‘Fair’ opinion slammed

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Tracy McMillan seems to have connected with women across the globe with her reasoning on why women get it wrong when it comes to getting hitched. But men don’t quite agree with the Why You Are Not Married? author. Though her second book Why You Are Not Married Yet? is selling fast among the women folk, guys are not too keen on vouching her opinion.

“I think she is extremely presumptuous. In fact, the moment I heard about her ideas, my hair stood up. We guys — I mean men don’t know much about women but that doesn’t mean we can stereotype them and attribute their failure to certain reasons,” says Jimmy Xavier, head of the creative team — South at Radio Mirchi. He adds, “Perhaps Tracy had bad experiences so she is taking it out through her book.” Tracy bluntly says women at times are shallow, selfish, crazy, Godless and are simply not good enough. Female readers across the globe are in tune with the author and seem to agree with her.
As usual the urban male’s perspective is diagonally opposite. “To be honest, I think only idiots will read her book. Those who read definitely fall in the categories she has mentioned,” says a miffed Sundeep Rao, stand-up comedian. He says if women are reading stuff that is so ridiculous then they really belong to the category of women mentioned in the book. “If they are taking the advice, then they might do some good by jumping into a well,” he adds.
Whether it is the practical approach or the impatience or condescending attitude, men say women are human too, so give them the space. “You can’t control a person beyond a point. If she is a shopaholic, workaholic or an alcoholic as the author says, it doesn’t mean she will stay like that forever.

It’s a phase and she will get over it,” says actor Tilak. Many seem to agree and feel marriage is subjective and has nothing to do with women being the way they are. “A woman today is in no hurry to take a decision. If at all I need to re-look at Tracy’s pointers then I could, may be agree with her that a few women are selfish, but that’s not the case all the time,” says filmmaker Saad Khan.