Our society has the tendency to put women on a pedestal and say that their love knows no bounds and duty knows no end. Women are often expected to take care of the family even when they are sick or tired, which can be unfair.
I say this because a picture of a woman cooking in the kitchen while on oxygen support went viral online. Her son had posted the picture on social media and wrote, “Unconditional love = mother. She is never off duty.”
Wtf is this shit?
Let the woman rest jeez. pic.twitter.com/hnj2qRQyvp— Navin Noronha 🌈🐼 (@HouseOfNoronha) May 21, 2021
As a screenshot of the post went viral on Twitter, several people online slammed the guy for glorifying the woman’s condition. Many said that since the woman is on oxygen support, she most probably needed to rest but was made to work through her misery.
We are so used to glorifying working through misery in this country. It’s sickening.
— Navin Noronha 🌈🐼 (@HouseOfNoronha) May 21, 2021
While there were some who tried to justify that either the children couldn’t cook or that others in her family might be suffering from an ailment as well, others didn’t entertain the idea.
I guess the children don’t know how to cook so they asked their ailing mother..how are we supposed to react to this
— 𝓝𝓪𝓪𝓶 𝓶𝓮 𝓴𝔂𝓪 𝓻𝓪𝓴𝓱𝓪 𝓱𝓪𝓲𝓷 🏹🏹 (@dillisehun) May 21, 2021
If they can use the internet to post this shit, then they can also use the internet to learn how to cook.
If their hands are functional enough to click this picture, caption it and post it, they can help too.
Im sick of people glorifying women’s misery as “unconditional love”!
— Freida Maggi Khalo🏳️🌈 (@yadudewhatever) May 21, 2021
It takes a special sort of jerk to not only have their wife/mother cook for them as she is gasping for air, but to share it on social media and gloat about it.
This sadly sums up the atrocities women have to endure in patriarchal societies—in the name of “unconditional love.”
— Bae (@BaeSaysHey) May 21, 2021
I realize this is most likely staged for virality, but anyone who equates this with unconditional love should never be any relationship whatsoever.
We need to promote mothers’ self-care as love for the family, after all only she is healthy and well can she be there with them.
— Chhavi (@chhavi96) May 21, 2021
Typical. Make women goddesses, put them on a pedestal and work them to the bone coz *WoMEn cAN tAke iT*
— CoconutAndChill (@Pratyus71168172) May 21, 2021
Glorifying women’s misery ,sacrifice and pain is a norm in our country… “She is never off duty ” has been said proudly often in our society… The reality is you never gave a chance to her being off duty 🥺
— ऋचा प्रधान (@pradhan_rich) May 21, 2021
Holy fuck … How in the hell would you let a woman work in this condition ? And what audacity to promote this ?
— Anusha (@nush_nush19) May 21, 2021
The people in that house are monsters. She is cooking while on oxygen and instead of letting her rest, these idiots took a picture, posted it and went on about their lives.
— Arjun Krishnamurthy (@Arjun_K6) May 21, 2021
I don’t have problem with this only if every single member of the family is tested positive and in the same situation.
If not take her to bedroom and let her take rest.
— Abhishek C Raveendra (@AChindaluri) May 21, 2021
Indian men act like they are vegetative when it comes to cooking.Also glorifying how pathetic they are by making the mom an idol because she was born to sacrifice for her family and kids. What about common sense, she most definitely has covid, the oxygen cylinder is near the gas.
— Sakshi Narula (@mssakshinarula) May 21, 2021
The more we normalise women working through pain and illness for their family and equate it with ‘love’, the more will it be impossible for women to express a possible desire to catch a break and rest, even when she desperately needs it.