Not the torrents of spring but the queer and the unusual

There was a time when patriotism was revered. Lord Nelson who won the Battle of Trafalgar and in whose memory the Trafalgar Square in London was commemorated , was knighted by the Queen of England. That was something very aptly done to make perfect sense in all ages. But can we say the same a century after when a singer styling half like a male and half like a female, he or she (?) also gets knighthood bestowed on him. Even law was promoted in Britain supported by the honourable members of its parliament, to allow man to marry man and woman to marry woman, notwithstanding that such marriages would be unnatural. The purists and moralists stand to be isolated and incur the wrath of some articulate sections of people in the developed countries for criticising or opposing such gay marriages or homosexuality. So, we are passing through a time when even homosexuality is sought to be encouraged or legitimised as the right thing to do. But Sodom and Gomorrah, the two cities mentioned in the Bible and the Quran, were destroyed by God for practicing unnatural or immoral sexual behaviour. Surely, before they were destroyed the practitioners of such queer sex must have thought that there was nothing objectionable or naturally deviant with their conduct and their novel ways of sexuality needed to be only upheld and adopted by other peoples. Why are these things stated here? These are being discussed here because like in many other countries of the world the notions of feminism and, specially the idea that females should attain parity with males, are peddled with a lot of zest these days in Bangladesh. But in actuality it is becoming more like an advocacy for females not only to enjoy their rational or permissible rights but to surpass in the same. This is where the objections must come or where the shoe pinches. For example, on the occasion of the International Women's Day, it was reported in the press that a question was by some quarters posed why the same or equal number of female ministers in comparison to male ministers should not be in the cabinet of ministers in keeping with the principle of gender parity. But already Bangladesh has had a record number of female ministers in the present cabinet. But their contributions have left many people unconsidered about the compliance and efficiency of such ministers in companion with that of their male cabinet colleagues.