Though this problem would not arise for Alia with her shield of class and caste privilege, the vitriol directed at her really falls directly into the share of women who do not have these benefits. Since you checked the calendar KRK, did you by chance notice it's 2022? The world has moved on.- Kajol Srinivasan - Ticked off Peasant November 7, 2022 Everybody knows pregnancy is actually a marathon and that’s what KRK wanted to congratulate the couple for finishing.
The possibility that Alia got pregnant after premarital sex thus spurred countless Instagram comments, news articles and caused one KRK to tweet: “Congratulations to #RanbirKapoor and #AliaBhatt for becoming proud parents of a beautiful daughter within 7 months." The “7 months" clearly had to be mentioned because doing it in nine months wouldn’t have been as worthy of congratulation. On one hand, there is an entire generation with the light in their eyes fading amid a deluge of 1-AM “u up?" texts on dating apps, and on the other, there are women- even as privileged as Alia Bhatt- whose bodies are policed with an iron fist by virtue-vigilantes. A man having sex before marriage is not a subject of discussion because why would you discuss something that occurs naturally in society? What deserves to be discussed, of course, is a crime, which is what a woman seems to commit when she sleeps with someone before marriage.Īs writer Arundhati Roy puts it, India lives in several different centuries at once. In India, a variety of actions, gestures, and non-actions are considered transgressive, with premarital sex (or any kind of sex at all) between straight couples meaning a medal for the man and a loss of virtue for the woman. So, when Alia and Ranbir welcomed their child into the world, the internet counted backward and arrived at the conclusion that Alia must have been pregnant months before her wedding. Even though it’s ironic to say that the celebrity class that sits pretty atop our social ladder is in some way oppressed by the masses, matters are complicated by the predatory gaze of misogynists on the Internet.
Maneuvering a private life under the constant focus of the public eye has proven troublesome for celebrities since the phenomenon of celebration started. When Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor tied the knot, social media users felt they somehow had a stake in the proceedings even though they distinctly didn’t.
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