Jha ji and moustacheJha ji is proud of his thick moustache. I don’t have one. I mean I shave it regularly. But that doesn’t mean that Jha Ji can insult me. Last Sunday evening, while having our evening tea he exclaimed:
“mard ki mooch na ho to wo namard hai tiru ji. Look at you tiruji he he he, i mean, you look like a chakka without your mush and with your long hairs he he he just joking tiru ji…don’t mind”
The tea stopped in my mouth.
Asshole! What does he think? Do I look like a chakka to him?
And yes, I do have long hairs but that never means I have to grow a mush too. But this is not a time to react. Let me think. Surrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr….tch…I made the noise as I gulped the tea. I am a student of psychology and Jha ji takes my word on psychology anytime.
I retorted:
“Jha ji, let me today explain to you the psychology of mush growers. When a child is developing psychologically, it passes through three distinct phases in sex identity. The first is called gender identity. In this phase the child learns that the child is a male/female based on its sex organs and as the society tells it. Once this understanding is formed, the next stage is gender stability. In this stage, the child understands that it will remain a male/female all through its life. That is, the child understand that it is this way as it is. The last and most important stage is called gender consistency. In this stage it understands that irrespective of what the child does, the sex won’t change. Let me elaborate Jha ji. You may observe that children don't enjoy mixing with the other sex during some stage of growth. Like boys will not play with dolls. They will hate going out to play with girls, they would try to show off all male styles. Tell them to wear a skirt and they will take offence. This is because the third stage of understanding has not yet developed. They think that if they do sissy activities they would lose their male sex and will become female. Now, let me come to mush issue. There are some kids in whom the gender consistency development is not proper due to various psychological causes. They get fixated there. So after growing up they tend to show off outward symbols of machismo to defend their fear of sex conversion. This fear is subconscious. The biggest manifestation is through moustache. You see the people who have mush. They will touch and twist their mush again and again. Just checking whether their sex is still the same or not. Its like checking your sex organs again and again to see whether you are still of the same sex. The fear of not having developed gender consistency you know”
“Jha ji, let me today explain to you the psychology of mush growers. When a child is developing psychologically, it passes through three distinct phases in sex identity. The first is called gender identity. In this phase the child learns that the child is a male/female based on its sex organs and as the society tells it. Once this understanding is formed, the next stage is gender stability. In this stage, the child understands that it will remain a male/female all through its life. That is, the child understand that it is this way as it is. The last and most important stage is called gender consistency. In this stage it understands that irrespective of what the child does, the sex won’t change. Let me elaborate Jha ji. You may observe that children don't enjoy mixing with the other sex during some stage of growth. Like boys will not play with dolls. They will hate going out to play with girls, they would try to show off all male styles. Tell them to wear a skirt and they will take offence. This is because the third stage of understanding has not yet developed. They think that if they do sissy activities they would lose their male sex and will become female. Now, let me come to mush issue. There are some kids in whom the gender consistency development is not proper due to various psychological causes. They get fixated there. So after growing up they tend to show off outward symbols of machismo to defend their fear of sex conversion. This fear is subconscious. The biggest manifestation is through moustache. You see the people who have mush. They will touch and twist their mush again and again. Just checking whether their sex is still the same or not. Its like checking your sex organs again and again to see whether you are still of the same sex. The fear of not having developed gender consistency you know”
I saw Jha ji going pale. He smiled and didn’t say anything. I didn’t see him for next few days. I too am busy with my mains preparations. While coming to the net parlour now, I saw Jha ji. His mush is gone. For once, I have an odd feeling. Without mush, Jha ji indeed looks like a chakka.
(Maaf kijiyega jha ji…but I had to write that line. he he…don’t mind)
Tiru
