Deepika Padukone’s “It’s My Choice” video created quite a
stir, and suddenly the online world was divided into two camps. We have a section of the audience supporting the video
calling it an accurate display of feminism, whereas the opposite ultra-orthodox camp lost it on the mention of the statement, “It’s my choice to have S*x inside or outside the
marriage,”. We also have a minority audience, few un-woke citizens like me who couldn’t comprehend the fuzz with regards to ansimple video. First of all, I am a champion of
woman empowerment and equality. I believe it’s not just the women’s job to
toil in the kitchen or being stereotyped into specific roles. In a social
fabric, where man and woman are both breadwinners of a family, it takes two
people and many adjustments to run a house like a well-oiled machine. My
idea of empowerment stops right there, I feel vulnerable and crave for
affection, I expect my brother/dad/husband to drive me around, I expect answers
to my questions when I am wailing like a small kid, yeah and I throw
feminism through the window at these vulnerable moments.
Any form of ‘ISM’ shouldn’t be one-sided. The idea of
feminism and the video itself has so many flaws, one of which is; if you have
the right to come home late or have S*x outside marriage, it is equally fitting for
your partner/brother/father to indulge in any of the said choices. Crying wolf
is not the thing to do, nor is the divorce; it’s their choice too, remember?. Anything a woman/girl can do because it’s her choice, the man/boy should also be able to
make cause choice is a self-indulgent term.
The controversial video:
