{"id":4457,"date":"2007-05-22T12:25:40","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T17:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=4457"},"modified":"2007-05-22T10:16:50","modified_gmt":"2007-05-22T15:16:50","slug":"dont_want_no_da_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/22\/dont_want_no_da_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Want No Dark, Dark Man…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Avishkar and several other mutineers sent in a story tip from Reuters<\/a> about a rather unusual wedding complication, so I realized I better post it ASAP, lest I see it in my inbox yet yanother time. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n

When it came to our color-obsessed culture, I thought it was the girl\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/em> complexion which mattered. I guess turnabout is<\/a> fair play. Sort of.<\/p>\n\n

Turned down for marriage due to his dark complexion, an Indian man staged a hunger strike outside his would be bride’s house for two days before she finally relented, an official said Saturday<\/strong>.<\/blockquote>\n\n

Didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t he know they make fairness creams<\/a> for the new, metrosexual, dark brown man?<\/p>\n\n

Saral Prasad, the 23-year-old groom in eastern Bihar state, said he would not budge from the girl’s village home after she refused to marry him earlier this week in an arranged marriage because he was too dark.<\/blockquote>\n\n
Rajani, 19, changed her mind after two days and the couple got married<\/strong>, Arun Kumar Mishra, a village council official said.<\/blockquote>\n\n
“We were all taken by surprise but Rajani was finally moved by the gesture of the young man and married him,” Mishra said.<\/blockquote>\n\n

Rajani was not<\/u> quoted as saying, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I just want everyone to shut up and go away already, for Pinter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sake<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n\n

Most Indian women, especially those in rural areas, often have no choice in matters of marriage, and are coerced into it by relatives and parents<\/strong>.<\/blockquote>\n\n

Yes, of course..we Indian women have no choice with regards to anything and are coerced in to everything<\/em> we do. Just this past Saturday, at the meetup, I was coerced in to drinking my Madras coffee later than I wanted to, because our poor waiter was so overwhelmed with 26 people ordering at once, he forget that I asked for it. Thrice. Obviously his being an Indian male was why he oppressed me by not sating my caffeine fix. :p And yes, yes…the meetup write-up…it is coming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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