Apologize for the long post but couldn’t resist saying it.
Whenever a baby/child/girl or a woman is molested or raped we’ve come together in unity, light candles and protest. We debate for days on creating a safe environment for women. We hold placards on how instead of asking our daughters to not wear short clothes, we teach our sons to not rape. We talk about raising kids to respect each other. Treat each other with dignity. Educate them so that they understand the difference between love and lust, so that they understand that no means no. We make movies like Pink and hope they teach the masses the same.
What happens next? .. we forget. After we forget we glorify the very people who treat women like objects and worship them.
Colors, Bigg Boss 13 is a classic example. Right from day one we’ve glorified Siddharth Shukla and loved him treating Shehnaaz as his toy and then throwing her away. Just like a spoilt little kid who loves playing with his new toy car his parents brought him and when done throws it in a corner forgotten. Day after day we’ve shown a man who has satisfied his lust on national tv. And today he throws her away. We've created a hype around it and made people worship him. We’ve glorified “Aisi ladki” And made made fun of a woman who detested it to the core. We let him use Aarti as per his needs not caring that that girl actually had a panic attack. Glorified him and Paras pass cheap comments on Shefali while in the secret room. We’ve made all these women a laughing stock on national TV. But we’ve glorified him and justified his actions weekend after weekend because he is the one earning us the moola. The rest are just pawns.
We’ve given a clear pass to all those perverts and roadside romeos to justify their actions. WHY? Because, The channel Colors who once was known to the raise social issues seems fit to justify it. Media influences people. Ok to look for profits but do we ever draw a line?
At the end of the day when we support such people and actions we have no right to protest about safety of women because we as a society are a classic example of being hypocrites and 2 faced.