2. The skin-color bias
In the same AMA session, one of the cheerleaders, Monika, also revealed that there was a severe bias rampant through the conduction of the cheerleading business; there has been a strict inclination towards fair skinned, or rather Caucasian dancers in this year’s IPL. For those of you who might be wondering what the foreigner is raving on and cribbing about, no it is not that Caucasian women are being rated superior above dusky women, it is far messed up beyond that.
Apparently, it is a policy that has been initiated now of late that there will not be any Indian women doing the dancing near the boundaries as it shows the “Bharatiya Nari” in a poor light.
In fact, as Monika said, “Sadly, there’s nothing I can do about that. If I refuse I’d be breaking my contract and they’d replace me with another white girl anyway… I went into this contract as a dancer, [but I’m] finding that I’m treated more as a sex object…I enjoy what I do regardless. But I wouldn’t renew this contract for another year unless things changed”, confessing the direness of the situation.
So, essentially, we are just not giving Indian women employment opportunities they are equally willing to shine at, we are putting up a ruse to supposedly defend the image of the Indian woman while regularly commoditizing that of women in general or that of Caucasian women, to be specific. Wow, just wow, at a loss for remarks at that really.
