K'taka Min Schooled For Claiming Modern Women Want To Stay Single & Want Children By Surrogacy
Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar courted controversy by claiming that modern Indian women want to stay single. The minister was quickly bashed on social media for his medieval remarks where people schooled to get over patriarchy and slammed him for making such comments.
Karnataka Health Minister Dr K Sudhakar, courted controversy by claiming that modern Indian women want to stay single, are unwilling to give birth even after marriage, and desire children by surrogacy.
¡°Today, I am sorry to say this, lots of modern women in India want to stay single. Even if they get married, they don¡¯t want to give birth. They want surrogacy. So there is a paradigm shift in our thinking, which is not good,¡± he said during the World Mental Health Day at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurological Sciences (NIMHANS).
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However, the minister was quickly bashed on social media for his medieval remarks, where people schooled to get over patriarchy, and slammed him for making such comments about women on World Mental Health Day.
Why is it his concern? Let people do what they want to do. How can one sustain a family when Petrol, diesel, gas, electricity, food grains are so expensive. Horrible roads, horrible healthcare, expensive education. What do you expect?
¡ª Vikram Gowda (@VikramG69932204) October 10, 2021
The cost of living your govt is increasing on rocket speed.. LPG, vehicle cost, fuel, cooking oil, groceries, bus & train fares, etc.. Litrellay everyone needs to stay single @mla_sudhakar @BJP4Karnataka @BJP4India
¡ª Darshan Babu P (@Darshan_B_P) October 11, 2021
Focus in the betterment of country and particularly Karnataka and FYI it¡¯s none of your business how a woman wants to choose to live¡.
¡ª meghana2910 (@meghana29101) October 11, 2021
Sad to see that once again a woman is blamed for the problems in society, as if men do not play any important role at all. How many times has this minister praised women & passed on credit when they have excelled? He is portraying that men r of loving nature while women r not.
¡ª ????? ????? ?? (@victimofpeace) October 11, 2021
Just another cis straight man spewing bullshit on mental health day. https://t.co/XBpzOd0kzg
¡ª Ragamalika (@rgmlk) October 10, 2021
Why is this a minister's problem? Whether women want to be single or not or give birth or not is a personal choice. A politician need not speak about it.
¡ª Shirish Koyal (@KoyalShirish) October 11, 2021
This is patriarchy. This is the real face of RSS/BJP.#StopPatriarchy
https://t.co/w4xbPNx161
I am sorry but Mr Minister what makes you say what some women want these days is "bad" or it is the "western influence" or that she is "modern". Please start respecting the wishes of women even if it is not the mainstream thinking yet. https://t.co/oWhrEesoJs
¡ª sherryrawla (@sherryrawla) October 10, 2021
Lamenting the ¡°western influence¡± on Indian society, the Minister said people are not willing to let their parents be with them.
¡°Unfortunately, today we are going in a western way. We don¡¯t want our parents to live with us, forget about grandparents being with us,¡± the minister said.
Speaking about mental health in India, Sudhakar said every seventh Indian has some kind of mental issue, which could be mild, moderate, and severe.
However, according to him, stress management is an art and Indians need not have to learn but preach to the world how to handle it.
¡°Stress management is an art. This art we need not learn as Indians. We need to preach to the world how to handle stress, because yoga, meditation, and Pranayama are the wonderful tools that our ancestors had taught the world thousands of years back,¡± he said.
