Friday, October 23, 2015

Impudence


Few characteristics that are bane and causes of annoyance are impudence, vainglory, disdain- disdain for others and refusal to respect systems- a fussy contrariness, besides some other one can think of. I mention these now because of a spectacle from the recent past. It was enactment of churlishness most annoying. Who says that pedigree, grooming education and public position would erase these egregious qualities? Or do they plague in the course of living? When Euripides said, “impudence is the worst of all human diseases”, he was simply stating a fact. Wasn’t he?

Frailty is not a quality that afflicts only women as the Bard would want us to believe. Men are not impervious or immune to infirmity. And when a woman with the qualities mentioned above also  possess the guile to enamour   and ensnare then frail men melt, faster than a block of ice on a summer afternoon; they forget their social status , professional positions and respect they enjoy , the responsibility  they have and the élan they must display in words and deeds. They simply become living examples of gauche.

And when you react from your position of responsibility against the boorishness of the woman, the frail little men who melt at her mere glance will fret fume and point back at their chest with their index finger and moan that you stabbed them there. For they allege that you hurt them, discredited them when you asked the intruder whom they let in illicitly that she must quit the place where she had no right to be. That is also when she would have realised that her beguiling charm and shenanigans interest only the impotent lot among men and entrap only such men.

Sounds abstract? Perhaps!  But putting it differently would mean telling bluntly.




3 comments:

Happy Kitten said...

Refusal to respect systems....
You must have your reasons for this outburst since some women can be the most vile and crafty when she wants to get her way..
But not all women need to fit this bill..

Insignia said...

Mmmm some lady has really caused something terrible for this outburst. Not all are this way Anil

anilkurup59 said...

@ Happy Kitten,

I see you understood. Of course this is not a trait with women. No generalisation


@ Insignia,

Yes Bindu.That was a woman who has a reputation in the film industry a, product of FTII and currently holding a directorship in an organization. But she was lacking social and civil decorum and arrogant. Perhaps she thought that her public position would give her sweeping right to ignore rules and do what she wants. That feeling I'm sure is dented now.

She will certainly think twice before trying what she did next time anywhere.