@ my God so much angry reaction.
I think I made it amply clear that I'm not judging women who choose to wear bangles. It is their choice and I respect that choice. I don't like any suhag symbols, and that is again my choice which I don't impose on any one else.
So I don't think I deserve a lecture on why women are weak or not weak for choosing or not choosing to wear this or that. By refusing me the right to reject these symbols, you are showing me the same lack of accommodation that you are accusing me of. Please cool off. If you read my posts, you will see that I have Very Politely suggested alternative ways in which the same bangle scene could have been shown.
The bangle throwing thing is very old, and as young girl students, I and others had in our time discussed this and wondered at the self-defeating gesture. If you think a weak -- in this case corrupt too --man needs to wear your bangles, what does it say about you? Over the years, these gestures have gradually been phased out.
Conformism and non-conformism evolve with time and some phrases which were considered acceptable earlier are no longer so. You cannot use the N word for Africans and Dalit has replaced Harijan as a more appropriate phrase. When Gandhi coined the term Harijan, it was his way of giving respect to the 'untouchable' community. But the community has its own reasons to reject the H word, so Dalit it is now.
If in a play or movie I find the screen play writers using the N word, I would expect that there should be proper justification for it. May be an arrogant, racist white says it and there is a reaction to it? If it is shown without caveats, it would be problematic. Of course, political correctness can itself provoke a backlash if overused, and this is currently being debated too.
The bangle scene is harmless and I said as much. My only wish was that the cvs had found an intelligent, creative way of showing it instead of perpetuating the stereotype. If BV is a vehicle for progressive message, surely I, as a viewer and as a woman, can expect this much?
I cannot understand why this should have led to so much angst.
I had stayed out of commenting for a very long time and I think I will revert to that happy position. As you said at the end of the day it is just fiction.