Sonam Kapoor
Sonam Kapoor comes clean on the meat ban row…
Nayandeep Rakshit (DNA; September 24, 2015)

Sonam Kapoor prefers to be real rather than measured in her interactions with fans on social networks and that’s probably why she finds herself getting into arguments with all sorts of trolls. But she remains adamant about voicing out her opinions.

With the beef ban in Maharashtra, the nationwide porn ban and now, the temporary meat ban — there have been many bans that have plagued the country in the last few months. Sonam took to Twitter to talk about the country’s habit of banning things and blamed it on the ‘intolerant misogynistic close-minded few’. While Sonam was talking about bans in general, she faced a Twitter outburst with the Twitterati trolling her.

Did that affect the actress? “Initially, I felt ‘Why are people saying these things to me?’ But then I realised that half of them were standing up for me as well, so I knew I wasn’t wrong,” she shrugs. It all happened because of the one word she used in her tweet: misogynistic. Sonam defends herself, “I am sorry but I do understand what being misogynistic means and whatever I said, I am nowhere close to being one.”

People also blamed her for having double standards, but Sonam is unaffected. “Yes, I will endorse PETA’s campaign, but that has nothing to do with what I said. For example, I personally don’t like having beef at all, but if someone who’s a guest asks for it, I won’t tell him/her that they are banned from entering my house. You have no right to control someone else’s choices according to your own opinions,” she rues.

Explaining her point of view, Sonam tells us, “People didn’t understand what I actually meant to say. All I meant to say was that I didn’t stand by the ban. But that’s my opinion and I have never thrust my opinion on anybody. Everyone is allowed to have their own choices and I am not asking anyone to change their choice because of me.” The actress has repeatedly fought for equal rights for everyone. “I have always stood up against anything that I felt was wrong whether it’s the meat ban or porn ban or homophobia. All of us have the right to choose to be gay, straight, lesbian, vegetarian or non vegetarian or be vegan. No one has the right to question anybody else.”