GAY BASHING INDIAN STYLE

 

Last Sunday, I was walking home together with my sisterettes from an afternoon of shopping along a strip of factory outlets near our place.  Our neighborhood although near the CBD (central business district) is a mixed residential and commercial area – and relatively very peaceful and quite. 

As we walked on the pathways, there were three “Indian looking boys” walking towards us and I was shocked when as they passed by one of the fat one in the middle just taunted and mockingly opened his mouth in a very badly gay mimicked Indianic voice to moi … ”Ohhhhh lahh hallooo…lyook ho’s here mama… Ay’m sooo gayyyyy!, bwa ha,ha,ha,ha,ha!!!!”  And his other two companions joined in as well, mocking me obviously. 

Me and my sisters were stunned for awhile by this - obviously gay bashing show – and as if we were quickly transported back to the Philippines.  I don’t know whether to laugh with them or throw some stones (like what I usually did before when being harassed like this by street boys in the Philippines), but as an immediate response I could not help myself from … stopping, looking at them in my fiercest Naomi Campbell look, and screamed … “Fucking Indians … if you don’t want to act like humans, then go back to your fucking third world country with you curry asses! … And yes, I will report you to the police ….!!!”

To my utmost annoyance, the fat big ugly Indian who looked so dirty in his unkempt shirt (probably from Mumbay or Calcutta), mimicked tauntingly what I just said and his two friends flavoured it in with their boisterous laughter ….. ” …I will repart yuuuu ta da paaaalissssshhh…..???ngaaa,ha,aha,aha,hhhaaaa”  with his Indian head banging back and forth crazily!

To this I threw in my fingers and said “Go back to Indiaaaa you fucking Morons…”

And me and my sisters decided to quickly walk on … I was sooo aghast, completely forgetting all my prim and supposed to be proper persona.   But no need to press on and make patol to these three moronic indians. (Pardon my seeming use of Indian words – but I was really angry!).  How dare they judge me like that and they did not even know me.   I just lost my composure, my patience and my “love your neighbor karma attitude”.  Bless you Mahatma Gandhi, but these three Indians tested my patience!  

And so we continued with our home journey… but I was really pissed off.  I felt like the Celine Dion song …. It was like it’s all coming back to me now – bashing version!  …  I just quickly remembered that I was walking with my usual brown lady bag and the black headband, plus my pink sunglasses.  And yes, I was also wearing a black girly cardigan to hide my fats, as it was also very cold, and this made me look skinnier.   And I thought i did not really look like a girl, but yes, a bit really gay!  But I have never been ridiculed like that the last time I was in the Philippines.

In my almost nine years of living in Melbourne and in Australia, this is the first time that I had this sort of gay bashing experience on the streets, and not from the Australians (as i expected), but from these (sorry!) ugly smelly generally inconsiderate very lowly “kind” of people from India. 

This kind of bashing is obviously from a deeply rooted gay discrimination in the pysche of people like these three Indian boys.  And it is still existing everywhere in the world.

I cannot believe it !!!!

Now refrain me from doing this, but these are my personal observations and experiences regarding this kind of people, aside from gay bashing thing.

They talk very loudly in their native Indian languages on the trains, trams, streets without much consideration of the people around them.  They walk on the streets as if it is their own streets,  and on their own terms (like walking under the moonlight) - without consideration that there also other people  they won’t budge and give way.   They shop attend and they think they own the stores and act like queens and kings and without much respect to their customers.  They talk to you as if you don’t know anything at all, and for whatever reasons,  I can sense their racism lurking against Asians …… They do need a lot of education in ethics, i mean etiquette!  is it in their natural culture or personality to be rude and abrupt, very inconsiderate, and maybe overconfident.  And they really “stink” too (from eating a lot of curry perhaps or not having shower!), and they don’t mind even rubbing themselves on you while on the trains.  They shove and push you if they could on the trams and trains, and even in work, Just to get on top or ahead of you.  With the situation in India, I could just imagine why??? 

I am not talking in general about the Indians and I am just expressing my experience with the kind of Indians that I dealt with.  In my working experience, I have met well educated and respectable Indians – and I really like and respect them.  Maybe there are subcultures just like the Filipinos and other nationalities, that are of this kind of personalities.

Now, Melbourne has seen a deluge of Indians – students, manning the call centers, taxi drivers, KFC food services, 7 elevens, and on the streets.  A few years from now, I am sure Bollywood will be in Melbourne. Indian restaurants are sprouting everywhere.  And maybe more Indian gay bashers to land in the airport ….

If I were not trying hard to be like Gandhi,  I would have started waging a war against these kind of people … but thanks God no!!!