{"id":18413,"date":"2014-05-23T15:16:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T09:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=18413"},"modified":"2014-05-23T16:09:03","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T10:39:03","slug":"modify-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/modify-this\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Modify’ This. by Lincy John"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Facebook bought the Oculus VR Company<\/a> for $2 billion, critics were left scratching their heads. Those who had dismissed the idea of virtual reality becoming a reality were not so sure anymore, and suddenly, it was trending.<\/p>\n

India, I propose, should get on the bandwagon<\/strong> especially with the new government coming into power and the chanting of \u201cIndia is getting Modi<\/i>fied<\/strong>\u201d. If we step into this rising sector, just think about the jobs it would produce! Jobs- that\u2019s what the youngest population was actually voting for, wasn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

If we do enter the industry, we should definitely tap the gaming market. That\u2019s where the money is. In fact, we have a lot of scope there in terms of ideas. I actually already have a game idea in mind: \u201cThe Great Indian Virtual Reality Game\u201d<\/strong>. The game would be a mixture of popular games from Resident Evil to Assassin\u2019s Creed.<\/strong> The objective of the player would of course be to get from point A to point B, overcoming obstacles. Obstacles would include horrific things like blinders, clickers, soul suckers, flesh eaters, and worst yet, the blockers. The player would lose a bit of their life when they fall victim to one of the obstacles. The game is highly inspired from real life.<\/strong> Yes, highly inspired.<\/p>\n

Take a closer look.<\/p>\n

In reality, the player is female, any age.<\/p>\n

She would be trying to go somewhere be it home, work, school, etc.<\/p>\n

The obstacles would be actual people<\/em>.<\/strong> Blinders would be the flashers, clickers would be the self-proclaimed paparazzi of non-celebrities, soul suckers would be the guys who stare and stare and stare<\/i>, the flesh eaters would be the rapists and the list goes on.<\/p>\n

This is unfortunately \u201cThe Great Indian Virtual<\/span> Reality Game\u201d<\/span><\/strong> for the female gender with overdue gratitude to the male population of India.<\/p>\n

\"eve-teasing\"<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a guy, quickly jumping to defence, saying, \u201cNot all men!\u201d Listen, you\u2019re a part of the problem.<\/strong> You are the blocker.<\/i> Don\u2019t believe me? Alright, let\u2019s take a look at an imagined scenario.<\/p>\n

Say for example your sister\/girlfriend\/wife\/daughter\/mother comes up to you and asks, \u201cCan I g-<\/p>\n

Hold up! Did she just ask? If she\u2019s asking permission, do you really think that\u2019s equality?<\/strong> She should be having a dialogue with you. She should be expressing her thoughts, which you can either agree or disagree with. That is equality. Cue the whines and abuse from the protectors of Indian culture. Before they start on the \u201cdaughter\u201d aspect of the aforementioned, let me clarify. As for your not yet legal<\/i> daughter, when you tell her \u201cno\u201d, ask yourself why you\u2019re saying no, is it really for her safety or is it for tradition, culture or what society will think of you? Will you be her blocker?<\/p>\n

They offer many sweet words, but no jobs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The blockers, I must say, are the worst<\/strong>. And they\u2019re not just men. They\u2019re women too. They\u2019re the ones who say no. They\u2019re the ones who block our opportunities. They deny us at our young age education, economic freedom, and offer us marriage instead. They tell us we were asking for it because of our clothes, our way of talking. They withhold jobs. One of my good friends wants to be a photo journalist. However, there are not a lot of female photo journalists in Kerala. People look at her with wonder and curiosity seeing her camera. \u00a0When it comes to interviews, they are impressed by her passion. They offer many sweet words, but no jobs.<\/p>\n

Society has conditioned us so and we as a whole need a thorough cleansing. But we won\u2019t change, well, not until something so horrendous happens to us or someone close to us<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And no matter how righteous we proclaim we are, we too fall victim to becoming a blocker ourselves.<\/strong> The words, thoughts slip out before we can even process them: \u201cWhy was she out so late?\u201d<\/em> \u201cHer jeans are too tight.\u201d<\/em> \u201cLook at her flirt with those guys, what a slut.\u201d<\/em> \u201cHow can she just abandon her kids and go abroad?\u201d<\/em> \u201cShe should learn to forgive her husband.\u201d<\/em> \u201cHow can she return to cinema at her age?\u201d<\/em> <\/strong>We just can\u2019t seem to help it, can we? Society has conditioned us so and we as a whole need a thorough cleansing. But we won\u2019t change, well, not until something so horrendous happens to us or someone close to us…<\/p>\n

I usually don\u2019t mind celebrity tweets or statuses, but the words of Vineeth Sreenivasan<\/a><\/strong> come to mind. The words are honest and heartfelt perhaps because he experienced what we experience albeit second-hand. By seeing how his society treats the female gender, he was moved to write the following status on facebook…<\/p>\n

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