It is 2023 and social media is where we choose to spend the maximum time on. We read news items like women being subjected to crimes and loathe hard and at the same time we make memes and laugh where a man comes out as a victim. In a world where the meaning of feminism is lost, rather misused to belittle the other gender, the true essence of equality is missing.
‘Bigg Boss’ is the biggest example currently. When a female contestant cries, there are headlines on how she broke down and everyone sympathises with her. When Nimrit started the conversation on her mental health and breakdown, she found the support inside the house as well as outside. Whereas when Shalin spoke about his mental health, everyone was quick to judge him and call him fake, more so his tears won him the title of a good actor.
When a man uses cuss words, he is reprimanded, his upbringing questioned but the same if a woman does, she's touted as someone who takes a stand for herself.
This season made us witness a toxic relationship between that of Shalin and Tina where allegedly Tina was the one who continuously walked over Shalin for her benefit. Shalin was used for Tina's game. Everyone who came in on the show tried to alert Shalin, which includes Salman Khan who claimed in national television that Tina was allegedly faking it.
After Farah Khan entered as a guest and tried to put sense into Shalin, he straightened up and realised he was being played and finally started to play for him. During the rendezvous with Simi Garewal, Shalin finally said that he would choose anything and everything over Tina, that didn't go down well with her and she tried to allegedly rub Shalin the wrong way in the kitchen over chicken.
A frustrated Shalin vent out in front of Priyanka and mouthed some words that were muted, but that was enough for Tina's fandom to start trolling him. The same Tina, a few days ago spoke loosely of suicide. She said any girl who ends up with Shalin would allegedly commit suicide. She also spoke about slapping him but the same fans will not raise an issue. Imagine if Shalin had spoken about slapping a woman and the backlash he'd have to face.
We continue to live in a society where we are so wired to see a woman as a victim and a man as a perpetrator that we often oversee a woman who is toxic and uses her womanhood to gain sympathy.
‘Bigg Boss’ is the biggest reality show watched by millions of Indians, it is about time, an example is set that all men are not dogs and all women are not goddesses.
