Coughing up blood and drinking cranberry sherbet

The other day, a very striking topic was touched upon during dear Nevşin Mengü’s broadcast.

In the TV series 'Kızılcık Şerbeti' (Cranberry Sherbet), which has become a phenomenon with every episode recently, secular women fall in love with characters whose lifestyles and views are the polar opposite of their own…

Nevşin said;

‘In this series, all the women throw themselves at the feet of Islamist men. The secular men are bumbling, can’t make a living, and wander around aimlessly. But the Islamist men take care of their families and earn money.

It’s actually a series that looks like political Islam propaganda disguised as secularism.

Kıvılcım says how well she gets along with Ertuğrul on every subject.

How do you get along, brother, what subject are you talking about?

One prays, the other drinks alcohol; what common topics do they get along so well on?

Kıvılcım was a teacher, does the subject of the 78 hours of religious education in schools never come up?’

This is a very meaningful perspective. It makes you think…

At first, you say, ‘No way! It’s not that bad’…

Then…

You start to think and analyze…

Some have already started saying ‘let’s boycott’…

The habit of boycotting what doesn’t suit our interests is at its peak…

Remember the early days when it started…

The RTÜK fines, the broadcast suspensions…

At that time, another segment was also saying ‘let’s boycott’…

Should we not boycott and turn into stone instead?

There is certainly some validity to Nevşin’s commentary. Let’s talk about this, let’s discuss it…

I wanted to look at it from another angle today…

Each of us was born from the relationship between a woman and a man.

Take a look at your mother and father, your family.

Or your own relationship…

How different are you from your spouse, from the person you are with…

Your families, your upbringing, the values you were taught, your view on religion and faith, your view on money…

Yes, in a relationship, there is sometimes a dependency on one side, the habit of making their truths your own, pretending as if…

It has to do with that person’s own self-confidence and existential issues… and this often has nothing to do with education or financial independence.

Two people raised in completely different families and conditions trying to become one…

Rich woman, poor man; poor woman, rich man; university graduate, non-graduate; raised in a big city, came from a small town; one who drinks, one who doesn’t; family is secular, family is conservative…

These distinctions and examples go on and on…

We have been forced so much to be in the same place if we are the same, and in separate places if we are different, that we have forgotten that the hearts of a secular person and a conservative, a Christian and a Muslim, an Alevi and a Sunni, a believer and a non-believer can also beat together…

Let’s criticize the series, let’s discuss what it is pumping into us, fair enough!

But let’s not forget the possibility of two different hands and hearts meeting and uniting, and beating even stronger together…

Let’s not say we are coughing up blood and drinking cranberry sherbet…