My sins against gender-stereotypes

I happened to see that I was tagged into this by my friend Harsha on his blog. Thanks a lot, you fastracker (that's an inside joke)

If you are a man,

Have you ever wanted something that only women are supposed to want – like bags, shoes, clothes, creams, perfumes, babies, flowers? A peaceful home and a happy family? Have you ever been afraid of the dark or of insects?

As a kid did you ever want to play ‘teacher-teacher’, cooking or did you like playing with a doll? Have you ever enjoyed cooking? Bought something in pink? Loved chocolates?

 If you are a woman,

Have you ever wanted something that is considered ‘manly’ ? Like a basketball, a cell phone, a dog, a camera or a new laptop? A new car or motor bike? Ever wanted to be a pilot? A doctor or not a nurse? And the manliest want of them all – The remote! 

As a kid did you enjoy playing with a bat and a ball?

There was a time when books were considered ‘manly’, women authors had to pretend to be men – would you say books are still rather manly – women should want to embroider and crochet?

 

So here’s the tag – Please list at least ten things you have ever wanted or done which your gender is not supposed to.

 

The tag is called ‘My Sins against Gender-Stereotypes’. And you must tag twelve blogging friends  or else you will be cursed to wear blue clothes pants if you are a woman and PINK shirts if you are a man – for next twelve years . 

So here it goes...Ten things I wanted to do or did which my gender was not supposed to do.

1. Spend more than 2000 bucks for your hair - (did it multiple times, and sometimes in multiples of 2K)

2. I have worn pink shirts(have four of them, in multiple shades too :(  )

3. get a manicure and a pedicure - never got thru with this, though every time I look at my dirty toes I wish i did

4. watched Amanda bynes in She's the man and worse than that liked the movie and her.

5.read sweet valley twins - did the mistake once and barfed the whole night, not fully due to that though.

6. Love bharathanatyam and did my arangetram also - still love the dance form, wish i could have pursued it though i left it because of gender stereotyping when i was young

7.Used to blast Aqua and Backstreet boys in my discman - yugh!!! i shudder now when i think about it.

8. Read Stephanie Meyers twilight much before the movie came out and actually liked it

9. used to think Ricky martin was hot and tried to sing like him - thank god i dont anymore before he came out of the closet

10. picked up a t shirt when i was in college when malls were new to chennai and bought it and came back home later to find out that it is a girl's tee - It fit me perfectly though.

There it is done now. I dont have 12 people to tag although I certainly want certain people to get cracking on this.

 Priya ranganathan

Kiran kallakuri

Praboth panda

Ramasamy Kasi

Namitha 

Shivasundar

Kavitha 

Harharan nagarajan

so it's your turn now guys and girls...I shall remind you through email about this and keep hounding you till you do it