How Nalayini & Kannagi make the lives of women hard today

You have to accept that in our society, a man committing adultery is seen in a far lesser gravity than a woman as evidenced by Lakshmi short film controversy and caustic criticism of a woman having an affair because of a loveless marriage and an apathetic, selfish husband. Films like Chinna Veedu, Pachaikili Muthucharam and Sathi Leelavathi didn't receive any condemnation - because it's the men doing adultery, in fact they had tacit approval. This is due to women like Kannagi and Nalayini who are celebrated as the ideal wife and woman, enduring abuse and fulfilling their husbands' wants which include going to get laid with prostitutes. Few movies like Marupadiyum punished adulterous men but very passively - not aggressively. Always the wife accepts the pattu thirunthuta purushan back crooning "Vella manam ulla machan, vilaiyadi oonju vanthan." Which movie showed a man accepting his thirunthuta pondati, as in "Vella manam ulla machi.. vilayadi onju vantha.."

Forget movies - there are so many real life cases of Malaysian Indian men killing and slashing their wives in public over suspicion. How many videos we have seen where Indian men slap and beat their girlfriends, abused verbally and forced to drink urine over non-evidenced, questionable disloyalty tagged by Indian Facebook pages titled, "A lesson for every girl," Till now, I didn't see any Indian woman shaming an adulterous husband or a two timing boyfriend over questionable suspicion and posting video of the shaming on Facebook so that it will be a lesson for every guy. More often than not, the woman is blamed for being a stupid bitch who is unable to find a good guy, dismissed as girls only like bad boys and shun good, sokka thangam boys and that she failed to please her husband hence him straying.

The same society wouldn't accept the initiation of divorce from a woman if she cites that her husband isn't caring and the marriage is loveless - ithukellam divorce pannuviya? Adjust pannitu po. An Indian woman, if she files divorce because she fell in love with another man, just want to live a free life, pursue career, have an affair or simply leaves a marriage, earns her the slut status, oru ambala kaanathu, pullaiya pathi nenechala, ava santhosam dha mukkiyam nu poita - movies examples, Rosappoo Ravikaikaari and Endrendrum Punnagai. While the former woman committed suicide, the other woman is used as a benchmark to hate women by Jeeva. Any guy committed suicide because of an extramarital affair or get the hate status? No. How much Amala Paul, Soundarya Rajinikanth and DD are shamed for getting a divorce. Then the same boneless tongue say that Lakshmi should've gotten a divorce and marry whomever she likes instead of having an affair. If she did, you think anyone will call her pattini in our society? Pattini means being like Kannagi and Nalayini. Anything other than that is thevidiya munda. Women are either goddess or whore - there is no allowance to be a human being with rights, flaws and can feel pain.

So, if you want don't want to sound like a big fat hypocritical lentil you either make it ok for Indian women to divorce for whatever reason, change the double standards and not expect women to be like Kannagi and Nalayini or STFU because things are grossly unequal.

If you didn't oppose, edhukku pondati, enne sutthi vappati, minor kunji, chinna veeda varatuma periya veeda varatuma shit, you don't have the rights to condemn Lakshmi.

Persecute men, women, LGBTQ equally for adultery and don't be apologists to men who stray and not go manalaney mangaiyin baghyam and kallanalum kanavan, pul analum purushan and we will STFU.