At the Global Education & Skills Forum (GESF) in Dubai on Saturday, Priyanka Chopra shut down a reporter for asking a ridiculous question and owned the moment like a boss.
PeeCee is a staunch feminist and is known to speak her mind on all occasions. She has tackled ludicrous questions on more than one instance with utmost ease and confidence in the past as well.
At GESF, she talked about the importance of education which is one of the causes very close to her heart. She has been very actively associated with the UNICEF and was recently named their global ambassador as well. She used the platform to talk about education as a “basic human right that cannot be denied to any child in the world.”
She also talked about “teaching children to be global children.” PeeCee said, “We are still bound by borders and geography. We have forgotten our humanity. The need of the hour is to teach them to think about humanity over whose God is better or which country is better.”
The moment that left everyone applauding came during the press conference, when Priyanka very swiftly gave a valuable life lesson to a reporter through her answer.
A reporter came forward and asked, ‘Why is it that a feminist never takes a stand for a man who is physically abused?’ Not to forget that the journalist was specifically talking about a man who ‘teases a woman’. He then tried to rationalize that by saying that if a man slaps a woman, it’s considered a crime but it is not the same when the case is reversed.
“I’m loving this question, bring it. This is epic,” Priyanka said as her face lit up with a smile that suggested that she was all set to slay him with the answer.
“Physiologically men and women are different. There is no debate about it. When we talk about equality and opportunity, we talk about cerebral opportunity. We are not saying we want to able to be like a 200-pound man and beat the shit out of somebody else. We are not saying that. We are saying you give the ability to get the job, to be the CEO and nobody questions when you’re driven at 50 and have three children, how you are managing, don’t question me at all. That’s what I am saying. I can be a CEO and a mother. So when a girl slaps a man who teases her, he deserves it,” answered Priyanka.
How curious it is that when women are just learning to stand up for themselves and teach the ones who harass them a lesson, people have already started building arguments to suppress it. Priyanka has a valuable advice and warning right there in her answer for all the men out there who can’t take the idea of a woman slapping a man despite him teasing or abusing her. So, yes, when a woman slaps a man who teases her he definitely deserves it, always will and no ludicrous argument can change that.
H/T: The Quint
