The Solitary Reaper

“Dude, Its just not fair.. Should I bear the injustice just because she is The Girl ?? .. We should not call them fair sex anymore .. but ‘Unfair Sex’ ....”. Pretty Strong Words !! Being the Lover of ‘Womanity™’ , I had to find out why should one say that.
Pondering over it my breakfast, I look at my watch.. shoot .. 9:05 .. Not, one more late attendance.. I rush to the class. Phew..The register is still closed. Strange.. But why ? Then it dawns upon me.. Ohh! She hasn’t turned up yet .. Holy Cow !This is it !! How could a Prof. Langdon wannabe miss something that stares so blankly in his face. Its The Girl that guy was talking about. Suddenly everything starts falling into place. There has been such blatant injustice all around and I didn’t see it.
Here is my first hand observation :
In a Sexually starved bunch of Male Virgins, there are no friends, there are just Male Suitors. Every action is directed to fetch the attention of the ‘One’. Its not a Rat-Race , Its a Cat-Race Where everyone out to get a piece of the kitty.
Putting it simply, there is no fun element in the class, your every action is to me monitored, every statement chastened so as to not appear offensive.
When one enjoys so much exclusiveness, one does get highly demanding. It is so heart-wrenching to see the usual high-headed dudes getting so disdainfully dismissed and still taking it with a pinch of salt.
All the seats around the epicentre of the class appear overpopulated. And sadly, it is usually the front bench. Friggin’ Unbelievable.
It does not bury with the dudes it seems. Profs too want a piece of the pie. Normally you would find the gruff Profs getting very digruntled at every query i put forward. But there is a drastic mellowing down of the tone, when you-know-who is asking something.
Suddenly the not-so-bright start juicing every paper. A+ becomes so commonplace. Those Extra Curves start fetching the extra credits.( I tread on very thin grounds here. one might argue , but its just an observation )
Last but not the least. Don’t ever get in her firing line. I shiver in my pants as i write this because i want to see myself getting the B.Tech. degree.
Yeah, I know I am being mean. And stuff like these is commonplace. And Men are supposed to be chivalrous by nature. But hey, there is a tipping point. Cross that and you are left into an unsafe, unchartered region. Judging by the recent indifference and cold-shoulder shown to the Lady, I get the feel that she might just have crossed it.
Author: Suprabhat Tiwari