Comments on: The Exotic

By: taz

taz — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:15:26 +0000

Good comments were made.

Bad comments were made.

Good rebuttals to being exotified made. Live loud and proud brownz, don't let your voice be stifled by the white woman! [brown fist in air]

I am gouging my eyes out here moderating this thread.

I gots more important things to do in my life than moderate a thread catering to the exotic banter of PG.

If you gonna be all ignant and can't play nice, than maybe you should find another playground to play on.

By: Beige Siege

Beige Siege — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:13:01 +0000

Are you for real? Its not a 'what if' thing. Everybody here (bar none) has felt left out or has been made to feel like the 'other' a few times in their life. Surely, you can understand this simple fact.

Not me. But ehh.. I am a FOB. I dont really count because I never had to face the issues most ABDs seem to have faced growing up. Lucky me. You can exotize me all you want. Afterall I will always be "othered" no matter what.

Personally, my pet peeve is when people talk of desi accents. Everytime someone, especially ABDs make any kind of remark about accents(even if it is said in fun), I say something rude like, "And you think you speak like the Queen of England or what? Dumbfuck".

Its all about our own issues, not what other people say. I am sure the Gita says this somewhere; albeit more eloquently.

By: Pardesi Gauri

Pardesi Gauri — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:12:44 +0000

Probably it's a case similar to this;

http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/002544.html#comment96299

My guess is that most of those getting in a twist have never been called exotic before.

By: Manju

Manju — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:12:19 +0000

But I am pertubed by comment #133 that called PG a "sex tourist".

yeah, cruel...but funny. so all good. PG might even embrace it, she's good that way. It's #113, btw.

By: vaishnavi

vaishnavi — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:06:16 +0000

this girl i knew in high school always misused the term “pet peeve” cuz she thought it meant your favorite quality in a person, not things that annoy you. when she told one of her boyfriends that one of her biggest pet peeves was honesty, he was like wtf?! bad example, but true story. isn’t the same thing happening with the word exotic? people may have good intentions when they are using it, but it’s interpreted negatively by the receiver and therefore people get upset? that said, once that girl found out what the meaning of “pet peeve” really was, she felt embarrassed and started to use the term correctly. a word like “exotic” to me may not have one concrete meaning, and while i don’t find the word on its own offensive, it is a term that does upset the majority of the commenters on this thread and out of respect for that, i wouldn’t go around calling angelina jolie exotic in this environment. to me, that’s just social tact.

By: Manju

Manju — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:04:37 +0000

You Know Damn Well Who

Kobayashi?

By: Al_Mujahid_for_debauchery

Al_Mujahid_for_debauchery — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:03:56 +0000

And now everyone don't jump on me for saying you're not exotic. I do find all of you to be nice looking.

WTF! Stop your patronizing crap. Its too obvious and crude.

By: Pardesi Gori

Pardesi Gori — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:02:06 +0000

Are you for real? Its not a 'what if' thing. Everybody here (bar none) has felt left out or has been made to feel like the 'other' a few times in their life. Surely, you can understand this simple fact.

OK so that means EVERY HUMAN ON EARTH has been exotified!!!

Sorry, but that is SO NOT the meaning of exotic.

I feel left out and "other" every day of my life, everywhere I go.

Hello! Does that make me "exotic"? Not.

By: Pardesi Gori

Pardesi Gori — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:59:50 +0000

From Pardesi Gori's definition 'exotic' is positive then why are people thinking that she is being a racist when she uses exotic for a desi? I think people need to clarify if they think exotic is "racist" to them before they gang up on Pardesi Gori cuz looking at her definition it is something positive.

Yeah, and since I don't find any of the mutineers here or any of the commenters who's pics I saw to be exotic, either in a positive or negative way, I don't understand the big deal.

And now everyone don't jump on me for saying you're not exotic. I do find all of you to be nice looking.

By: chick pea

chick pea — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:59:25 +0000

i swear upon on the ground that i walk upon... that i am sick and tired of the word EXOTIC used in whatever context (the good the bad and the ugly..all of it)..... can we all just PLEASE stop using it.. puhllleeeze? i'm in the process of applyinghead on...(one of the absolute worst commercials out there) okay thank you for your consideration...

i think anand jon like sandy dalal will be a nobody tomorrow--he isn't that special..and is not one of those designers that we will be seeing um..3 years from now? ... why paris hilton wants to go to india? who the hell knows... i'm surprised she hasn't been there already..