The movie Padmaavat has brought all kinds of virtue signalling, Hindu-hating and Islamic invasion loving liberals out of their lounge sofas and high tables. They gather around the imaginary moral high ground of their version of modern-day feminism and pass judgement after judgement on how the 13th-century queen of Mewar should have behaved.
Just when we thought we have recovered from Audrey Truschke’s relentless portrayal of Aurangzeb as Mr ‘oh so noble’, another wave of virtue signallers started pontificating. This time they were up against Rani Padmavati of Chittorgarh. Apparently, some self-proclaimed feminists have a problem with Rani Padmavati choosing to do jouhar and not be captured by Allahuddin Khilji. Yes, the advocates of “my body my choice” have a problem with a queen not wanting to be raped and turned into a sex slave. Irony just blew itself up!
If Meera-bai had listened to male trolls & female trolls of Rajputana she would have committed Sati for sake of ‘honour’. But she chose Krishna and danced and sang in Vrindavan. She chose divine life, rather than glamorous death. pic.twitter.com/odIFKNTZgc
— Devdutt Pattanaik (@devduttmyth) November 19, 2017
First, it was Mr Devdutt Pattnaik, who seemed to have forgotten that ‘Sati’ and ‘Jouhar’ are two entirely different things.
When Sanjay Bhansali’s movie ‘Padmaavat’ finally released after much difficulties, some liberated pseudo-feminists like Swara Bhaskar had an issue with the portrayal Queen Padmavati too. For reasons best known to them, they felt ‘reduced to a vagina’. We had published a rebuttal of Ms Bhaskar’s rants yesterday.
However, one Twitter user, Pratyasha Rath, decided to give the liberal feminists an entirely different reaction. Something that should delight them to no bounds. An ‘improved’ modern-day-feminism’ infused version of Padmaavat.
So here we present to our readers; Padmaavat- The Liberal Modern-Feminist version.
How liberals wanted Padmavati- Exhibit 1.
Rani: “Sisters, we are probably going to be raped and mutilated. But know what, we are more than our vaginas. Today, we should decouple our honor instead and just go for it”
Rajput Women: “Jai Ho, third wave feminism”
— Pratyasha Rath (@pratyasharath) January 28, 2018
How liberals wanted Padmavati- Exhibit 2
Rani: How do we know Khilji is bad? Is this what all the years of reading Crenshaw taught us? We are judging him from our point of privilege.
Rajput Women mutter among themselves: It is true. Intersectionality means Khilji is one of us
— Pratyasha Rath (@pratyasharath) January 28, 2018
How liberals wanted Padmavati- Exhibit 3
Khilji’s army enters the fort after defeating Rajput men.
(Song sequence)
Rajput Women freshly decoupled from honor sing….
“You may shoot me with your words
You may cut me with your eyes”Rani: But still, like air, I will rise!
— Pratyasha Rath (@pratyasharath) January 28, 2018
So Khilji’s Army enters the palace and because our liberals had a problem with Khilji being portrayed as a barbarian, in the feminist version, the women would rejoice at Khilji’s sight. Only patriarchal, regressive Hindus can see Khilji as someone ‘uncool’. How can he, when he ‘owned his sexuality’ to such an extent.
How liberals want Padmavati– Exhibit 4
Rawal Ratan Singh: Rani, Khilji is approaching. I am scared for your safety.
Rani: Oh please! You are just creating a trope of a bad Muslim to control my sexuality. Do you even realize how you are oppressing me!!
— Pratyasha Rath (@pratyasharath) January 28, 2018
And why should a Husband be worried about his wife’s safety? That seems to be the regressive thing to do. Hindu men and their silly masculinity, God help us!
How feminists want Padmavati– Exhibit 4
Rajput Woman: I would rather die on my own terms than live as a sex slave.
Rani: Hush sister. This is not you speaking. It’s your husband.
Rajput woman: But it’s me….
Rani: No dear. It’s internalized oppression. I can see it.
— Pratyasha Rath (@pratyasharath) January 28, 2018
Centuries of oppression has made us Sanghi women blind to liberation offered by invading armies. The plight of hundreds of Yazidi women in the modern world is just media misinformation anyway. The ISIS terrorists are not raping and torturing them, they are teaching them how not to limit their existence to their vaginas. Our liberals have the true knowledge.
How liberals wanted Padmavati–Exhibit 6
Rajput woman 1: I’v heard this Khilji has razed Hindu temples and has butchered Hindus.
Rajput woman 2: True. But, where’s your perspective? Look at his land reforms. Does socialism mean nothing to you?
— Pratyasha Rath (@pratyasharath) January 28, 2018
Yes, many of our Bollywood reformers think Khilji was beyond cool, he made roads and mosques. Who cares that he built them after ravaging Hindu temples? Here is an example:
How liberals wanted Padmavati– Exhibit 7
Rajput woman 3– So you say that if we refuse to submit to this barbarian, 4th wave feminists will judge us?
Rajput woman 4– Yes. Theyl say sex slavery n loss of freedom is a better choice
RW 3– How can they speak for us though!!
— Pratyasha Rath (@pratyasharath) January 28, 2018
Isn’t it what these ‘liberated women’ want? Yes, just to show Padmavati made a bad decision by committing Jouhar, they would rather praise life as a sex slave.
How liberals wanted Padmavati– Exhibit 8
Rajput man– I’v heard this Khilji has a harem of women he’s kidnapped. Sounds like a bad guy.
His wife– Yo. Check your privilege. Expression of sexuality should not be shamed. People who resist his charms are regressive, not him!
— Pratyasha Rath (@pratyasharath) January 28, 2018
In few brilliant tweets, Pratyasha destroys the modern-day pseudo-feminist propaganda of pseudo-activists who just cannot think beyond sex and sexuality. For our Bollywood thinkers, medieval history is nothing, warfare strategies and politics be damned. It has to be all about sexuality and its expression. Some decoupling indeed!
How liberals wanted Padmavati– Exhibit 9
RW 3: Listen i’v heard some male freedom fighters killed themselves coz they didnt want to be captured by the British. Why r they celebrated n why will v be mocked?
RW 4: Coz, we r women stupid! 4th gen fems know dat we hv no agency!!
— Pratyasha Rath (@pratyasharath) January 28, 2018
Ms Swara Bhaskar gloriously became a part of a movie that promoted stalking, falsely blaming a decent person for sexual harassment (the poor doctor in Ranjhnaa) and rejoiced getting slapped by the male lead in that movie. But when she saw Padmaavat, the activist in her suddenly woke up.
Overheard in the theatre–
Feminist 1– Hey, super woke Ma’am Bhaskar has said that Padmavati should be made in the context of the present day crimes against women.Feminist 2– She was in a movie which had glorified a stalker. No one better to know present day context better!
— Pratyasha Rath (@pratyasharath) January 28, 2018
So as Ms Bhaskar promoted the idea that sex slavery is better than suicide any day, Pratyasha caught that beautifully in another scene.
How liberals wanted Padmavati– Exhibit 10
RW 3: Rani, if he takes us there and uses us for sex daily, how are we more than our vaginas? Our life will be reduced to that.
Rani: Woman get a grip. We can sing, dance, sit in the garden, read Maya Angelou. He won’t need us always
— Pratyasha Rath (@pratyasharath) January 28, 2018
Finally, Pratyasha brings out the hypocrisy of self-proclaimed activists.
How liberals wanted Padmavati– Exhibit 11
RW 3: But, Rani…
Rani: She is a bigot, women. She talks too much.
We all know marriage is more oppressive than anything ever could be. If we have survived Karwa Chauth, what is Khilji.
Fear your family. Not Invaders. It’s a trap.— Pratyasha Rath (@pratyasharath) January 28, 2018
Hope we will one day get to see these scenes made into a real movie. A movie that will be the liberal, pseudo-feminist dream.
Meanwhile, Ms Bhaskar had another meltdown today. For someone who doesn’t want to be ‘reduced’ to a certain body part, she certainly is obsessed with it.
Funny that people cannot get over the fact that a woman said Vagina! Funny that in a 2440 word article making fairly comprehensible arguments they only remember the word Vagina!!! ? So… Vagina vagina vagina vagina vagina vagina……………vagina vagina VAGINA!!!!! https://t.co/pVh7rskZHL
— Swara Bhasker (@ReallySwara) January 28, 2018
