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Watch Arbaaz Khan’s Obtuse Attempt At Defending Salman’s Insentive “Rape” Analogy!

byDebanjan Dhar
22nd June 2016
2 minute read

Salman Khan, with one statement, has proved that hitting your head against the wall might be more productive than expecting anything sensible or responsible from him. The sheer nonchalance from the actor’s part simply puts across a message that people like him, the influential ones, will do or say whatever they want while we could do absolutely nothing but take it down like sitting ducks.

However, probably fearing a bad start for Sultan owing to the “raped woman” comments by Salman Khan, his family and friends have been talking to the media on his behalf.

First, Salim Khan apologized on behalf of his 50-year-old son’s insensitive comments.

 

 

 

 

Now, Arbaaz Khan commented that saying “I feel like a raped woman” is as harmless as “I have been working like a donkey” and the entire hue and cry over Salman’s statement is unnecessary!

 

Here’s what Arbaaz says in the clip uploaded by NDTV:

“There are certain things which we say while talking and it is important to see the intention with which it was said. There is no doubt that whatever Salman said, the intention was not wrong. It was a comparison quite akin to someone saying there was a huge mountain on my shoulders or I worked like a donkey. Now, will the usage of the word ‘donkey’ make animal activists upset? Sometimes, certain things you say are out of context and the meaning which is not bad. But if you become over sensitive over it, then it will become a controversial issue. I am sure Salman must have realized the comparisons that he made was not maybe appropriate and for that if he feels the need to apologize, he will apologise or not apologise, it’s up to him. I don’t think it is fair if I say he has to apologize or not.”

 

If drawing a rape metaphor and a donkey metaphor sounds like the same petty manner of speech to Sir Arbaaz Khan, if he’s so obtuse to realise that such reckless comments from someone as influential as Salman Khan only trivializes, or even encourages, if you will, the perilous misogyny that leads to torture against women, then it’s pretty futile to expect any reason from him.

Video Source: NDTV

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