Divorce Petition of a Frustrated Software Engineer

This is a work of fiction.

What if, a software engineer going through a bad marriage drafts a divorce petition containing statements like,

1. My wife is behaving like an uncompiled variable throwing runtime exceptions.
2. Every time I expect a performance from my wife, she throws an exception.
3. I tried my level best to debug my wife but could not.
4. The debugger crashes with null pointer exception when the variable called “Salary” becomes “0”.
5. I can’t “Step-Into” her.
6. She keeps on “Stepping-Over” me.
7. I want to “Step-out” of this marriage.
8. The “Break-Points” are too slippery.
9. Once suspended, she resumes with great cost.

10.  Maintenance cost is very high and upgrade is impossible.

11. Uncalled for viruses have got installed under the package “in-laws” and every time I try to uninstall the package it says, “Administrator privileges required to perform the operation. Please contact your system administrator”.

Fight for Justice – 2011 in review

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Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 22,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 8 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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Zomato TV ads promote violence against men: Virag Dhulia

Is India really a male dominated country? Is feminine gender the only victim of domestic violence and abuse in India? Not really, according to Confidare research, every year almost double the number of married men are committing suicides compared to married women.

GONE ARE the days when you thought that only fairer sex is the victim of domestic violence and abuse in India. According to a research by Confidare Men’s Rights Community Center, every year almost double the number of married men are committing suicides compared to married women.

Consolidated media coverage of Anil Kumble passport forgery case

Do you want men to behave like this?

Men have donned the role of a Protector for millennia to such an extent that now they are taken for granted to such an extent their violation of human rights of men is considered as a social service. See this ad below, what will happen to women if men start behaving like this, being exasperrated with the rampant social misandry?

Men are feeling pained with this slap – इस थप्पड़ से मर्दों को हो रहा है दर्द

Translated from original article

A friend asks a man during a party, “What’s the plan for new year?” And a tight slap lands on his face from his girlfriend, standing near him, as he fails to give proper response to the above question by his friend. Similarly, in another incident, a husband gets a tight slap on his face, instead of love, from his wife as he sits expectant in a room in front of the TV. After these slaps men are advised not to repeat the mistake of last year and they should buy these passes for New Year’s party this year.

Anil Kumble stands exposed – Accused in a forgery case

Tolerating wife’s torture silently – घुट घुट के सहते बीवियों के सितम

Translated from this link

Often it is heard that the life of a daughter-in-law has been ruined due to the harassment meted out by husband and mother-in-law. But why is it not common to hear that a wife has ruined the life of her husband and mother-in-law. Well, it does happen but these incidents are suppressed and never make it out of the house owing to male domination in the society. Men become victims of domestic violence and compromise in order to protect the reputation of the family. This is the reason that social organizations are sprouting up for men victimized by domestic violence.

As per these organizations the poor man, if he hits his wife he is violent and if he gets beaten up by her, he is a coward; if he fights after seeing his wife with someone else then he is jealous and if he does not react then he is indifferent; if he goes out of house, he is a wanderer and if he stays at house, he is useless; if he scolds his children he is torturous and if he does not then he is irresponsible; if he stops his wife from going to job then he is of suspicious nature and if he does not stop then he lives off his wife; if he listens to his mother then he is mama’s boy and if he listens to his wife then he is a henpecked husband.

Men’s rights NGO says Zomato ads hurt male pride, rights

Claiming that no objections are raised when men are shown in ‘derogatory’ manner in advertisements even as hue and cry is made if it happens with women, a men’s rights NGO has complained to the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) objecting to ads of a popular food guide Zomato demanding its immediate withdrawal.

Zomato portal operates an online food guide and launched a series of ads in promotion of the new year parties and special discounts wherein in a husband or a boyfriend is slapped by their female partners for not booking for special dinners or events.

Taking objection to it and claiming that it shows men in poor light, Save India Family Foundation (SIFF) complained against DC Foodiebay Online Services Pvt Ltd – which controls Zomato – demanding its immediate withdrawal.

Complaint filed before ASCI against sexist anti-male Zomato ads

To
Mr. Alan Collaco, Secretary General
The Advertising Standards Council of India,
219, Bombay Market,
78 Tardeo Road,
Mumbai 400 034

Sub: Complaint against sexist anti-male ad campaign designed by DC Foodiebay Online Services Pvt. Ltd.

Respected Sir/Madam,

Honorable Chairman,

DC Foodiebay Online Services Pvt. Ltd. operates an online food guide through its website www.zomato.com. It provides restaurant directory, and menu-pages Website for customers to dine out or order food in Delhi NCR, Mumbai, Kolkata, Pune, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, and Chandigarh. The address of this company along with the key contact person is as under

Mr. Deepinder Goyal
Level 2
K2/4, Behind Central Arcade
DLF Phase 2
Gurgaon, 122002
India