Thursday, October 19, 2006

Media denigrates murdered man who had sex with men

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According to a news report by a Hindi TV channel under its special ‘crime hour’, the police arrested a youth in Pune in connection with the murder of a middle aged man who was killed sometime ago.
It turned out that the man used to have sexual relations with several young men. He had approaching this guy Abdul (name changed) who seemed like somewhere from UP from his dialect. Although Abdul has only said that he killed the man because he approached him, it seems too little motive for him to kill someone, as well as ruin his own life.
Killing so-called ‘homosexuals’ (sic) is not uncommon in the west, where so-called ‘homophobia’ is extreme, but it is almost unknown in the Indian society. If there was some other motive involved, then Abdul has not revealed it yet.
What was disturbing about the news is not only the motive mentioned for the murder. It was also the attitude of the media --- which cries itself hoarse, chiding the Indian society for its lack of tolerance for sexual freedom. Apparently, the strongest force of heterosexualisation, the media only want this freedom for sex between males and females. More appalling is its attempt to denigrate sex between males (which it never tires to call ‘homosexuality’).
In this case, the T.V. show while interviewing the murderer was sensitive enough to blur his face on the camera. But it went ahead and showed the photographed of the victim, who came from a well-respected family. And it rather portrayed him as a villain for indulging in sex with men. (It is not clear whether he indulged in exclusive receptive anal sex or not, in which case he will be called a ‘homosexual’ as per the Indian system of classification). The channel said that he indulged in “Samlaingik sambandh” (literal Hindi translation of ‘homosexual relations’). The man was married and had children.
The man’s family was too disturbed over the loss of face in their conservative society this revelation about the sexual life of the man had brought to them. Now they were not really interested in pursuing the case further.
As mentioned this speaks volumes about the bigoted and biased ‘sexual freedom’ espoused by the forces of heterosexualisation.

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