Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Dear MR. Editor!!!!

"Sir,It is a sad state of affairs that there is an unholy nexus.........."

"Mr Editor,Could we have a more incompetent......"

"Sir,I would like to know..........."

"Sir,Is there any criminal offence..............."

Yeh well I better stop here and explain eh.. Frankly this is like the minutest of a sample from the overflowing reader's opinion we get. Guess that was too fast. So let me start from the beginning. I work in an online journalism section of a company where readers in response to articles send their opinions. The quotes I posted way in the beginning are just a small percent of the lot we get. Which usually start this way.

So?? There doesn’t seem to be anything wrong there does it??..lol...yeh well really it isn’t your fault either... that’s the way most of us are conditioned right?

ohk ohk....wont uphold the suspense anymore.....the thing bugging me here is the beginning of each sentence. Why is it always SIR or MR. EDITOR??....is it coz the editor is really a male??.. not quite...my boss..rather boss’s boss is a female..a brilliant one at that.

so really the Sir came as a conditioned response than knowledge...a pity don’t you think...women have done wonders in almost all fields and yet when one thinks about a doctor or a lawyer the "HE" or male factor comes in doesn’t it. just be honest for once. And hey this isn’t an attack on only the males...female members of our society are just as guilty of this.

In fact, just before ending this i'd like to add a question my psychology proff. asked us in our first year of grad. She told us this incident and asked us to give an answer to the puzzle…….i’ll try and frame the question as well as I can:

One stormy night, a father and a son were traveling in a car across a forest. Here they met with a deadly accident where the father died on the spot. The son was badly injured but a few people who were accidentally passing by took the kid straight to the nearest hospital. There the doctor in charge immediately operated on the child and then went straight to the people and said…”Thank you. You have saved my son”.

Hmm now if you haven’t figured out the answer I just might be a bit surprised. But even if that is the case the answer is simple……….. The doc was the child’s mum. Easy is it??Not quite usually people never figure it out. The answers I get to this question varies from the doc being a church’s father to the ghost of the father entering the doc to thank the people. Rather amusing aint it??

But truly speaking it’s a tragic thing. Nothing of harm mabbe. But all things evil or good start with the thought behind it. They start with the attitude and aptitude of a person towards a certain thing. And if that is negative God forbid a lot of negativities would come out of that.

Think about it!!!

5 comments:

abhartiya said...

wow..well written miss aashi! :)

frankly speaking, every time i think of writing anything like that, I start contemplating as to how should I go about it. Eventually, I've realized I better put it as either Dear or Respected..lol..i dont know but I guess it has to be this way only!

i totally agree with what you've just said...and am not gonna lie but i too couldnt make out that the doc was the child's mum..I was infact wondering..WTF..How is this possible? You've just made me realize a very peculiar and important aspect of today's ever growing world..

cheers!

Aashi said...

lolz...hey wacko thnx... :)

guess it is quite a natural reaction..n hey gr8 2 see a commnt this quick..i thot id lost everyone ever since i started working..newyz thnx 4 the commnt kinda makes me wanna restart writing...newyz...its just sumthing i wrote down while doin the readers opinion found it really amusing.. :P

Hoppy said...

hey aachi......
well dats one of d most ignored problems-for d want of a betr word- our society faces

bt den wrnt v taught in d primary classes dat d gendr of ne unknwn thing or prsn is by default MALE....
so u rilly cant blame d ppl hre.....d educatn systm needs to correct it dre.


well i got d ans to ur ques....nd nw i m glad dat i did :D

nd dre r sm ppl who ryt he/she or mr/miss editor
so d society aint completly blind :)

dres still a ray of hope


well it was wndrful peice of wrk so simple yet conveyin all u had to.
duncha think bout stoppin rytin dat will do more harm to d society dan ne thing else cos it will loose a strong thread pulln it towards d betrment :)

toodles!!!

Sam said...

well written namesake!! but den we can start about with examples and bring abt the change!! can't we??

Anonymous said...

Good post.

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