TM,
I agree with your post, somewhat. Big Boss has a lot of "women" issues this season and the players too are propogating sexist views a lot of the time. It's not just about women though, I mean sexist, even when it concerns men. For example, in the earlier tasks, when everyone loved everyone and pretended to get along like a real family, the women would say stuff like " khaana banana auraton ka kaam hai, ye mard kyun kitchen mein ghusna chahte hain". This was by Karishma and Minissha and Diandra and Soni, at one point or another, when Puneet and Praneet wanted to cook, and do stuff in the kitchen. This is also gender stereotyping, so I don't see it only as a women issue. The girls, are equally very ok, with this gender stereotyping nonsense. Again, earlier episodes, when it came to being sevak, or sleeping on the floor, they have time and again, made comments on men being the ones to do it, because it's a man's prerogative to not let the women suffer hardship. They purposely nominated men to be sevaks, and I remember clearly, that Puneet said how women cannot sleep on the floor and it should be men to do so. Minissha was so shocked when she was chosen for sevak, and she aptly stereotyped when she said " main ladki hoke neeche soo-ungi". None of the girls are given toilet cleaning tasks, because it was said when choosing duties, how women should NOT have to clean the toilets, as it's a dirty task and men should do it. All the women complied to that view point.
So, this is a general attitude in ALL the housemembers who behave like men and women have different sets of rules in life. Pritam has very often said "women" oriented nonsense, so has Puneet. Salman himself has made fun of Sushant in a derogatory manner in the first week ka WKW, imitating his feminine behavior, simply because he is gay, and a man should act like a man? Calling out on his shorts and telling him to sit properly.
So I won't single out today's oath taking ceremony, but I would generalize that all of them, no matter how educated, how famous, how worldly -wise and intelligent they are, simply adhere to gender roles that are so defined in our country and the rest of the world. I don't blame them, because in our daily lives, on many levels, we do the same. Act like a man, act like a lady, don't cry like a women, don't be so manly.
And then of course Parineeti, where she really made a joke of the whole molestation issue with Ali. I wonder, why they didn't play a prank on Sonali, where Ranveer alleged that she molested him. If it was to be a prank, why not other way round? It wasn't to teach Ali a lesson or anything, it was a prank, so why not on a lady, instead of a man?
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