Boys Locker Room: Four More Shots Please Actress Maanvi Gagroo Write An Open Letter; ‘Misogyny Begins At Home’
While Boys Locker Room has sparked a debate on social media, Bollywood celebs are coming forward to give their piece of opinion. Four More Shots Please actress Maanvi Gagroo did the same and wrote a long open letter about the entire incident
Maanvi Gagroo has carved a niche for herself with movies like Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan, Ujda Chaman, Tu Hi Mera Sunday and her latest character of Siddhi Patel in the web show Four More Shots Please 2 added a feather to her cap. Maanvi Gagroo was applauded for the portrayal of this role and is currently riding high on success with name and fame in this humongous Bollywood industry.
Currently, an Instagram group chat called ‘Bois Locker Room' is making all the possible headlines everywhere. Reportedly, the chat room has some 20 teenage boys from South Delhi where they continuously send pictures of girls and objectify them in all the possible ways. While this topic has taken the Internet by storm, Bollywood celebs are coming forward to give their piece of opinion.
Four More Shots Please actress, Maanvi wrote a long open letter about the entire incident to The Quint portal. Her first line of the letter reads, “The measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls. – by Michelle Obama.” She got furious and had numerous questions to be addressed, she started her letter saying, “Yes, misogyny begins at home. It seeps through our words. It reinstates through our actions & it is enabled through our gender-based morality. No, we cannot absolve ourselves of responsibility by blaming it all on bad parenting because this is not the first or the only time a 'boys locker room' has existed. And it sure as hell won't be the last.”
Maanvi even stated “Every time you laugh at a sexist joke (sexism: noun; discrimination, prejudice or stereotyping on the basis of gender), every time you decide to save for your daughter's wedding but your son's education, every time you ask a rape victim what she was wearing and why she was out... every action of yours is potentially rewarding or punishing a young mind for their words and actions."
She further stated, “Why don't we see our men through that same lens of skewed rationality?” The letter further read, "Why have we placed a woman's 'izzat' in her vagina but no such yardstick for her male counterpart exists?! We live in a society that accepts assertion of patriarchy in more ways than we care to realise. Male privilege is real and male entitlement, a real threat. We need to do better than this. We need to bring our children up better. We need to adopt a Skinnerian model of punishing toxicity and rewarding empathy. We are shaping minds with our thoughts, words and actions. Every single moment." (ALSO READ: Four More Shots Please 2: Shibani Dandekar Sexy Selfie Gets E-Love From Kriti Kulhari, Maanvi Gagroo, Bani J, Lisa Ray)
Maanvi ended the letter with a powerful message “We have to do better. And 'boys will be boys' is just not gonna cut it anymore." Mumbai Police's official Twitter account has also expressed outrage on the incident by tweeting, "Boys will be boys - never an acceptable excuse earlier, will never be one ever after #StopThemYoung"
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