London, Nov. 11 (TNS): Mahira has once again come out against the culture of blaming the woman for being harassed, weeks after the actress broke her silence on the Ranbir picture controversy, British media reported.
“It doesn’t matter what I wear or how I speak,” a resolute Mahira told BBC World News when asked the reason why women in the entertainment industry face harassment.
“It doesn’t matter how I conduct myself or what I wear or how I speak or where I sit or what I do. That does not allow anybody to harass me,” she said.
Mahira strongly disputed the notion that that a woman or her conduct invites harassment.
“So I am not going to say I had a ‘good conduct’ or a ‘certain conduct’, and that’s the reason I did not harassed. No, that would be the wrong answer,” she added.
She went on to criticise the pattern of abuse by powerful men, saying that from what she has seen and read, most women facing harassment are young and vulnerable.
“I have been lucky with the people I’ve worked with,” she said when asked the reason she has never faced such a situation, adding that she was not young and vulnerable when she started working.
“I started working after I became a mother, so maybe I was not at that age, or vulnerable,” she opined.
