I guess one advantage is that it enables me to see things clearly and call a spade a spade. Today's episode showed what was apparent from the very first weeks of BB. Two common themes of disrespecting women and bullying. Something made light of and often manipulated by Hms.
Today, IMO Andy went overboard. He also disrespected women but was this the first time this happened? Ar,man and Kushal have regularly insulted women and disrespected them. I am also including homophobic comments passed by both. Salman has reprimanded them both but did it discourage them? Nope and why should it?
When Armaan insulted Ellie-Kamya and Prats supported Arman. They didnt stand up for a woman. Only Gauhar did and Tanisha made him apologise telling he was wrong and he needs to apologise.
The rest of the HMs made fun of it.
With regard to bullying Asif and Vivek are prime examples of what namecalling they were subjected to by Kushal mostly. In the Shaitan-angels task they crossed all lines of decency making him sniff underwear,shampoo his hair and put a 25 kg weight on his back with the excuse of task. I would have greater sympathy for Gauhar today if she had stopped the bullies then. If she had stood up for the right and said no lines are clearly being crossed, I would have stood up for her and said yes today Andy crossed his limits. But if allowing limits to be crossed is fair in Asif's case then why not Gauhar and Prats?
Because they are women? Then what happened to Tanisha wasnt going overboard? Calling her motibhains, flop , commenting on her figure etc etc and dumping ash, trash, powder detergent etc wasnt going overboard? Then why was Tanisha's push not justified?
I would support Prats and Gauhar today if they had stood up for women's respect then.If they had said: yes Kushal you did wrong. But that day everyone wanted to shame the women, enjoy her humiliation. Today Prats made a big deal about being called a party girl but she called Tanisha as the cheap girl we meet in clubs and that was okay..
I have been standing for women rights and against bullying from day one and I wont change my stand but today I am striving to find sympathy for the "victims" because they have been the perpetuators for so long. Yes Andy went overboard but in the name of the task Kushal and co have gone overboard several times. So if he does it, its fair but if its done to him is injustice.
Prats can name call a woman and taint her reputation but if someone says smthg to her it becomes an issue of women rights.
My only verdict: You reap what you sow. What happened today was a natural consequence of what has been happening for a lot of weeks?