I wonder if the art of Douchebaggery was born in my country of birth-India?!
Amongst the million minor d-bag activities carried on by certain Indian men of the creepy kind, like imperial arrogance, women-must-stay-at-home-and-raise-kids attitude, the one that bothers me the most is- Adding random women on social networks! These are a-holes who somehow equate the act of pressing the “Add” button with an open invitation to virtual fapping.
Only people who are in my Friends’ networks can add me on Facebook, even then I find myself ignoring requests from at-least 1 d-bag a month. Facebook isn’t even a problem, the real problem is Google Plus. Just last week, I spent about 30 minutes blocking these creepsters who had added me to their circle on Plus. For kicks, I googled this issue and turns out, a whole LOT of people are irritated and feel harassed by Indian men online.
Growing up in a country where eve-teasing is the Indian man’s birth right and obsession with sex gets out of control when it starts leaking from the spaces between closed doors, I shouldn’t be taken aback by this level of douchebaggery but this time around, I want to seriously analyse this creep level mentality.
I follow quite a few celebrities on Facebook and have often noticed, everytime the celeb makes a public post, there’s a large number of Indian trolls writing about their twisted porn fantasies especially with white women, in Indian languages. I don’t mean to say people from other countries aren’t perverted but Indians are disturbingly vocal and they are everywhere! Brilliant living examples of how sick the human mind can become when confidence gets a boost by hiding behind a computer screen.
A little research (even though Wikipedia is down today, protesting SOPA), showed me that the number of Indian male users has risen considerably over the past few years with the advent of Internet in villages. Fair enough, this explains why none of these guys who add you can put a sentence together.
The second issue is-Indians are not as exposed to other cultures when compared with other countries. Over the years, tourism might have gotten a boost but India still gets a very low number of tourists. For these Indian guys, the only times they have seen a foreigner or more specifically a “white” person is in Hollywood movies which are more than likely to be porn. When it comes to me, I’m not even white so I don’t understand this obsession with adding me. I’m leaving this one point hanging up in the air because I have no real answer. May be I am a creep magnet.
The last and most important issue is- Sex!
Traditional Indian school of thought is built with minds who can’t talk about sex or even condoms for that matter! The sad, sad situation that a large number of poor people are dying AIDS related deaths is not alarming enough for Indians to openly speak about it. A stupidly large portion of the Indian population likes to believe that a woman stands in front of the mirror and finds herself magically impregnated. If you talk to someone about it, it does sound like no one is even having sex! Someone needs the CSI team to figure out how India ended up being the country with this ridiculously large population?! Me thinks, it includes a lot of standing in front of the mirror act.
Then at a random teen moment these boys (and mostly boys, rarely girls, ‘cos the girls are busy romanticizing cheesy routines from Bollywood movies where the guy drops rose petals from a 1000 roses at the girl’s feet, for her to glide on) are exposed to the naughty movies! Low and behold, now this dude’s imagination shall take a dump in the toilet and race to cross the borderline of socio-path. Mission accomplished by parents who never wanted to talk to him about sex and hope he’d magically discover it on his ‘arranged marriage wedding night’. Here we have, the birth story of the epic level Indian douche-bag who will keep adding you shamelessly even after you have ignored his first two requests to be added. If a woman says NO, its still a YES…apparently.
Google Insights, further proves my point.
This is world-wide search for the term ‘sex’ in 2004
And, this is the state of world-wide search in 2012.
India appears quite dense in 2004 and got even denser in 2012. Of-course there’s a bunch of other neighboring countries which appear just as curious but I can only speak ruthlessly for the one where I was born.
Conclusion time- You can’t have control over who adds you, especially on Google Plus. You can either block these d-bags or use your “share” smartly but I’d recommend Blocking! Drop the block bomb on these creeps like grenades.
There, I’ve vented all my frustration. The sick advantage of having your own blog.
