Do not want to be with Misha for an hour and rush to work, she is not a puppy: Mira
Mumbai: At an event celebrating International Women’s Day, film star Shahid Kapoor’s wife Mira Rajput spoke about being a proud homemaker and revealed her plans on raising their daughter Misha Kapoor in a way that may not go down too well with working mothers and especially with women who choose professional goals over domestic life.
The celebrity wife claims to wear the ‘housewife’ tag with pride and has no qualms about staying indoors and being there with her daughter as she (Misha Kapoor) is not a puppy. While are intentions are noble, the choice of words are questionable.
Explaining the kind of environment she wants to create at home, Mira said, “I had a tough pregnancy, I went to those 5 months of difficult times to bring my daughter into this world. So now I want to spend every moment that I can with her and I think there is a set of responsibilities around my plate and I feel at my age I have a lot more energy, I have my future ahead of me, so I can finish all of my responsibility and I have nothing in my way. I can raise my daughter, I can be a good wife. Nothing will stop me after that. I love being at home, I love being a mother to my child, I wouldn’t want to spend one hour a day with my child and rush off to work, why did I have her? She is not a puppy; I want to be there for her as a mother.”
There is nothing wrong in wanting to be a homemaker fulltime but to compare your child to a puppy is plain nasty and insensitive. While Mira is adamant that she wants to ‘finish her responsibilities’, ‘be a good wife’ and ‘set up her home’, she thinks being a working mother is a choice that is equally valid and nothing to be shamed for.
“I have a set of responsibilities on my plate and my future is ahead of me. I can finish all my responsibilities and then I will have nothing in my way. I can raise my daughter, be a good wife, and set up my home the way I like. I wouldn’t have it any other way… Empowerment means you have the right to choose. So it’s my choice if I want to be at home. And it’s someone else’s choice if they want to be a working mother. But both are equally valid and neither of them should be shamed,” she added.
In Mira’s opinion, feminism, these days, has taken a drastic turn which is both aggressive and destructive in nature. “Feminism isn’t woman versus man. It’s about equality. A new wave of feminism has come that is aggressive… I feel it’s destructive. There’s a new term called ‘feminazi’, which is the female equivalent of a chauvinist. I think there should be harmony between the two sexes and equilibrium,” she insists.
Rajput may have had the best of intentions and did not mean to hurt anyone’s sentiments but the fact that some working mothers are sole breadwinners in their families cannot be overlooked.
Mira sure needs to use more dignified examples and if she is talking about her choice of being a homemaker, please consider the fact that not all the mothers in the world are married to rich and famous celebrities and that they have to work hard to fulfill their child’s wishes. Also, there is a term called ‘independently ambitious women’ and their choice is just as justified.
A little work on sentence construction will take you places, Mira.
Watch her full interview here:
