A tragic, disgraceful witch hunt is playing out in India right now, as three politicians from a morally conservative party were forced to resign yesterday after they were caught watching pornography on a cell phone during a state assembly session. As a professional blogger, it makes me sick to my stomach to learn that even in this day and age, some men aren’t allowed to watch porn at work. STOP THE PINK SCARE!
News channels broadcast footage showing Karnataka state Minister for Cooperation Laxman Savadi sharing a porn clip with his colleague C.C. Patil, the minister for women and child development, while sitting in the state assembly.
Cooperation, women, and child development! Porn requires all of those things! This is important research! They don’t even say what kind of porn it was, maybe it was really tasteful, like a duke and a duchess doing anal.
The owner of the phone, state Minister for Ports, Science and Technology Krishna Palemar, also quit.
“We are requesting the honorable Speaker of the House to conduct an inquiry and we’ll come out with a clean chit,” Patil said, denying that they were deliberately looking at porn.
The three men said they did not want to cause any embarrassment for their party, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which rules the state and is in opposition at a national level. [Reuters]
Ah, the old “whoops, I didn’t mean to look at porn” defense. Yeah, I don’t know what happened, it’s probably a problem with the phone, you should call tech support. You don’t even need a phone for that in India, just shout. (Haha, good one, Jay!)
“I don’t favor women wearing provocative clothes,” C.C. Patil, minister for women and child development in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, said last month.
To add to the irony that Patil had recently advocated for a women’s dress code, India last week announced it was censoring Google and Facebook, in large part because of worries about pornographic content appearing there. [WashingtonPost]
I like to imagine that there was a dramatic pause after “I don’t favor women wearing provocative clothes,” and suddenly he shouted “…I don’t favor women wearing ANY clothes!” and then scraped his pick down the neck of the his electric guitar and ripped tasty licks while some hot naked babes burst through the wall playing nerf football like a beer commercial. But the reality is, he’s probably just some hypocritical dick. Still, let us not, in our haste to expose scorn-worthy hypocrites, encroach upon a man’s God-given right to watch porn at work. That would be a grave mistake. This man’s crime is hypocrisy, not porn watching.