#indian uncle

[sherlockisactuallyagaysname]

indian uncle (gender neutral)

[indizombie]

There is the obvious and virulent form of this unclepan you find on the internet and WhatsApp groups—propelling misinformation, trolling feminist handles, frothing about love jihaad, body-shaming and victim-blaming. Uncouth uncles openly complain about how women dress at schools or in workplaces, empathising with #MeToo offenders, revealing their highly sexed way of tackling the female body that holds public space, demonstrating their innate resentment of the hard-won freedom of many salaried women to escape unfulfilling marriages (and bad sex) as a means of securing a living. But these online uncles are easy targets. My conversations on workplace politics offer a more complex and nuanced picture of the unhelpful uncle. The men that drew maximum ire from the women I interviewed were not right-wing WhatsApp uncles. Instead, I heard multiple stories about how self-professed liberal uncles, often beta-men, could inflict chronic damage on a woman’s career and confidence. Navigating and complaining about a clear and clumsy display of bias is far more straightforward—although onerous—than its subtle and sophisticated form.

Sharanya Bhattacharya, ‘The tyranny of the Indian uncle’, Mint

[sindhumnart]

Been wanting to start my regular art practice. But my desire to be perfect stopped me from starting it!

I stumbled upon a video on YouTube of @struthless81 where he says done is better than perfect, ah it changed my attitude completely!

So this is one of the firsts, I'm not gonna bother anymore about being perfect, I just wanna do it :)

Gonna share my progress here with you guys! :)

Best way to start was definitely with the portrait of an Indian uncle :D

[indizombie]

An enduring attribute of the unhelpful uncle, often witnessed on Twitter-Pradesh, is his ability to drone on about ceding privileges or spaces he has never really lost. He fundamentally believes the world is a zero-sum game where another’s gain must be his loss. Uncledom is a quagmire of self-pitying-self-serious victimhood. Conservative uncles complain about the collapse of their prestige or place, while data continues to show how wealth and assets remain concentrated amongst men and certain caste-communities. Male economic dominance and educational attainment have certainly reduced in several Western countries. But elite Indian men are hardly confronted with a radically equal world. Yes, more women are entering universities and niche sectors but we remain in the world’s bottom five when it comes to women’s economic participation. A recent EY report, Diversity In The Boardroom: Progress And The Way Forward, found women’s representation on Indian boards was 18% in 2022. France topped the chart with 44.5% women representation on company boards, followed by Sweden (40%). The report also found that women account for only 6% of executive positions on banking and capital markets boards in India. According to a report by the financial services firm Morningstar in 2022, only 8% of mutual fund managers are women. So, even amongst the upper echelons of the economy, boss ladies are few and far between. And yet, the unhelpful uncle feels he is being emasculated.

Sharanya Bhattacharya, ‘The tyranny of the Indian uncle’, Mint

[war-is-the-stupidest-invention]

Every time my 50 year old indian uncle posts a monsoon picture on Faceook I want to comment "yooooo dat shit be CRAY!" but I chicken out at the last minute