Twinkle Khanna reacts on the TVF molestation incident. Here’s what she says

She is an actress-wife of an A-List Bollywood actor, interior designer, a writer and a producer. Twinkle Khanna has donned multiple hats with extreme ease and her Mrs Funnybones books are a hit with the sassy humour intact. She has never shied away from expressing her strongest of viewpoints on a public platform. (Also Read: Twinkle Khanna is Akshay Kumar’s ‘Mast Mast’ girl forever)

So, when she was asked about the recent TVF row where the CEO of The Viral Fever was accused of molesting women at the workplace, she had the most vocal and honest opinions about the whole incident where she took digs at him and to all those men eyeing women at the workplace.

When Arunabh Kumar quoted to a popular daily, “I am a heterosexual single man and when I find a woman sexy, I tell her she is sexy. I compliment women, is that wrong?”, Twinkle Khanna replied in a TOI column by saying, “‘Sexy’ is an acceptable compliment within a work environment only if she is a stripper and you are her pimp trying to boost her confidence before she takes the stage.”

She also narrated an incident where she too wasn’t spared and how disturbing it could get for a normal working woman. She wrote, “A few years ago, a message on my phone reduced me to tears in the car. I had reached the breaking point after months of suggestive messages from a wealthy, powerful client that I had been pretending not to understand because all I wanted to do was to complete the project in a professional manner. And so I ended up as a statistic — the 38% of women who faced sexual harassment at work, according to a survey done by the Indian National Bar association. I am a fairly assertive woman, and married to a man who onscreen punches holes in walls with his bare fists and yet I haven’t been spared, so I shudder to think about what happens to the vast majority of working women.”

She has a piece of advice for these kind of men as she says, “Respectfully ask her out for a drink, and if she refuses your polite offer then go and drown your sorrows in that very drink and leave her alone. Do not stalk her, touch her, send her lewd messages and emails. And as far as compliments go, try telling her about her great presentation skills, her way with numbers, her astute negotiations. Telling a woman she is sexy in the bedroom is fine, telling her the same thing in the boardroom is simply deplorable. So think before you croak or it may just be your turn to be doused in formaldehyde and dissected next.” Woah! Well put words lady.

Prajakta Ajgaonkar

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