Normalisation isn't a normal thing!
Oftentimes we'll tend to normalize everything, and then comes an underestimated disaster. Honest to say, we're just naive but won't ever admit it. Just take an example.
A couple of days ago, I came across a troll on Instagram about the epic Malayalam spinoff movie Drishyam 2. Two people stand and one among them asks other: "What have you learnt from #Drishyam2 ?"
The second one says, light heartedly: " We can escape from a crime no matter how heinous it is! "
"Ey it's not that!" The first one says, and continues: "Don't share anything with your wife."
Primarily it'll be a simple joke. But just think again. I just recalled how Malala Yousufsai proudly showed her father as an efficient example against simple domestic patriarchy. She, somewhere in her autobiography 'I am Malala', says that normal Pak men consider their wives to be senseless or immature. Talking/discussing something with them was thus a foolish thing. But Mr Ziauddin Yousufsai and Mrs Tor Pekai were setting an example of divergence. Nothing could be "Okay!" with Ziauddin unless he discussed and agreed it with Pekai. Egalitarianism was, for him, a necessity, for he grew up eating eggs and kheer as much as his stomach could carry when his sisters were made satisfied with tidbits.
Now here again comes the Drishyam thing. I just felt the Yousufsai story so relatable to it and that was why I just devoted a whole paragraph for the beautiful comparison. Yet, quite normal, many will say: "Hey girl, our wives are like that and we felt it so close to our heart๐คฃ!" Yes, I too agree that there are many women who are the social media among their folks. But saying it in a general sense will also be like typifying the whole womankind. Am I right?
Everything has its pros and cons. But we just ignore it and make harsh remarks. Heterogeneity is everywhere. What one thinks right will be an immature thing for another. So accommodation is the soul of universal harmony. Normalisation, of course, is a dangerous thing but can't we normalize things which are like ' the need of the hour '?
Considering the transformation of people across years yet the unchanging role of visual media, nobody can defy that they have a great deal in this. The first reason for this remark will be the daily exposure people receive from them. A typical day will go without an exercise or activity but can't ever be the same with Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and so on. Media are thus a big element in shaping one's culture, outlook or whatever you people coin for it. The whole course of the global life is incomplete without this artery.
But it's not only the deal of media. People, you and I, too have a role. And are born and cemented immoral institutions like homophobia, transphobia, patriarchy and high type stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination.
So normalisation isn't a normal thing. I'm,as someone will say, an advocate of Chaos theory
For me , such an idea seemed so real, and was born a new analysis based on it. So let's learn to normalize good things.
This is, I admit, an incomplete remark. Yeah, I jotted down whatever popped up on my mind.
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