I am back!

It's been some time, quite a lot actually since I wrote anything. As far as the blog is considered, things turned out the way I expected them to be; I wasn't regular. No worries, I will again try to be regular, and who cares even if these posts are sporadic (I do, or do I?). 

A lot has happened since the last post, will probably cover each of those events separately. I had thought about making my next post about "Goals vs Dreams", I don't feel like I am the authority on this subject though, even if I know for a fact that nobody is going to read what I have written, I still don't feel like I am capable enough in terms of authority for taking it up as a subject. 

For now, I hope these posts help improve my writing skills along with my typing speed, and for that, I will have to be a bit regular.

Today, I will be writing about casual sexism/racism and my take on it. 

A few days ago, when a question concerning Gita Gopinath was asked on KBC, Big B passed a statement "itni khubsoorat chehra hai ki aap economics se connect hi nahi kar paaiyega", as expected people started rattling out, and there is nothing wrong with it, everyone is entitled to have their opinions and Twitter as a platform is known for people dishing themselves out on it. Honestly, I miss the days when my Twitter feed was just about sports, well basically when I didn't follow "people" per se, only followed sports stars, teams, and the news agencies providing information pertaining to them, I am thinking of creating an alternate account and have that "good old feed" back. Anyways, I went a bit off track there, back to what is my take on casual sexism/racism. After pondering over this and having a discourse on the same with Prachi, I realized that these things are too deep-rooted in humans; yes, we should be making amends. But, I don't feel it is that bad if the person as such had no such intention in particular about offending anyone. For example, if I call my best friend "kallu"(I don't really), I don't see anything wrong in it as I don't intend to hurt or upset him in any way, neither am I going to discriminate against him based on his color. I should stop referring to him as "kallu" if it even distresses the person slightly. This, in my opinion, is how the casual racism/sexism thing should be dealt with, the person for whom the remark has been made should have the final say if he/she finds the thing offensive; if they do, alright, it does qualify as an offensive comment, if they are fine with it, then, in my opinion, it doesn't pass as an offensive remark. Casual sexism/racism, in general, is pretty subjective in nature, we all have our own perception of what qualifies as hurtful and what does not. Hence, I think it would be best in the cases of "casual and only casual racism or sexism" it is best left to the person whom the remark concerns to decide whether the remark was sexist/racist or not.