Monday Morning Reality Check: Your Idea Of Love Is Harmful

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[{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1505670866290","data":"No matter what someone with a vested interest in truly terrible cinema might say, a person's idea of love, more specifically us student's idea of love, is shaped by the media they are exposed to. Take, for example, this meme down here. <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1505676398933","data":"59beccd91d4c5"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1505676406654","data":"You can see the name of the page that shared it and go read the comments yourself. For all I know, some of you might even agree with this. For those who do the latter, I have a question for you all.<\/p>What on earth is wrong with you?<\/p>Why do you think stalking a girl is a legitimate way to win her affection, and you ladies, you're not absolved from this. Some of you honestly believe that this is how love works, thanks to Mahesh Babu movies and his borderline creepy and control freak antics which you somehow end up finding cute. Like, what on earth is wrong with you. <\/p>You see this is a vicious cycle of abuse that is being propagated and normalised because this is the only way of expressing love that we see in our movies and popular media. Unsurprisingly, many of our parents are wary of being affectionate to each other in front of us (that doesn't stop them from yelling at each other and fighting openly in the house, by the way) and the only source of what we identify as 'love' comes from an already regressive institution that tells you that women are objects that must be pursued before they can be obtained, and it tells women that their worth is only in how conventionally attractive of a man she can attract. That and the fact that women in these movies do nothing except dance around on the screen and get kidnapped at the right time for the 'hero' to save them. <\/p>I didn't want to write this on stuMagz, this would be more suited for my personal blog, but considering the number of students that read this magazine and the fact that my target audience for this piece was, in fact, students, I had to get the word out. <\/p>So all you folks who assign love this over the top mythical quality of an item that you must possess at any costs, you are only setting yourself up for failure. Women are not objects and men are not desperate loners who just need women to be an arm candy that comes with a remote to shut them up. Which means <\/p> <\/p>"},{"type":"img","id":"img-uid-1505677758549","data":"59bed270d2939"},{"type":"txt","id":"rich_1505677843377","data":"Love is a beautiful thing that'll happen to you in its own time. You can't rush this, it is not a commodity you can purchase. Sure, you can throw money around and get a few fake friends and relationships, the kind that'll disappear at the first sign of trouble, but it still won't buy you companionship and respect. The essential part of every relationship is trust and respect, what kind of respect are you giving someone you stalk? It clearly shows that you do not care about that person's rights, neither do you care about respecting them. All you need is someone to love for the sake of loving, and there is nothing more disgusting than that. <\/p>I mean, there are a lot of things more disgusting than that, but you get the point. <\/p>You're still young, use this time to learn how to respect someone you like instead of being a creepy stalker. Your idea of love is disrespectful, toxic and downright wrong, given to you by movies that sell a pipe dream to the lowest common denominator of the country who do not want to dream further than their entitlement to their would be partners. <\/p>It's time to stop. It's time to reassess your situation and stop being creepy.   <\/p>"}]

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