Katrina Kaif and Vicky Kaushal’s ultra-secret wedding is going on. So I knew that it was only a matter of time before Twitterati came up with their creativity. Within hours of their wedding confirmation by the media, Twitter came up with memes and other posts.
I checked some of the #VicKat wedding memes on Twitter, and to be honest, I enjoyed most of them. They were hilarious but, at the same time, harmless, notably those tweets about how the guests had to maintain the secrecy of the wedding.
Only thing left in #VickyKatrinaWedding is that , Saadi ke baad guest ki memory erase kar di jaaye ! pic.twitter.com/TKbeuBBYfD
— Sumit (@sumitsaurabh) December 4, 2021
Of course, it is entirely up to Vicky and Katrina to decide how they want their wedding to take place, whether they want to do it in front of the cameras or in private. Since the pandemic has been really tough on everyone, it doesn’t harm one to find a reason or two to crack up.
But then, I came across the same ludicrous formula. The same thing that Deepika, Anushka, and Priyanka faced when they got married. Something that only women face before a highly misogynist society. It made me feel guilty of checking that section altogether. Katrina’s supposed sex-life, past romances, and status as a ‘gold-digger’ or ‘woman who slept her way up’ were also made fun of through insulting memes.
Notably, this one tweet, sadly shared by a woman had been liked and retweeted by hundreds. Unfortunately, along with that came other nauseating sexist tweets intended as puns of Katrina’s private parts.
Katrina Kaif started her career two decades ago. She has been part of major hit films over the years like Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Dhoom 3 and Tiger Zinda Hai. She has a large fan base. She might not be perfect, both as an artist and a person. Critics and audiences still give a polarised response to her work as an actress. But, one cannot simply blink when it comes to her work in New York, Namastey London, Zero, and Bharat.
Moreover, she is a successful businesswoman who launched her beauty and makeup brand named Kay Beauty with Nykaa. She has spoken about giving women their dues with proper representation and budget. Dissing all that she has achieved over the years by simply associating with the men she was with is downright demeaning and misogynistic. No matter what feelings one has towards her.
This has been fed over the years, and almost all actresses faced this no matter how the critics responded to their work. After her marriage and childbirth, Aishwarya Rai‘s weight gain was a topic of interest. Ahead of the Deepika-Ranveer wedding, memes featured Ranbir made of her sex life. Even Priyanka faced her share of racist and sexist comments, notably this one out-of-taste piece. However, the author apologised for it later on.
All the posts that talked about the actresses’ sex life, as if they were in their bedrooms at the time, only projected the mentality of people in general. Sex is used as a sticker to plaster on women no matter what they do in life, independently or otherwise. A woman’s character is always in question. Her body, her circumstances are constantly questioned. Even in arguments that involve religions, communities, politics, or anything else, the most common way of countering is sexism that questions or assassinated women’s character and dignity. Additionally, men are never judged for their sex life or past relationships.
One tends to feel burned out and exhausted when exposed to this level of troublesome rhetorics projected as jokes that should be brushed aside or dealt with. I was often made fun of by my friends whenever something like this happened, saying that it was time to write another article… duh!
I would prefer if I never have to write rants dissing misogyny. I don’t expect people to change overnight, but the least they could do is think. Sexism and other forms of prejudice should not be trivialised or glorified in any context. They only feed into what is happening to women because not everyone will laugh it off as humour. People can enjoy a good sense of humour, but it shouldn’t come at the cost of any other community or gender. Context matters! In this case, the context is only to defame a person.