Indian Women with their Professions – biased and judged unfairly
Cutting straight to the point, Indian women were held at
different level of expectations compared to the Indian men when it comes to
doing their jobs at work. When an Indian man does his work, he is expected as
he is – a guy who is doing his job. No judgements were made towards his behavior and the society never links it to his culture or upbringing. Now,
this is a very different case for the Indian women.
If she comes back late from work after having a meeting or
chasing deadlines with her male colleagues – she is labelled a slut and
suspicions were casted upon her character. Indian men working hard late at
night were never an issue because – he is just a hardworking man – that’s all
to it. Now, let’s look at what KK does on daily basis – posting on feminism
issues and calling out on a man’s wrongdoings. One of the most disturbing
questions that we were asked on what we do is – Vithule sollithu
vanthuthingela? Ungge appa amma ku ithu teriyuma? (Did you inform your parents
on what you are doing? Do your parents know this) Like WTF? Why should we
inform our parents on what we do online? We are not under age kids who need
supervision to go online. Do Indian guys who slut shame girls online and watch
porn tell their parents and ask for their permissions first? Then, why do you
think grown up women like us need permission to do anything with our lives?
Now, we move on to Jo and her upcoming movie – Nachiyar and
the cuss words involved in it. Why should there be an exception in what
dialogues an actress can utter and an actor can utter? The Indian society holds
actresses to idiotic level of expectations, tying them to culture, beliefs,
olukum and etc when all these women are doing is to be professional. So, she
should never utter cuss words, always portray the naïve Indian woman who
adheres to Indian culture. God, forbid she goes against any of this – she is
shamed by dragging in – what her kids will think of her? What her husband and
family will think of her? But Indian actors (married or not) don’t have such
imposition. They are free to utter cuss words, romance any girls obscenely on
screen and do anything that the script demands – because they are simply doing
their job.
When Priyanka Chopra did an intimate scene in Quantico with
her fellow actor, some empty cans made noise but Hollywood directors don’t give
a fuck of Indian sentiment. PC couldn’t care less as well about the culture
guardians and went ahead with the scenes on professional basis. She made it big
and has launched her career ever since.
So, my question is why can’t we view Jo
cursing as a professional act – a part of the movie which the director has
deemed appropriate? Why view it offensive and ask Jo how she will explain to
her kids? My question is – why does she have to explain at all? Why? She did
what is expected of her on professional basis so why the fuck does she need to
explain at all? She doesn’t need to be ashamed of her character in Nachiyar or
provide any explanation to anyone. If the words are deemed vulgar, then the
censor board will do their job. But why we Indians are judging Jo when she is
just doing her job professionally? Why do you people expect her to behave and
uphold Indian culture when she is just doing her job? What do you think Rajni
tata will tell to his grandkids on why he is romancing a young lady 20-30 years
younger than him on screen? It is a job – strictly professional and why a woman
is being judged based on what she uttered on screen is really baffling. Indians
are still very far from giving equality to women and we still have a long way
to go for that to become a reality.
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