Dear Fellow Tambrams
Please do not use the phrase 'I am cool' cos how much ever you try you cant be totally cool. Even if by some strangest chance you are a bit casual than usual, I can bet that you would have been a perfect nerd at some part of your life. The vendakkais and thayir satham that run in our veins are big repellents for 'cool factor'.
You can either be a vegetarian or non vegetarian; cannot be a vegetarian who eats cakes with eggs, or eggs but not chicken, chicken but not fish. Still, you want to call yourself a vegetarian please do so, but atleast do not bore others with your deductive reasoning for the same.
Whiskey and beer are bitter and it is not Rukku paatti's thirukkanamathu to be sweet. Satisfy your throat with wine and 'vodka with fanta' instead.
And dear YO! Cool Brahmin Parents,
Ur little daughter wriggle in seat when a 'sassy step' of film song is shown in TV. She gives a disgusted look when others 'bra' strap is seen. That is all the gender conscience you could develop in your daughter. You use same parenting strategies that you use for girls, in growing up your boys too. Your boys can never be daring, adventurous, cool, smart but only 'chamaththu'. They can never be dumb, weird, strange, challenging, different, breathtaking cos what you can produce in end are stereotypes - who goes to l.k.g. in order to get good job when he is 30 years, after his P.hd.
Let's be clear - going out to a restaurant to have north indian thali, with a group of friends (ofcourse after finishing the college school/ homework) doesn't make your son/ daughter a 'rowdie', 'porki', 'vaalu' or 'cool' that you have to shiver in your pants and get worried about his/her rank in final exam.
(to be continued ...)
Please do not use the phrase 'I am cool' cos how much ever you try you cant be totally cool. Even if by some strangest chance you are a bit casual than usual, I can bet that you would have been a perfect nerd at some part of your life. The vendakkais and thayir satham that run in our veins are big repellents for 'cool factor'.
You can either be a vegetarian or non vegetarian; cannot be a vegetarian who eats cakes with eggs, or eggs but not chicken, chicken but not fish. Still, you want to call yourself a vegetarian please do so, but atleast do not bore others with your deductive reasoning for the same.
Whiskey and beer are bitter and it is not Rukku paatti's thirukkanamathu to be sweet. Satisfy your throat with wine and 'vodka with fanta' instead.
And dear YO! Cool Brahmin Parents,
Ur little daughter wriggle in seat when a 'sassy step' of film song is shown in TV. She gives a disgusted look when others 'bra' strap is seen. That is all the gender conscience you could develop in your daughter. You use same parenting strategies that you use for girls, in growing up your boys too. Your boys can never be daring, adventurous, cool, smart but only 'chamaththu'. They can never be dumb, weird, strange, challenging, different, breathtaking cos what you can produce in end are stereotypes - who goes to l.k.g. in order to get good job when he is 30 years, after his P.hd.
Let's be clear - going out to a restaurant to have north indian thali, with a group of friends (ofcourse after finishing the college school/ homework) doesn't make your son/ daughter a 'rowdie', 'porki', 'vaalu' or 'cool' that you have to shiver in your pants and get worried about his/her rank in final exam.
(to be continued ...)