My parents had a terrible marriage, and I really think it was my dad’s fault. He simply didn’t like my mother all that much and wasn’t very nice to her. But he was good to her and my brother and me in other ways, a very good steady provider.

Anyway, my mother didn’t like her marriage and made my life and to a lesser extent my brother’s life absolutely miserable. When I was a kid, all she’d talk about was her problems with my dad. She used to run up huge phone calling her mother and sister and talk to them about her problems. She was utterly and completely self absorbed and always in a foul temper. She’d work herself up into a rage over things my father had said and take her anger out on me, that sort of thing. Honestly, even though I think she had reason to be angry at my father, I hated HER and not my father.

Anyway, my mother would periodically scream and cry and threaten divorce. She’s make a big show about packing suitcases. When we visited my grandparents, she’s scream and cry about not going back to my dad.

I don’t think she even once thought about her children’s happiness. In fact, one day she told me, I just thought about how awful it, the way your dad and I fight sometimes.

Anyway, they didn’t divorce, and I’m so glad they didn’t. After I’d gone away to college, they somehow came to some sort of understanding, and miracle or miracles now have a marriage which isn’t half bad.

I feel kind of angry wondering why they didn’t do that while I was kid, but whatever.

As far as aboriginal and untouchable (dalit) prostitution go, my understanding is that they are very very poor and they breed A LOT. Members of their communities (other aborigines and untouchables) or perhaps people outside their communities sell them into prostitution. And that’s how they make their living.

Yoga, again my understanding of it, has been that it has traditionally been a man’s discipline.

Do you have sex with random men just for the thrill of it?

Or is it something that only a tantric, Indian American yoga practitioner can understand?

Actually, we’ve always had words for these women. Those who are professionals are just that, and everyone understands. Those who are not are arguably far worse, considering the destruction they visit on families.

A female pickup artist is known as a “prostitute”. It has never been otherwise. That you practice yoga and bedeck your personal space with phalluses, therefore, is little surprise.

What’s that mean?

“Yoga is a default culture of India.”

Do Indian Muslims practice yoga?

I can host you in India because I’m Indian and our families and land are intact for several centuries, remember? We have ancestral land there. Ever heard of that? Probably not.

Ah, I see. My family has an ancestral fish and chips shop in Ireland, but I’m still American.

What does that have to do with “yoga” and your lies to the people that the only women in India who do yoga are “temple prostitutes” and if men do yoga alongside women they are considered “scum”?????

It was a poorly worded post. What I should have written was: men who would practice yoga with Yoginis (i.e. working out of a Yogini temple) would be considered scum, because they would be practicing with prostitutes, and would most likely be prostitutes themselves.

Answers please!

Now, now. Let’s be polite here. If you really want to correct and inform me and my readers, facts and examples are more compelling than fits of indignation.

Here’s an example of something you could have posted:

How yoga’s popularity in the West is changing the way Indians approach a practice created in their country thousands of years ago.

It shows that the kind of yoga traditionally practiced in yoga is being supplanted by the Western form, because ordinary Indians didn’t practice it much until very recently, and even now it’s mainly the upper classes.