Kangana Ranaut recently decided to tell women what her “true nature” is. Support of the Governor of Uttar Pradesh Anandiben Patel’s comment Women should learn to cook first and become “expert mothers”, Kangana wrote, adding that nutrition is not something women need to learn. This is something that God has already provided to them.

he remembered his childhood with pride. While her brother played football and cricket, she would make doll houses, sew clothes and cook food for her dolls. He suggested that this was evidence that women are born nurturers.

The problem is not that Kangana likes cooking or that she values ​​motherhood. It is not that he enjoys parenting. Millions of women do this. The problem begins when a woman’s individual choice is presented as the natural destiny of every woman. Because Kangana did exactly that.

What needs to be understood here: Once you declare nutrition to be a woman’s “true nature”, you are not celebrating women but defining them.

For decades, patriarchy has survived on a simple idea: Women are naturally better at caregiving, sacrifice, emotional labor, and domestic work. So let’s assign them the roles they “need” to do, and let’s use the same logic by keeping them away from the outside world. An extremely unequal social system was sold to women as a matter of biology, instinct, culture, tradition, and even divinity.

Kangana’s latest post reiterates the same idea.

The irony is that this is the same woman who built her career by refusing to accept society’s definition of what a woman should be. The Kangana Ranaut we’ve come to know and celebrate over the years looks like this:

• The woman who took on the Bollywood boys’ club when very few dared to do so.
• The woman who questioned why powerful men decide which stories will be told and which female actors deserve meaningful roles.
• The woman who spoke about the pay gap in the industry.
• The woman who objected to women being reduced to glamorous props in films.
• The woman who started her own production house because she wanted more female-centric stories.
• The woman who repeatedly told women to stop waiting for permission.

If you are one of those who have followed the lady with her sharp tongue and sharp wit, you will know what we are talking about. That’s why his latest comments sound not like an opinion but a painful contradiction.

Remember what Kangana once told women? “What you do and who you are is more important than who you marry.” He told women that their identity does not begin or end with marriage. There was a feeling of freedom in this.

Then the second one was: “No one is coming to save you.” Again, powerful. Because it encouraged women to become emotionally and financially independent.

She also said, “We need to encourage our women to be themselves, not try to box them in and fit them.” Read it again.

Are they trying to fit into boxes? Isn’t that really what happens when we tell women that their true nature is to nurture? When we say they are born to cook, to mother, to sacrifice? The irony is hard to ignore.

Her strongest observation was when she said: “Glory to the sisters, the mothers, as the selfless Indian woman who ‘willAcid test‘And who sees her own well-being only in the well-being of her husbands and fathers. This has got to stop. This is very regressive.”

what changed? What happened between that Kangana and this Kangana? Because these two women cannot exist in the same sentence. Either women should not be forced into predetermined roles or they should.

Either womanhood is about choice or about duty. It cannot be both. Let’s also be clear about Anandiben Patel’s comments.

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He did not just say that everyone should know how to cook. Cooking is a life skill. Every adult, regardless of gender, should know how to feed himself. That was never the issue. The issue was hierarchy. That women should first become “expert mothers”, whether they become teachers or IAS officers. That the primary preparation of the daughter should be for marriage and in-laws. And his identity must pass through domesticity before ambition.

Let’s not suppress these as harmless cultural values. These are expectations. And expectations become pressure. Pressure becomes a crime. Guilt becomes unpaid labor that generations of women have silently carried.

This is why Kangana’s support matters. She is not just one celebrity with a different opinion. That is Kangana Ranaut. She knows what it means to defy expectations. She became one of the most powerful women in Indian cinema because she refused to behave the way the industry expected her to. He is now a Member of Parliament.

People don’t just consume his films anymore. They listen to his politics. The words of someone with that kind of influence are no longer personal opinions. They become social beliefs.

She is validating an age-old idea despite knowing better. It is not difficult for anyone to understand why confining women into predefined gender roles is problematic. But when Kangana is not able to understand this then it is very disappointing.

Again, there is nothing wrong with choosing motherhood or loving your family. There is absolutely nothing wrong with cooking or nutrition. The feminist demand has never been that women should reject these things. It’s always been this way: let women choose.

Stop telling women that they need to fit into a certain role because God says so, because biology supposedly demands it or because society expects it of them. Let them accept a role because they have decided to do so.

The strange thing is that Kangana Ranaut’s argument was also the same.