The Consortium of Pub-going, Loose and Forward Women - my heroes

You may or may not have heard of this, but there is this ultraconservative Hindu group called the "Shri Ram Sena" (the army of Ram - an Indian god, who is probably turning over in his celestial grave at the sight of his name being used by a group like this). They call them the Hindu Taleban, with some good reason.

These guys have decided to wage war on Valentine's day, because you know, it's SUCH a western concept, and destroys the chastity of demure young Indian women. Apparently the sight of young people actually falling in love and holding hands (gasp!) without their parents giving them off in marriage to someone they haven't met before is sending the old farts into conniptions. This attitude alone deserves a separate rant on this blog, and will probably get it soon.

But for today, here's saluting the The Consortium of Pub-going, Loose and Forward Women, a Facebook group that's urging women to stand up to these thugs, and go ahead and have that drink at a pub. They're also planning to send a bunch of these pink knickers to the Sena, which I think is a great way to neutralize these blue-balled sex-starved neandrathals (btw, chaddi - rhymes with cruddy with a real hard d - in Hindi means underwear. That's also a dig at another right wing group called the RSS, but we'll get into that later). I can just imagine their heads exploding (lousy but appropriate pun I think) at the sight/small/touch of these lovely undergarments...

Up yours, sexist pigs.