This Is Not a Gender War: Yami Gautam On Hrithik-Kangana Issue

“People have presumed that since he is a man, he must be the guilty party,” writes Yami Gautam.

Yami Gautam with Hrithik Roshan in a still from Kaabil. 

(Photo courtesy: Twitter)

Yami Gautam, Hrithik Roshan’s co-star in Kaabil breaks her silence on the on-going controversy between Kangana Ranaut and Hrithik Roshan.

What should’ve been a private discussion between the two concerned parties and possibly a courtroom battle, has swiftly become a media conversation with many from the film industry taking sides and passing judgments.

After Hrithik Roshan broke his silence on the issue, Farhan Akhtar and other celebrities also spoke about it. Yami Gautam took to Facebook to pen her thoughts as well. She wrote how we must not allow the issue to turn into a “gender” war.

“If the gender-card is allowed to take precedence over facts and objectivity, it will be a serious blow to the on-going efforts of getting women an equal standing with the opposite sex,” wrote Yami Gautam.

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Somehow, the tussle has turned into a gender war, with a certain faction of the society having already declared the man guilty. People have presumed that since he is a man, he must be the guilty party, since that is how it has always been. Men have oppressed women in one way or another for centuries, and it’s being presumed that it is the same in this case, too.

Yami Gautam shut down the “trial by media” which is currently taking its course.

Here is why this vilification of a man based on make-believe evidence is dangerous. If the gender-card is allowed to take precedence over facts and objectivity, it will be a serious blow to the on-going efforts of getting women an equal standing with the opposite sex. If this baseless trial-by-media is allowed to continue, where one party has been presumed to be guilty, there is a good likelihood that people might lose faith in this equal-rights-for-all movement that has picked up momentum in India only in recent years.

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Finally, she wrote that “just because this is a fight between a man and a woman does not mean it has to be a fight between genders. Making everything a gender issue can easily distract us from addressing legit sexist issues that plague our society”.

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