People Slam Mukesh Khanna For Saying #MeToo Problem Began After Women Stepped Out To Work

"Problem kaha se shuru hue hai #MeToo ki jab aurato nein bhi kaam karna shuru kar diya"

Just like how every male chauvinist blames women for all bad experiences and crimes against them, veteran actor Mukesh Khanna also did the same. But what was shocking was -- this coming out from our childhood superhero that we idolized.

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"You are no Shaktiman," soon people slammed him on social media with such remarks. What he said was sad and a classic example of toxic mentality.

He blamed women for the rise in sexual harassment cases against them and said that women are only meant to do household work.

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"Aurat ki rachna alag hoti hai aur mard ki alag hoti hai. Aurat ka kaam hai ghar sambhalna. Problem kaha shuru hui #MeToo ki? Jab auraton ne bhi kaam karna shuru kar diya. Aaj aurat aadmi ke sath kandhey se kandha milane ni baat karti hai. Problem yahi se shuru hoti hai. Sabse pehle jo member suffer karta hai woh ghar ka bachcha suffer karta hai jisko maa nahi milti," he told The Filmy Charcha in an interview.

Actor turned right wing rabble rouser Mukesh Khanna says women going out to work and thinking of being equal to men is cause of #metoo pic.twitter.com/1sZ37GudTy

¡ª Hindutva Watch (@Hindutva__watch) October 30, 2020

And hell broke loose thereafter!

The best and worst part of social media is seeing your childhood heros fail so miserably. Fuck you shaktimaan. https://t.co/xVYGBn1St4

¡ª P J (@poojavj06) October 30, 2020

Mukesh Khanna is the cautionary tale of how living in the past glory can be dangerous. His attention-seeking words reek of desperation .He wants to get validated by more misogynistic men & be hailed as a hero that he never was. Media needs to stop normalising such sexist men

¡ª Rudrani Chattoraj (@rudrani_rudz) October 31, 2020

Men with mentality like #MukeshKhanna is the reason why #Metoo happens. #Shame https://t.co/eB1hbI88qx

¡ª Adv Mumtaz Begum (@i_am_mumtaz) October 30, 2020

Childhood ruined ??...the superhero actor says #MeToo started with woman wanting to go out and work equally and parallel to man in all walks of life#Shaktimaan #mukeshkhanna
Misogyny+ patriarchy is so vicious https://t.co/CHG1W1Xyax

¡ª Ravi Dundigalla (@ravi_dundigalla) October 30, 2020

Mukesh khanna...I served as a SDM , Was civil servant former IAS officer first reached our level then do oral Diarrhoea
Shaktimaan is actually Bhaktimaan https://t.co/4mxyDTI7Xa

¡ª ???? ????? (@iamNitiPatel) October 30, 2020

This man is SICK. In short, if women will step out for work, men are entitled to sexually assault them? If women want safety, they should stay at home.

Shame on you @actmukeshkhanna! pic.twitter.com/G4bxbEFek0

¡ª Gaurav Pandhi (@GauravPandhi) October 30, 2020

Shaktiman not buddhiman at all. https://t.co/u2UfbahJb5

¡ª I am Reema ? (@iamreeemaa) October 30, 2020

First of all let me say something if mukesh khanna isn't in a red spandex with a gold outline, i don't want to hear anything he has to say and that too this shit. Matlab kuch b bolneka. Bc shaktimaan kya ban gaye khud ko superman samajhne lage. Uncle aisa nai hota. ???¡á? https://t.co/DHHVdKNppe

¡ª Hitarth (@HitarthThaker) October 30, 2020

So these to ladies Vaishnavi Mahant and Deepshikha Nagpal working is problem as per Mukesh Khanna but were praised by Shaktimaan because during Shaktimaan Mukesh Khanna wanted to make profit out of them. pic.twitter.com/BOu404qGeM

¡ª Mr.Niranjan (@NiranjanNsw) October 31, 2020

This isn't the first time he has made such a controversial comment. He had earlier had a fallout with Kapil Sharma after he called the comedian's show "vulgar and cheap".

He said this after his absence from an episode of the show that marked the reunion of Mahabharat cast. Gajendra Chauhan, who played Yudishthir in Mahabharat, had said that he was trying to gain publicity by attacking popular people. "He was a flop actor before Mahabharat. All his films had failed, which is why he turned to TV from films," he added.