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Your Choices - My Take : An Analysis Of The #MyChoice #VogueEmpower Video

The ‘My Choice’ video which features Deepika Padukone and other high-class woman marketing Vogue Empowerment is what we call a genuine much ado about nothing. The video which is supposedly was made to gospel the ideology of feministic expansion is completely blown out of proportions. It impugns a base-less sense of self-righteousness focusing on sex, clothes, pregnancy and choices based on surrealistic appetite through ultra-feministic purview.

            The 2 minute 34 second monochrome video, apart from addressing the viewer with an innuendoes ‘you’, also attributes a  ‘they’ which is a hypocritical reference to the notorious class of men who beat and abuse and torture women. That’s not all; the video satirically ends up amalgamating the ‘you’ with ‘they’. So all in all, the video becomes a deceitful presentation uniting all men and illustrating manhood as inhuman and irrational.

But ironically we Indians are as stupid as the video. The video is titled ‘VogueEmpowerment’ and not ‘WomanEmpowerment’. The absolute synonyms for the word vogue are fashion, trend, craze, fad, style, etc. So all you men raising your noises have clearly misunderstood the title. The other irony lies in the fact that the whole team which made the video, apart from the casting crew, consists mostly of males. So you see all the folk behind the curtain singing a dubious tune of Vogue Empowerment are all men.  

A screenshot from Dictionary.com app

The opening shot of video, carrying the credits doesn't seem to have any female names.

But to straighten up things, the only good object I watch within the video was at its end which related both men and women as snowflakes, which portrayed both men and women as an equal entity. Focusing more on the term ‘empowerment’, empowerment of a certain class within a society cannot be initiated by handing over choices or power to that class but by inducing an environment of equilibrium such that the certain class understands, develops and uses its own power to achieve empowerment. The antidote for a patriarch society is not over-dosed matriarch social order but equality.

Let’s not make the word feminism synonymous with man-hating. True equality can only be achieved by accounting everyone in the same way, regardless of race, gender, faith, ethnicity - or political ideology. Human relations are driven by understandings, compromises and sacrifices and not by exclusive choices. 

PS: The views, opinions, positions or strategies expressed by me are true to my belief. Any intent of hate or discrimination is not intended.

Is She Really a Bitch?

You call her a bitch just because she talks more with boys. Do you know how much alone she has been in her life?

You term her characterless just because you can see her with anyone. Do you know how many unknown battles she has fought to have friends in existence?

You point fingers when you see her laughing outrageously in public. Can you even imagine how she has managed to smile even after prolonged troubles?

You comment on her dress, stare at her and say things which cannot be expressed. Do you know how stupid it feels for her to be mocked unnecessarily?

You say she’s got attitude because she talks with none. Do you know how broken she has been in the past?

The fact is that each one of us, disregarding our genders, has our own stories, our own battles, and our own troubles in life. Its just that girls/women miscalculated by what they depict. We humans have this senseless quality of judging girls/women and prejudicing ourselves with stupidity. We discuss about rapes, eve-teasing, molestation. We even raise slogans and organize candle march. And after all that we fall back on our shitty mindset by judging women.

Next time when you see a girl/women roaming out with males, the next time when you term her characterless, the next time you comment on her dress make sure you know she’s a human too who needs not to be judged.