‘Hey he is so cute yaar’! Well, I don’t understand how a
well grown man can be ‘cute’! a gang of
girls seating behind me keeps discussing how cute Ranveer Kapoor is in the
movie Yeh Jawani hae Deewaani . Interestingly, the cuteness becomes
universal when they spell the same for the heroine too!
How can a Bollywood hero (I thought it’s only a domain of ‘hot’ and ‘macho’ men) becomes as cute as the heroine? Or is it that the language is mutating? The code lingo for hotness became ‘cute’? I roll back to an era where a song was banned just because it had the word ‘sexy’ and immediately being replaced with ‘baby’! Not that pedophilic, but yes at that time baby was synonymous to hotness (same as ‘Honey’, for the babyboomers). So, in Facebook era, when a ‘bad word’ can break a potential friendship (a buddy, which has the wider possibility of future ‘dating’) right at Facebook itself, ‘cute’ seems to be a safer word to pronounce. Hence, right from the pets (‘oh that’s a cute puppy) to the coolest chap in the campus gets a chance to be coined as ‘cute’.
How can a Bollywood hero (I thought it’s only a domain of ‘hot’ and ‘macho’ men) becomes as cute as the heroine? Or is it that the language is mutating? The code lingo for hotness became ‘cute’? I roll back to an era where a song was banned just because it had the word ‘sexy’ and immediately being replaced with ‘baby’! Not that pedophilic, but yes at that time baby was synonymous to hotness (same as ‘Honey’, for the babyboomers). So, in Facebook era, when a ‘bad word’ can break a potential friendship (a buddy, which has the wider possibility of future ‘dating’) right at Facebook itself, ‘cute’ seems to be a safer word to pronounce. Hence, right from the pets (‘oh that’s a cute puppy) to the coolest chap in the campus gets a chance to be coined as ‘cute’.
