Your appearance and desi culture

[chaibiskut]

Re: Your appearance and desi culture

@stoppit

“Besides, people naturally tend to be very blunt with folks they know well enough, its not like Desis go around tell random people on their face that you’re ugly or whatever.”

I don’t agree. I think they have an unhealthy obsession with what other people look like and feel the need to comment.

The first time I went to Pakistan, people I had never met previously in my life (and no relation) thought they needed to make comments on how thin I was and how I needed to be more ‘healthy’.

And another time when I stayed with a friend for a few days in Lahore and we went out with her friends, her male friends could not stop “taking the mickey” (this is for you, Hareem) about the fact I wore glasses… like wtf? I was in my mid twenties btw.

Now, I don’t give a crap but it is annoying. Like I want your opinion??

In nerdy solidarity, let me just say being four-eyed is haute, sistah. Ditto on your experience being lean, mean, and bespectacled. In the motherland, glasses mean you’re blind and thin means you don’t have love handles. The local breed doesn’t seem to have mentally moved on from middle school. It’s funny because now, every time I see a Tom, Dick, or Harry wearing thick, black frames trying to channel Johnny Depp, I’m like I looked like Tina Fey way before it was cool, FOO!