Control, yaar
If it were up to few adults, we would be considered a nation of sex crazed children waiting to jump our classmates’ and indulge in some heavy petting if not outright sexual congress. Sexual congress? yeah! such archaic terms suit the news I am about to reveal. Two schools in Mumbai (yup, not some mofussil conservative heartland school, if that would indeed justify such news) issued notices this week asking girls and boys studying there not to touch or hug members of the opposite sex. You heard that right, my friends. Now the students of Vibgyor School and Jamnabai Nursery School are forbidden from indulging in the sensation of touch with their classmates from the opposite sex. If you do, a special device embedded in each student shall detect the different chromosome and emit a mind-numbing electric shock. Ok! I made up that last sentence but given the possible motivations of such a rule, the punishment cannot be ruled out for repeat offenders, right?
Like I said, if I would rant on every moral policing issue in Indian society today, you would see this blog updated more frequently. Bloggers in search of a niche topic, I hope you are listening.
PS. Image not from the schools in question.
Update: Now it seems like schools in United States are truly following the Indian example and wondering how the heck we manage to produce so many engineers and doctors. A middle school in Fairfax County, Virginia seems to think it is because boys do not touch girls and vice versa. The no-physical-contact rule seems to be more harshly enforced than the no-evolution-teaching rule in Kansas:
She has seen a poke escalate into a fight and a handshake that is a gang sign. Some students — and these are friends — play “bloody knuckles,” which involves slamming their knuckles together as hard as they can.
What? You haven’t heard of the deadly poke…pssst….don’t walk seven steps after you have been poked. And please don’t poke me on Facebook, I don’t know how to respond and no, I’ll not poke back. Now even Darwin wouldn’t approve of the no-touching rule. Let the touching begin and only the touchiest shall survive.
“Control, yaar” [Short URL: http://www.ipatrix.com/?p=2084] was published Friday, June 15th, 2007 at 2:42 pm by Patrix, filed under Education, India, Society Culture, United States, and tagged as Education, India, moral police, Mumbai, schools, United States. Both comments and linkbacks are closed.
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WTF! So now we instill in kids guilt about harmless touch and then they grow up to be fcuked up adults.. and no one is complaing about this?
3 years ago replySakshi, apparently not! Even the parents seem to actually think this is a good idea. Obvious retort from those in favor of the ban – “what? you want girls and boys to touch each other?”
3 years ago replySo, its OK for girls to touch each other ? Oh lordy lord !! :)
3 years ago replybloghopper, Heh. Imagine if such a ban was proposed in American schools, conservatives would scream – promoting homosexuality :)
3 years ago replyWell, for one there is India Uncut. There are quite a few bloggers who rant regularly against moral policing and suchlike. :)
3 years ago replyBut imagine the possibilities :) – These kids who can’t touch members of opposite sex shall grow up touching members of same sex – hence becoming gays or lesbians. Thus no marriage, no kids, no population explosion!!
Finally a school devises a method to control our population – har har!!
:)
S
3 years ago replyPiker, well IU is a collection of eclectic links not necessarily just moral policing. I meant a complete dedicated blog for policing the moral police. There would be enough material.
Supremus, Ah-ha! you never know it might be just the tactic that was missed by Sanjay Gandhi.
3 years ago replyHey, its even “safe and orderly” – according to this, and thats not from India :D
3 years ago replyRk, I read that story yesterday and boy! was I surprised to see similar controlling tendencies out here. The good thing is that at least it is not an Indian thing.
3 years ago reply