Comments on: ShameShame! Paint a Vulgar Picture, Shilpa. http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/04/16/shameshame_pain/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Erika http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/04/16/shameshame_pain/comment-page-3/#comment-204702 Erika Fri, 30 May 2008 15:57:18 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4345#comment-204702 <p>It's called humour!! He didn't rape her - he was just a celebrity putting on a show & pretending to overwhelm her with his charms...Shilpa Shetty is quite fortunate to get such a hug from Richard Gere - he's a lovely man. I was shocked to see what a fuss was made about this incident in India at first.....I love India but it's not healthy for any country to take its 'moral customs' to an extreme.</p> It’s called humour!! He didn’t rape her – he was just a celebrity putting on a show & pretending to overwhelm her with his charms…Shilpa Shetty is quite fortunate to get such a hug from Richard Gere – he’s a lovely man. I was shocked to see what a fuss was made about this incident in India at first…..I love India but it’s not healthy for any country to take its ‘moral customs’ to an extreme.

]]> By: Runa http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/04/16/shameshame_pain/comment-page-3/#comment-146560 Runa Wed, 27 Jun 2007 18:32:18 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4345#comment-146560 <p>Deanna,</p> <p>How wonderful that you can personally attest to 3.3 million square kilometers (1.3 million square miles) of India being an"overpopulated starving cowbelters mess"</p> <p>If you have a point - then make it without resorting to gross exaggeration</p> Deanna,

How wonderful that you can personally attest to 3.3 million square kilometers (1.3 million square miles) of India being an”overpopulated starving cowbelters mess”

If you have a point – then make it without resorting to gross exaggeration

]]> By: deanna http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/04/16/shameshame_pain/comment-page-3/#comment-146545 deanna Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:24:24 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4345#comment-146545 <p>So denying sex exists didnt really help this overpopulated starving cowbelters mess. Did you think those masses came out of kissing cheeks?!?</p> <p>Alas, look at europe, sex is a subject to freedom, and whoa, no overpopulation here and less poverty.</p> <p>Geez wake up people! Thumbs up for filmmakers like MIRA NAIR to drag that out in the open!</p> So denying sex exists didnt really help this overpopulated starving cowbelters mess. Did you think those masses came out of kissing cheeks?!?

Alas, look at europe, sex is a subject to freedom, and whoa, no overpopulation here and less poverty.

Geez wake up people! Thumbs up for filmmakers like MIRA NAIR to drag that out in the open!

]]> By: HRH http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/04/16/shameshame_pain/comment-page-3/#comment-131684 HRH Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:16:02 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4345#comment-131684 <p>what is wrong with my peeps? they didn't put out an arrest warrent for the Big Brother biggots who berated Shilpa for her ethnicity - but kiss the girl, and they'll burn your effigy?!</p> what is wrong with my peeps? they didn’t put out an arrest warrent for the Big Brother biggots who berated Shilpa for her ethnicity – but kiss the girl, and they’ll burn your effigy?!

]]> By: KarmaByte http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/04/16/shameshame_pain/comment-page-3/#comment-131669 KarmaByte Thu, 26 Apr 2007 19:03:01 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4345#comment-131669 <blockquote>This just in - an Indian court has ordered Gere's arrest...</blockquote> <p>The courts in India have nothing better to do.. just a few thousand other cases that actually need to be resolved!</p> This just in – an Indian court has ordered Gere’s arrest…

The courts in India have nothing better to do.. just a few thousand other cases that actually need to be resolved!

]]> By: mymamadidn'traisenofoo! http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/04/16/shameshame_pain/comment-page-3/#comment-131659 mymamadidn'traisenofoo! Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:40:02 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4345#comment-131659 <p>This is unbelievable > http://www.ktvu.com/entertainment/13181267/detail.html</p> This is unbelievable > http://www.ktvu.com/entertainment/13181267/detail.html

]]> By: Pondatti http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/04/16/shameshame_pain/comment-page-3/#comment-131648 Pondatti Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:52:26 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4345#comment-131648 <blockquote>I'm really surprised at SM's take on this.</blockquote> <p>I'm really surprised at the number of people whose reading skills are subpar. The post stated that Gere's actions were wrong and then moved on because <i>they weren't the point of the post</i>. The effigy-burning-over-reaction was. But hey, people love to complain/shoot their mouths off thoughtlessly/bleat etc.</p> I’m really surprised at SM’s take on this.

I’m really surprised at the number of people whose reading skills are subpar. The post stated that Gere’s actions were wrong and then moved on because they weren’t the point of the post. The effigy-burning-over-reaction was. But hey, people love to complain/shoot their mouths off thoughtlessly/bleat etc.

]]> By: MoorNam http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/04/16/shameshame_pain/comment-page-3/#comment-131644 MoorNam Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:29:38 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4345#comment-131644 <p><i>mauling her like that and holding her in a "death grip" is very frowned upon and even punishable by law.</i></p> <p>This just in - <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/26/gere.arrest.reut/index.html">an Indian court has ordered Gere's arrest</a>...</p> <p>A serious review and revamp of "obscenity laws" in India is in needed...</p> <p>M. Nam</p> mauling her like that and holding her in a “death grip” is very frowned upon and even punishable by law.

This just in – an Indian court has ordered Gere’s arrest…

A serious review and revamp of “obscenity laws” in India is in needed…

M. Nam

]]> By: Silvia http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/04/16/shameshame_pain/comment-page-3/#comment-131641 Silvia Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:19:10 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4345#comment-131641 <p><b>sk</b>, I could not agree more. I'm really surprised by the reactions of Indians here. Maybe I'm assuming wrong but most Indian posters here live abroad? I'm sure (or at least hope) that most know what sexual harassment is (which should actually be the same in all countries, including India) and what the norms are in the US or the UK, regarding behavior like his. I think that in any civilized place, a man coming on to a woman this way (a stranger to him or someone he isn't intimate with in real life), mauling her like that and holding her in a "death grip" is very frowned upon and even punishable by law. I saw the video and it actually looked a lot worse than the pics.</p> <p>So, what makes this so innocuous? The fact that he's Mr. Gere "movie star"?</p> <p>And for whoever said that this was just him pretending to be in a movie, maybe that's the problem. People like him don't know anymore where filming ends and real life begins, not to mention the feeling of entitlement such people have - it couldn't possibly be that a woman wouldn't dream of being touched and kissed by such a "god".</p> <p>AND, nobody mentioned that the man is also MARRIED.</p> sk, I could not agree more. I’m really surprised by the reactions of Indians here. Maybe I’m assuming wrong but most Indian posters here live abroad? I’m sure (or at least hope) that most know what sexual harassment is (which should actually be the same in all countries, including India) and what the norms are in the US or the UK, regarding behavior like his. I think that in any civilized place, a man coming on to a woman this way (a stranger to him or someone he isn’t intimate with in real life), mauling her like that and holding her in a “death grip” is very frowned upon and even punishable by law. I saw the video and it actually looked a lot worse than the pics.

So, what makes this so innocuous? The fact that he’s Mr. Gere “movie star”?

And for whoever said that this was just him pretending to be in a movie, maybe that’s the problem. People like him don’t know anymore where filming ends and real life begins, not to mention the feeling of entitlement such people have – it couldn’t possibly be that a woman wouldn’t dream of being touched and kissed by such a “god”.

AND, nobody mentioned that the man is also MARRIED.

]]> By: sk http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/04/16/shameshame_pain/comment-page-3/#comment-131637 sk Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:03:47 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4345#comment-131637 <p>I'm really surprised at SM's take on this. It's not appropriate for Gere to grab at Shilpa or any woman for that matter. The message is that he, as a man, can simply get away with invading a woman's space, and can do at a public function. Really not the message that he should be sending at an AIDS awareness function. Why on earth should he assume that he has the right to grab her? Would he do this to Ashley Judd at an AIDS awareness thing here? Who knows, maybe he would, idiot that he is.</p> I’m really surprised at SM’s take on this. It’s not appropriate for Gere to grab at Shilpa or any woman for that matter. The message is that he, as a man, can simply get away with invading a woman’s space, and can do at a public function. Really not the message that he should be sending at an AIDS awareness function. Why on earth should he assume that he has the right to grab her? Would he do this to Ashley Judd at an AIDS awareness thing here? Who knows, maybe he would, idiot that he is.

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