Kangana Ranaut Is Arguing With Shashi Tharoor About Paying Salaries To Housewives. It’s Resulted In Memes!
We’ve all collectively built this love-hate relationship with Kangana Ranaut. Love because, wasn’t she so amazing in Panga? And hate because, she keeps taking panga with anyone who’s available to engage, on any random topic. What’s more, she even boasts about her ability to engage in these ‘arguments’ over a myriad of topics. Sigh. After her Twitter banter with Diljit Dosanjh last month, which FYI, still continues, the Manikarnika actress is now duelling with another person on Twitter. If my fancy word usage (and his picture above) didn’t give it away, it is none other than our national English teacher, Shashi Tharoor. What is the topic, you wonder? It’s about paying salaries to homemakers, a cause raised recently by Kamal Haasan.
Last month, Kamal Haasan assured that homemakers would “get due recognition though payment for their work at home which has hitherto been unrecognised and unmonetised” if his party won the Tamil Nady assembly elections. Congress MP Shashi Tharoor voiced support for this endeavour on Twitter.
I welcome @ikamalhaasan’s idea of recognising housework as a salaried profession, w/the state govt paying a monthly wage to homemakers. This will recognise & monetise the services of women homemakers in society, enhance their power& autonomy & create near-universal basic income.
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) January 5, 2021
Also Read: Kamal Haasan Promises Women Payment For Work At Home.
Kangana Ranaut decided to counter his statement by pointing out that putting a price tag on everything that women do out of love, such as have sex with their husbands, being a mother to their kids and running their homes.
Don’t put a price tag on sex we have with our love, don’t pay us for mothering our own, we don’t need salary for being the Queens of our own little kingdom our home,stop seeing everything as business. Surrender to your woman she needs all of you not just your love/respect/salary. https://t.co/57PE8UBALM
— Kangana Ranaut (@KanganaTeam) January 5, 2021
Tharoor then proceeded for a rebuttal, stating that while he did agree with Kangana over not putting a price tag on everything, the idea was more about recognising unpaid labour, which would provide financial security to women who are otherwise dependent on the men in the family for their sustenance.
I agree w/ @KanganaTeam that there are so many things in a homemaker’s life that are beyond price. But this is not about those things: it’s about recognising the value of unpaid work&also ensuring a basic income to every woman. I’d like all Indian women to be as empowered as you! https://t.co/A4LJvInR4y
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) January 5, 2021
While Kangana offered no further replies to Tharoor, she kept clarifying her stance to other Twitter users who offered a deferred view point. As always, she seemed to steer the conversation towards notions like dharma, sanskaar and what not, instead of addressing the financial security aspect of it or suggesting better alternatives that she might have had.
It will be worse to reduce a home owner to home employ, to give price tag to mothers sacrifices and life long unwavering commitment,It’s like you want to pay God for this creation, cause you suddenly pity him for his efforts. It’s partially painful and partially funny thought.
— Kangana Ranaut (@KanganaTeam) January 5, 2021
How can one compensate for the lack of love/respect for home makers by giving them money? What if the oppressor snatches it and becomes more overpowering? People who treat their mothers or wives like house maids need value system and conscience that’s why Dharma is the answer.
— Kangana Ranaut (@KanganaTeam) January 5, 2021
See what I mean by weird? What does God and Dharma have to do with washing bartan and making 50 cups of chai a day?
Just when we thought that this couldn’t get any weirder and were thankful that it was at least being civil, Kangana Ranaut tweeted this very… erm… modest proclamation.
Lot of people are jealous of my ability to debate on almost any topic how I peel psychological layers of my opponents and penetrate like X ray in to any subject. Don’t be jealous or angry try and sharpen your intellect and really truly invest yourself in your surroundings 🙂
— Kangana Ranaut (@KanganaTeam) January 5, 2021
And then, Twitter just stole the show and did what it does best….Meme.
This is the best Kangana Ranaut parody account on Twitter. https://t.co/0NGL3xsQnW
— Joeygermeister 🍻😎 (@joeyp225) January 5, 2021
me after I write a paper I did 10 minutes of research on and get a grade above B+ https://t.co/GrL5ZW4iP3
— the tea (@runtherune) January 5, 2021
She doesn't realise she has an amazing sense of humour 😂😂😂 https://t.co/R4iaPjKjfw
— Sayantani (@SayantaniINC) January 5, 2021
I am once again asking for just a crumb of whatever she’s on please I want it https://t.co/HoUkw8CNbF
— KawaiiBloggerChan (@kawaiiblogger95) January 5, 2021
"The fundamental problem with the world is that the intelligent and sane people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
– Charles Bukowski (American Poet) https://t.co/iBFL8JFc3s
— Advaid അദ്വൈത് (@Advaidism) January 5, 2021
https://twitter.com/SRK_BaBaVOSS/status/1346403617289371651?s=20
Lot of people are jealous of my ability to debate on almost any topic how I peel psychological layers of my opponents and penetrate like X ray in to any subject. Don’t be jealous or angry try and sharpen your intellect and really truly invest yourself in your surroundings 🙂 pic.twitter.com/S2amTxnvug
— Shreemi Verma (@shreemiverma) January 5, 2021
Jokes aside, both sides of the argument have a point. But not as Kangana Ranaut makes it. While securing homemakers financially seems like an initiative long overdue, there are a lot of cons to it. The biggest being that the idea in itself is sexist and patriarchal, because you are cementing a particular gender with housework, when it is trying hard to escape it. Kangana does make a fair point about these homemakers being exploited for this income, just like even now, the different government reservations for women are being misused by the women’s male relatives to grab at incentives. Moreover, this could work if we were striving at a more gender-neutral arrangement, where the homemaker could be a man too.
For now though, let’s hope Kangana Ranaut and Shashi Tharoor don’t have a debate as long as the former did with Diljit Dosanjh. We’d hate that. Or would we love it?
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