A social media influencer, content creator and actor, Kusha Kapila recently shared that she and her husband, Zorawar Singh Ahluwalia, have mutually decided to separate. Both of them shared the same official statement, both of them turned off their comments section, and both of them said nothing about why they were separating.
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Yet, it is Kusha Kapila, and not Zorawar, who is being shamed online to such an extent that she started trending on Twitter. It goes on to show that in cases of separation and divorce, our patriarchal society will always come together to blame the woman.
Comments indicating that success has clouded her conscience and judgement raided her other posts on Instagram. People claimed that it’s after getting exposed to money, fame and the glamour world that Kusha decided to “leave her husband”. She was is being abused, slammed and trolled on social media to a very disgusting level.
Even tweets like these started surfacing online.
Starts making videos on Instagram and YouTube
Gets famous
Starts earning more than the husband
Leave the husband
Just a normal life of a feminist#KushaKapila https://t.co/cMp5Bq0cq5— BJ (@Bcci_7) June 27, 2023
This has been happening for a long time,not just today.When a woman becomes more famous and wealthy than her husband,she leaves him or divorces him.. #KushaKapila
— भाई साहब (@Bhai_saheb) June 27, 2023
Kushakapila has parted ways with her husband after years of being in a relationship and marriage. Don’t want to judge but typical feminist type who tasted success on Instagram as an influencer, stepped into Bollywood, bought house in Mumbai and then ditched husband🤐
— Bella (@runjhunmehrotra) June 26, 2023
Actually, a woman getting shamed for separating from her husband is nothing new in our society. A patriarchal setup will never accept a woman who earns more, is more popular, and is more successful than her husband. She stands against everything that a patriarchal society believes in and wishes to perpetuate. She is a threat.
And hence, she is abused, harassed, slammed and brought down. She is the one who is questioned, never the husband. This practice reeks of sexism and is downright sickening.