anna,

Raj? I mean this in the nicest possible way, but, um, what are you thinking girl? Dime store lothario is too good a term.....(or is it just my crankiness and age showing?)

Hey -- he's got breastplate abs!

dearest MD-didi,

i hang my head in shame. you are so right. he's not worth pining over. Yet, like those who deplore gc's sentiments via comments section, who should know better...i just can't get enough! ;)

i think i like the way he dresses, since i'm kind of a fashion anachronism, too. i like wearing hats and gloves, and i have a pair of vintage spectator mary-janes that look like a female version of some of the shoes he was sportin' on the show.

i didn't crush on him initially, it was only after my aunt started haranguing me about how he was PERFECT for me...that's when he infected me with his...erm...charm. :D

I'm with Anna-- he's an indiscriminate skirt-chaser, but he's interesting, which is a sight better than those who are merely lusty. Worth a date, dear.

I'd add the same admonishment to all players in the grand game that I do to bloggers: above all, be interesting!

I'm also a fan of his way with words. He conveys an interesting understanding / wisdom across a broad variety of subjects and is unafraid to make pretty sweeping statements (that's not to say that he probably lacks depth knowledge in far too many subjects).

For ex., I loved his analysis of why Kelly won -

At final analysis, I will go with an automotive analogy. Kelly was a Lexus: solid, dependable, competent in many areas, and, overall, an excellent machine. Some other contestants with a chance, myself perhaps included, were a bit more like an Italian sports car, capable of spurts of dazzling performance, but somewhat more cantankerous and more prone to break downs.

In a long interview process, consistency is prized and Kelly indisputably displayed this virtue above all others. Kudos to Kelly. One must not always be particularly fond of someone to recognize achievement.

I'm a big fan of the broad perspective & self-knowledge....

uh...yeah...what THEY said. ;)

Yet, like those who deplore gc's sentiments via comments section, who should know better...i just can't get enough! ;)

Why, thank you m'dear...I think... ;)

Left-handed compliments aside, I agree with Vinod. I think Mr. Bhakta was refreshing because he was willing to make generalizations. Despite their obvious utility, generalizations have today been universally demonized as "stereotypes".

Therefore anyone who makes a generalization in today's climate needs to be confident, and confidence is attractive to women.

Q. E. D.

I think Mr. Bhakta was refreshing because he was willing to make generalizations. Despite their obvious utility, generalizations have today been universally demonized as "stereotypes".

GC - very well put. As the saying goes "generalizations are the basis of all knowledge."

actually, gc, i'm right-handed, so my compliments are too. ;)

i think it's funny that the people who seem to WANT to take the "don't feed the troll" mentality with you can't resist their innate desire to attempt to argue with you. just like i can't resist my wavy-haired dimestore lothario. :D

attempt to argue with you

I will refrain from making a crack about how "attempt" is the operative word :)

WANT to take the "don't feed the troll" mentality with you

true, true...but then if i was trolling, i'd be more subtle & satirical about it.

For Manish's posts, I'd throw in some over the top story about how eight separate hate crimes were perpetrated against me while getting my hair cut (they said "Indians have fabulous follicles!" - the nerve!)

For Abhi's posts, I'd call for communist revolution...followed rapidly by the establishment of a nomenklatura composed of aerospace grad students.

For the South Asian Fascist Sistaz, I'd wag my head in approval while telling them to check out this brilliant sendup of patriarchal oppression.

And for ol' liberal pundit/Sluggo, I'd head to the online lefterator, run the result through Babelfish or the Abilene Kinko's a few times, and get the sort of heartfelt, typo-ridden, anti-Bushitler manifesto we've come to expect from him ;)

Anna -

Your crush and gratuitious commentary on Raj - replete with a picture of him practically celebrating his penile barbarism clad in leather breastplate - are perfect examples of why we South Asian Sisters face our toughest battles within our own ranks. Were he not so hawt and sexee would he have warranted your attention on Sepia Mutiny?

Raj - a pseudo-libertarian no less - should only be considered by Sepia Mutiny for his contributions to, uh, Reality TV sans all this childish talk of his dress and almost English aristocratic manners. (Or perhaps your admiration of him stems precisely from that? A caustic mix of post-colonial envy and yearning for acceptance? Raj, after all, is only half-brown - perhaps that gives him license to sleep at night despite subscribing to such oppressive conservative ideology.)

In your fawning admiration for Raj, you stop just short of commiting the worst sin of all against the sisterhood - a gratuitous link to Super Jagjit's Harold & Kumar poster.

- the SAS

Well, kids, I still don't get it, but you have made me see 'the Raj' in a new light. And I suppose someone who can wear a bow tie without seeming like a dork can't be all that bad.

(I think I am just projecting, anyway - he just reminds me too much of a student or resident who is charming and funny, but doesn't do his/her work, leaving it for *me* to clean up. I hate that. And also, Kelly is more my type because of his blandness and anal-retentiveness, so that should tell you all you need to know about my neuroses and taste. Sad, but true :) ).

reminds me too much of a student or resident who is charming and funny, but doesn't do his/her work, leaving it for *me* to clean up. I hate that.

Heh. You remind me of my mom.

You know, to me that sounds like a compliment, whether it was intended as one or not!

My dear friend gc has stringent codes of conduct for trollers on his own website. And, if you insist on spamming, gc threatens to expose your misdeeds the ‘conservative way’ – by posting your naked IP to the world wide web. Ooh yeah, way to go, gc baby.

“Some people just can't seem to take a hint. WN's, you are not welcome. If you persist in posting from multiple accounts after your comments have been deleted, I will begin posting your IP addresses -gc”

vinod, how about giving gc a dose of his own bitter? Ban GC!

dear south asian sisters of vinod,

your missive just fans the inappropriate flame which burns for raj within, baby. you leave me no other options; i choose to fight fire with fire. take THAT!

now if you'll huffily excuse me, i must get back to my post-colonial hangover. my deplorable objectification of the half-brownie, half-vanilla, fully hot sundae has nothing to do with his impact on...uh, reality television. were he not hawt and sexxxy, i don't think i'd give an imperialist's ass about him.

anyway, his virility makes me want to be a SAHM on xanax. i fantasize about catering to his every whim, to the exclusion of my self-actualization and agency. all of that meaninglessness takes time...time that typing this silly comment is wasting. harrumph!

see you in hell,

A N N A, that turncoat mutineer biatch

sorry anna... raj isn't that great ... and this from the girl with the indian fetish who ADORES "half brownie half vanilla" babies... this one grew up into something a lil spoiled... imnsho... guys with bowties - hell, ANY affectation - just come off as a little too pretentious for me. And a player is a player is a player.

But I bet you of all people in this world could even make him throw his pretensions to the wind. :)

ps. look at his legs. *I* have more muscular legs than that. Silly stick boy. I could draw him in elementary school.

Andrea is, as always, correct. Twig legged, bow tied, raj -- a stud?

I will refrain from making a crack about how "attempt" is the operative word....South Asian Fascist Sistaz

Play on player
No diggity, no doubt

PS: I aint liberal pundit....but like Vinod there "generalisations" are the word...

Thanks, Sluggo. I never really bothered to clarify GC's baseless aspersions (that were later picked up by Vinod). What's the point of explaining to blogopaths like GC?

"Blogopaths pen lengthy tomes about every topic; they appear to blog 24/7; they pounce almost instantly at any slight or mention from another blogger; they are frequent "commenters" on other sites, always with links to their own blog; their blogs include "endorsements" by other bloggers, and so on....These [types] are unfulfilled people not unlike, figuratively, the homeless who rummage through garbage bins. Cyberspace is their alley, their raison d'etre. It gives them a reason to get up in the morning...the "bottom-feeders" of the blogosphere"

Curmudgeonly Clerk describes pathological commenters like GC as follows:

"Those who comment frequently seem to be emotionally and/or intellectually stunted and armed with a poor sense of style, grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Even when comment sections are not so afflicted, they are often littered with detritus."

Enuf said!

Delurking to say something here. I do not always agree with him. But there is no doubt that GC is the best writer on this site. He may be empathy challenged but he doesn't make spelling mistakes or logical errors. He always has interesting links in his comments. And you can disagree with his beliefs, but his deductions are consistent given his beliefs. He can be nasty at times but his sarcasm is the type you love to hate. He is the villain you end up rooting for. GC's well written and entertaining comments are one of the reasons I regularly read Sepia Mutiny. Just my 2 cents.

yeah. no hating on gc. communist fetish and all, he can get his arguments across. i bet he's hotter than raj bhakta.

or are you a she, gc? in any case...still hotter.

no matter. Raj Bhakta uber-alles. my heart is not awailable for the gc...which i'm SURE is fine with him. ;)