Tisca Chopra Shames Women By Saying They’re ‘Just As Much To Blame’. What The Actual Fu*k?

After the Harvey Weinstein exposé shook Hollywood to its core, sexual abuse started coming out to the forefront of things. It started with women in Hollywood sharing their personal accounts of assault but soon became so much more.

Alyssa Milano took two words and gave them a new life. #MeToo included people (note: I said people and not women because assault isn’t limited to one gender) from all over the world in solidarity. With people sharing their stories the sheer number and magnitude showed society how grave a problem we’ve been ignoring for so long.

In a bid to understand the happenings of Bollywood, The Print asked the who’s who of the industry their point of view on the issue. One of whom was Tisca Chopra. The actor who is best known for her role as Ishaan Awasthi’s mother in ‘Taare Zameen Par’ had some disturbing views to share. She said,

“I’m going to be very categorical when I say that women are just as much to blame, because they put themselves in those vulnerable positions. Why do these women go to hotel rooms?”

Talking about consent Tisca said,

She further talks about how a woman sometimes says yes to the advances of these men. It then gives them the right to think that if this woman won’t do it there are always others. She also said they think they then have a choice between girls- this one and that one. And women need to stop saying yes for these choices to be available to men.

Talking about the Weinstein scandal the ‘Quissa’ actor said that Hollywood is what it is because it let someone become a blatant predator for 30 years. She said that most people try their luck and think that it can’t hurt to ask. She also said,

“Unless somebody says ‘no’, and the kind of ‘no’ you say, and the manner in which you say it should convey that it is completely unacceptable to even ask this question.”

When asked about what kind of “no” is she referring to. She blatantly said,

A tentative ‘no’, a polite ‘no’, a ‘no’ that means ‘maybe’ and worst of a ‘no’ that means ‘yes.. just push me more and I will relent’..? https://t.co/7mm4FZUBeT

— Tisca Chopra (@tiscatime) 18 October 2017

Well Tisca, there are things you have to understand before victim shaming. It is almost necessary to go to hotel rooms to meet producers, most meetings happen there. Also, any no means ‘NO’, a feeble no still means fucking no. Period.