By Sharanya Gopinathan
Oh god, how did we miss this in our round up of vaanthi International Women’s Day messages? Yesterday India’s penultimate circus clown Ram Gopal Varma outdid himself with his stupid tweet about Sunny Leone on Women’s Day.
I wish all the women in the world give men as much happiness as Sunny Leone gives
— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) March 8, 2017
He went on to address all the flak he was receiving because of it, saying that Sunny Leone has more self-respect that anyone, and then quickly tried to hide and look like a detached observer of human nature or something.
Soon making short film on exposing sanctimoniousness of extremely antithetical multifarious perspectives on the phenomenon of @SunnyLeone
— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) March 8, 2017
A complaint was filed against him for the tweet, and a film association, the Film Studio Setting & Allied Mazdoor Union, has decided to boycott him over the tweet. Later Ram Gopal Varma was wondering on Twitter if there’s a Women’s Night like how there’s Women’s Day. What a great mind.
Sunny Leone, of course, wasn’t going to just let it fly, and she addressed the issue with characteristic elan (remember the time she set a vaanthi uncle straight on live television?). In a short video posted yesterday, she said just one voice can’t change the world, and that she reads all the news, “so be careful with your words.”
Ram Gopal Varma offered an apology that was based on some conditions.
Was just expressing my feelings but I apologise to all who were offended due to my unintended insensitive tweets in context of women’s day
— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) March 9, 2017
My apology is only to those who genuinely got offended and not to those who ranted for publicity nd threatened to take law into their hands
— Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) March 9, 2017
March 10, 2017 at 2:18 pm
Interesting turn of events; her reaction to his first tweet seemed like she took it lightly, as a joke, when she posted this tweet with wink emojis ( https://twitter.com/SunnyLeone/status/839343948065755136 ), and then it took her a day to record an ambiguous video about choosing one’s words wisely. Also, RGV’s apology came 4-5 hours before her video. I don’t support his behaviour but this had to be pointed out 🙂
March 11, 2017 at 10:42 am
So many men feel entitled to make such irresponsible comments .
It doesn’t matter that he passed this slur on Women’s day. Saying it on any day of the year is reprehensible enough.
Just when you think we’re taking baby steps in the right direction where women can be recognized for their humanity, along come such men reducing them to objects and fantasies all over again.
It’s not that RGV said this that makes this bad. It’s that many, many men think like this.
A conditional apology is its own mockery. Seriously, Indian men need a mega-dose of sensitivity training.