This year’s International Women’s Day sure turned out to be a heavy one for Mira Rajput, wife of Bollywood superstar Shahid Kapoor.
The 23-year-old new mother was invited to speak on a national platform to represent women who have found companionship via arranged marriage. Her comments did manage to stir a lot of people but unfortunately, for all the wrong reasons.
“I had a tough pregnancy. I went through those five months of difficulty to bring my daughter into this world and now, want to spend every moment with her, Mira confessed. “I love being at home. I love being a mother to my child. I wouldn’t want to spend just one hour a day with her and rush off to work. Why did I have her then? She is not a puppy. I want to be there for her as a mother.”
She further asserted, “Feminism isn’t woman versus man. It’s about equality. A new wave of feminism has come that is aggressive and I feel it’s destructive. There’s a term called ‘feminazi’, which is the female equivalent of a chauvinist. I think there should be harmony between the two sexes.”
Since then, Mira has been receiving much backlash, especially from working women enraged by her “puppy” remark. Others have been pointing out that Mira speaks from a privileged pedestal and that not everyone has the luxury of opting out of a job to stay-at-home.
The latest amongst these women is a former classmate of Mira’s from Lady Shree Ram college, where the latter completed her undergraduate degree from, reported Yahoo! The classmate has penned an anonymous letter implying that Mira was a snooty and snobbish person in school who judged others based on their body size and fashion sense.
In the rather explosive letter, the writer has questioned Mira’s morals and knowledge of feminism. It goes as follows:
Dear Mira,
Having watched your interview, I feel extremely enraged today. I’ve spent three years in the same college batch as you. I can say today, with confidence, that your idea of feminism is extremely flawed. Seeing you walk around with your posse in college, belittling women who were not skinny enough or did not subscribe to your fashion ‘standards’ makes me wonder what you ever did to have a moral high ground over anyone, at any point. Your narrow world view is astounding to say the least. And not to forget, how your statement about working mothers takes us years back in reaching actual empowerment, of which you seem to know nothing.
With lots of aggression,
An informed feminist.
Looks like Mira pissed off a lot of people around the globe.
