A video featuring Deepika Padukone—in which the Bollywood actress is advocating women empowerment was launched by a popular magazine Vogue —is now a viral hit.
What exactly was wrong with the video and the message it delivered ?
The video talks about the stereotyping that women from different walks of life face in their everyday life but the lines “It is my choice to marry or not to marry… It is my choice to have sex before marriage or have sex outside the marriage” have drawn criticism.This particular statement did not go well with the audiences. Several people were of the opinion that while sex outside of marriage is about morals, if taken in the proper context, sex outside of marriage is acceptable if the people in question are in an open marriage.
Vogue and Padukone are telling a whole generation of women to grow up with the choices they have made .But, how can two genders be so different that what is considered infidelity and sexism for one, becomes "choice" and empowerment for the other?
The video deserves attention because Deepika never objectify women empowerment so far.
The video can never be justified as empowering , not with Deepika Padukone hooking her bra, and most importantly never on the pretext of feminism.
The online video comes with good intentions but feels more needs to be done on women empowerment. It gave a very distorted view of what feminism actually stands for.