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wooThe omen pulls other women up – it’s empowerment. But internal misogyny and slut-shaming pay off more on YouTube. So it’s no surprise that Punjabi singer Simran Kaur Dhadli, who wrote and sang a song on ‘attention-seeking’ women, has garnered over two million views on YouTube in just four days.
Dhadli explains what a ‘good’ woman should look like in her new songbloody voice‘, released on 13 September. This is not a ridiculous Twitter thread that will be forgotten tomorrow, he wrote and sang a deeper problem Song The choices modern Indian women are making on the internet – the clothes they wear, the content they post, the Instagram reels they create and how much they ‘reveal’. The song sets these women apart from badly edited sepia-toned videos of traditionally dressed women – mothers, families, etc. sadly self-announced ‘Voice for the Women’, which sings ‘image-elevating songs’, has a lot to learn about feminism.
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The Punjabi song begins with the singer narrating a dream she had the previous night, in which she saw some women ‘clad in suits, salwars and dupattas’ trying to say something to her. “These girls who lower their eyes in front of their brothers, don’t raise their voice to their father, but then I came out of the dream and saw reality”, she goes on to sing.
Kaur further uses blurry images, Instagram reels and TikTok videos of women wearing revealing clothes that such women are ‘sick of their mind and taking off clothes just to be famous’.
“Mainu engaged in the mind, nowadays the girls have given money to sick …”, she sings in her song.
Simreen Kaur also used two examples of alleged bogus complaints by women who ‘ruined’ the lives of men – 2015 Tilak Nagar an incident of sexual assault in which the accused was acquitted of all charges against him, and a recent Lucknow incident In which a woman was seen beating up a taxi driver, while the latter said that she was not at fault. In the Lucknow incident, the ‘meninists’ took a back seat when they came to know that the driver is a Muslim and the woman is a Hindu. FYI, no feminist stood up for the girl or justified her actions.
But such examples are often raised by men to perpetuate thousands of other cases of sexual harassment.
why does the song vibrate
simiran kaur second songsurma‘ Recently, after becoming actor Vicky Kaushal, he became everyone’s favorite on Instagram. Video Which went viral. To be honest, I too was associated with the song, and was happy that a unique and powerful female voice was making a mark in the Punjabi music industry after a long time. I wish I was right, because her new song is far away from women empowerment.
Misogyny manifests itself in various ways, perhaps the worst when it is internalized and perpetuated by the women themselves. ‘Lahu Di Awaaz’ is the latest example of this. The song has divided people on the internet. For some, it is a supporter of traditional Indian or Punjabi culture, for others (like me), it is slut-shaming of women.
The comment section of the song just reflects how most Indians misunderstand the concept of feminism or choice. Users, mostly men (as expected), are describing the song as a ‘mythic’, an ‘eye opener’, a ‘masterpiece’, and a ‘true feminist song’.
Not just men, some women on Twitter also supported the new song, claiming that it is “just telling facts” and that youth are “degrading everything from morals to clothing”.
People always find the truth bitter. Simiran Kaur Dhadli is telling facts !! If you find this objectionable then you are also part of the problem. Our youth is dropping everything from morals to clothes. High time someone talked about it
— (@innitdarlingx) September 14, 2021
But another Twitter user said that “Women’s writing against women is the last thing” she wants to see.
Just when I thought Simran Kaur Dhadli was about to change the Punjabi music scene for women, she left Lahu Di Awaaz, which is shaming women. ️
The last thing I want to see is women writing against other women.— Dr. Navneet Kaur (PhD) (@_morphiine_) September 13, 2021
Punjabi poet Armaan Singh made a reaction video to the song on Instagram and said that it is a harsh truth that we as a community still blame women wearing or not wearing them.
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Of course, our country refuses to see women as objects, or objects, beyond their bodies. First, the women’s videos may have been taken without her permission and used in Kaur’s song, which is objectionable in itself – it’s another concept we don’t understand, privacy and permission. Second, why is the concept of choice so difficult to understand, especially in the case of women? Women can wear both salwar kameez and crop top.
Dhadli is trying to convey to her audience who an ideal woman is, and compares the women who are exposed on Instagram with freedom fighters and religious icons like Mata Gujri, Mai Bhago and Maharani Raj Kaur.
You are good if you wear traditional clothes, keep your voice low and live your life according to the ‘standards’ set by the society. If you have authority over your body then you are bad. Shouldn’t we criticize men who consume such material if it is a question of morality? The extreme version of this ideology is the Taliban.
The burden of ‘sanskar’ always rests on women.
Thoughts are personal.
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