are being subjected to. I was doing my routine activities after cooking lunch with a couple students, drinking cool water, painting toe nails, talking about the hot weather when a music video began that was more obscene that I could have imagined. The video began showing a bus full of students going or coming to school. The girls were in pink plaid with braided pigtails tied up in white ribbons and the boys were wearing button down shirts in dusty blue. All the students were in uniform looking neat and clean. After the initial scene was represented the camera zoomed in on two students, one boy and one girl. The two people were staring into each others eyes more intensely that any boy and any girl have started at each other in history... except maybe Romeo and Juliet. The camera zoomed in on all eye twitches and lip quivers instigating the thought process that these two students were going through. They stared at each other while everyone else was concerned with their own business going about like normal students. Mind you this was supposed to be a group of high school kids. The girl, was definitely not a girl and was most likely a woman around 21 years old and the drooling boy was at least 35. It is typical here to marry a man much older in traditional arranged marriages, but these actors were supposed to be students. If someone bumped into either the boy or girl you could feel sexy thoughts pounding out of the tv. If the bus jerked or went over a pot hole or speed bump the girl fell into the boy strategically having her head go into the crevice of her neck. There were so many close ups, the boy would sneakily touch the girls shirt, the girl would brush up against him. Without even opening their mouths, only the lip quivers were apparent. I have to question why girls are becoming pregnant and their lovers are going off and killing them and their unborn children. Why are there newspaper articles where young people run off wanting to have a love marriage and their own parents go after them and kill them? If all the people in villages are getting free televisions from the government and sitting around during and after dinner watching music videos and soap operas no wonder people are trying to live the fantasy life. Only after being abused by your husband, getting aids and joining a support group will any women leave their families. The male student on the bus would ruin the girls reputation, destroy respect for her in her village and worst of all impregnate her out of wedlock tarnishing the whole family. But for the boy student even after these actions have been committed, even after going before the village court, even after his own parents reprimand the girl and her family, he will only have to pay a fine of $3 or $4 dollars to the village council. Why is it that when they two students were staring so deeply into each others eyes it is always the girl whose eyes first look toward the ground? Because the women are pushed down in all ways, even though the men will take the women to bed with them they won't respect them. Even though the women cook and clean and cater to all the men's needs the men won't respect them. I would like to create one Indian holiday opposite from Women's Day that is already celebrated here where the women actually leave the house eat at restaurants and relax. Where the husbands all have someone like a British Nanny scold them and even beat them if necessary. I'm waiting for this day to come.