Originally posted by: stardust2011
Sorry i disagree with your two points.
1. If Abdullah was referring to the caring aspect, he should have used a better phrase. Director should have used a better scene or conversation.. May be where abdullah was not feeling well or he was late to get home and Mahajabeen was worried. Then again, to expect Mahajabeen's positives in Shanzey when he is with shanzey and expect Shanzey's positive in mahajabeen when he was with her is selfish. Why compare the women who are as different as apples and oranges. The scene shown in the drama has been shown directly and indirectly in multiple dramas since decades. Where the modern jeans wearing girl is vampish and the one who agrees to whatever her husband says, never argues, wears traditional cloyhes is sati savitri. It is high time this false notion is put away. Propogation of this idea is what was cringey in today's episode.
2. "i really feel this 'feminism' is messing up mindset of people ...and should be used where required ..where a woman is being abused ...not where a woman is willingly doing things to please her loved ones ."
Clearly not. Sometimes people get oppressed and abused without even knowing it themselves. Someone looking at it from outside the relationship sees what the one in doesn't see. Lot of women are taught that once they have kids, ifanaging career and kids get difficult they should quit job. When you hear this throughout your life, when such a moment of decision making comes, they quit the job part-willingly. That's because no one ever showed them another option.. May be she could work part time, may be husband could quit his job, may be they work different shifts to run the house. But because of the decades and decades of conditioning, the option of quitting job comes naturally.
100 years ago, when someone's husband died, the wife lit herself on his pyre in the name of Sati,some of them willingly....50yrs ago, after the husband died, wife was supposed to spend the life without any colors and celebrations in the name of love & devotion for her husband... 10yrs ago, if a girl said No to a guy, it was supposedly considered true love if he wrote love letter in blood. In all these examples, the time and evolutionary level of the society drove what was considered 'normal' and what actions/decisions were made willingly.
Husband should not be expecting the wife to pick up his shoes, massage his feet etc as a daily chore. Especially never ask her to do it (which Abdullah did). If he does expect her to, then he should be more than ready to return the favor to his wife as well.
Father and Husband are not a great comparison. Because father-daughtet relationship is not that of equals. Father is always above the daughter in terms of relation, age, discipline whereas husband and wife are equals. Whatever a husband expects wife to do, he should be ready to do it for her. In any equal relationship, if you reverse the genders and the expectation or the request holds good, then that's equality.
Also, Father asking his daughter to do khiddmat is not okay if he doesn't ask the same from his son.