...except for the fact that I don't want to be that proverbial rolling stone. I like my roots just fine, but this dratted world just won't let me have any and instead I find myself writing this in a new house and not in that not-so-perfect apartment that I lived in. Which obviously means that this post will be all about spewing venom on house hunting and what a bitch that can be. Lets begin shall we?
The danger to the world isn't terror groups or virulent diseases, it seems, the danger to society is infact the single woman. The reason I was getting evicted in the first place was that I was living alone. My insidious landlord had the nerve to tell me that even though I could pay the increased rent, I had to evict as she wanted a "Family". That word has been my bane throughout the process. Landlords, are perfectly normally people, till I tell them that "its just me". Then their eyes bulge out, they swallow a dozen times and ask me how I'm going to the pay the rent "all by myself". At this point I've heard this refrain so many times that I want to blurt out "By pimping myself mother fucker" but no we can't, we are desperate. Thats when it seems cruel. Cruel how single independant woman are treated.
We work as hard as anybody else but its so unfair sometimes. If you're a woman and your single, the society we live in feels so bloody threatened by it. they want to marry you off, they want to pair you with somebody and if they can't, they want you to just disappear. Nobody asks a guy when he plans to get married even if hes on the wrong side of 35 but for a woman and if shes 25, she over the hill. Its business of the society, it seems to police the single woman - to monitor what shes doing, who she goes out with, who are friends her and oh on the business of friends all the landlords made it perfectly clear that boys were not allowed. Nada. no way. I want to know if bachelors face the same ordeal? Do people tell them that they can't have girl friends over? or is it assumed that boys have raging hormones anyway and they can't control them, its the women who are susceptible and ergo by this insane logic they should be policed.
WTF!!
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The last bit echoes my sentiments exactly 'WTF?!!'
You know my views on the topic already. Here's to the day or reckoning sista! Where all the landlords/ladies will have to PAY for their sins against us single women!
Hallelujah!
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Your ordeal has gone global, did you visit dubai landlords or is it just that pune people bought a lot of land in Dubai?
In dec 07 during my visit to Dubai i heard similar rants not just from women but a majority men. Apparently women are considered docile and manageable in Dubai(they can cry and smile) and get accomos but seems like the male hormones really rage a lot and it becomes a strenuous job to find a decent place to stay.
If you are a family, then you may easily find a place but single men or women...just No No.
Bachelors too. Even in US, where some of my friends stay, the "Desi" landlords impose conditions on everything including girlfriends and clothes (no just shorts and vests, wear pyjamas and T-Shirt)!
"boys have raging hormones anyway and they can't control them" ... not fair at all!
This is just so that you know. You know me really well and we may have even quizzed together. Though I've never said it, my heart beats for you and in true floyd Style let me dedicate these lines to you
We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have you found? The same old fears.
Wish you were here.
You may have guessed who I am, and you may not...I shall leave it to your imagination. Love. Adios.
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