Vijay's Women's Day Message: Insincere. Ignorant. Unhelpful.

Vijay's rhetoric for Women's Day:

I am so flattered coz Thalapathy considers me as his mother, sister, friend, aunty, and onnu veetu chiththi (distant aunty). 

Waiting for Vijay and men to respect me and women because we are their fellow human beings.

Not because we are their mothers, sisters, or aunties.

In case Vijay na haven't heard, Tamilnadu men already sexualized sisters (akka).

And mothers (MILF) and aunts (Aunty Veriyan). So, yeah, his "consideration of women as his mother and sister and friend (girl bestie = friends with benefits)" only evokes a weird feeling for us women.

Nothing will change for Tamilnadu women da. DMK can't bring change. TVK can't bring change in 2026. Mudiyathu da. (It's impossible.)

Because all of them got the fundamentals wrong - especially Thalapathy. 

"We're following Periyar's ideology for women!" ~ Thalapathy Vijay's claim.

If that old man was around, he'd chase all of you with his walking stick for not acknowledging, apologizing, and correcting the core. The core is the misogynistic, moral-policing message Thalapathy preached to generations for decades through his movies.

I'm a 90s kid. The damage has been setting in way before this scene in Sivakasi. 

Ever since Thalapathy entered politics, I've been waiting for him to acknowledge the brain rot ideology he's been feeding his fans - at least apologize for perpetuating misogyny, planting hypocrisy, and strengthening purity culture and "ideal femininity" for women. That will pave the way for better treatment of women - as a lot of young Tamil men look up to Vijay.

Alas! So, let me catch what Vijay failed, movie by movie. I'll start with Sivakasi.

"Even if you're all covered in saree, your behavior isn't "ponnu madhiri (ladylike), it's like a bajari (shrew)." ~ Sivakasi to Hema.

Though unknowingly, the message that someone's dress doesn't determine their character is delivered, that's not how it's taken. I have a very feminine appearance - men approach me for it. Out comes my Sorna Akka character and those men react how Thalapathy reacts in this scene.

The message is clear: "Ladies should be ladies as dictated by patriarchy no matter what they wear and look like." Boldness, opinion, straightforwardness, and outspokenness will be shamed!" 

"Women fall in love with men who slut-shame, moral police, and declare love in a demeaning, disrespectful way."

Tamil men only know how to troll and vilify women with their heads in the clouds, who like "bad, rough boys." Their heroes who play such roles, influencing women are exonerated. And Thalapathy didn't bother righting his cinematic norms that go against Periyar's ideology he claims adherence to as a politician.

Body shaming and transgender shaming - these are staple in Thalapathy's filmography.

In Sivakasi, our friend Vijay shames overweight ladies and acts disgusted at transgender women. He continued both in Thirupachi and Bigil. Once entering politics, our friend got amnesia - now he's promising safety for women from the very mouth that uttered scripts shaming womxn for their size and female traits.

Our friend was one of the actors who were body shamed when they were younger.

Then they go on to body shame women in their movies. Leave Dhanush - our friend is in politics so social responsibility weighs on him more. The past is still influencing the present. Looks like our friend is enabling a same future with his empty rhetoric for Women's Day.

Women are so dumb, they fall in love with their aggressor. Women don't read a letter a man gives them. They jump gun by going to the police or rebuking the man who gave it to them, being narcissistic Karens. 

Thalapathy went to Dr Anitha's funeral. Didn't the portrayal of women in his films prick his heart when he heard about her academic excellence despite impecuniosity? Does he have a conscience as a politician upholding Periyarism?

After talking about equality by law, Vijay na speaks logic about reversing police brutality on women (which happens anyway - Viduthalai 1 and Jai Bheem show it).

Then he forgets all about "equality" and says the policewoman is after all a woman, while the alleged criminal is a man. What bro? This is wrong bro. 

The movie Youth is another of Vijay na's "shit-pie" - the song Sakkarai Nilavu's singular message is that a woman rejecting a man's "sincere love" is a cruel, heartless biatch.

It won't be wrong to say that Vijay's choice of plots in films influenced films released afterward where other heroes kept villainizing women for rejecting, leaving, and not loving them. They self certify as "da goodest bois" and then curse women for not choosing them. What's so good about that Vijay na? Can you hear me? And you talk about women's safety. Hmm...

"You have mutual likes with me. But you don't like me?" Vijay na, having mutual likes doesn't mean people should be in a relationship.

Just because a guy who likes me also likes briyani as much as I do, it doesn't mean that I have to reciprocate his feelings for me.

Right before Thalapathy lectured that men have self-respect too to a policewoman in Sivakasi, he falls in love with his molester in Youth.

Instead of dragging her to the police station for kissing him without consent, or at least express displeasure, he falls in love with her. Then he uses that non-consensual kiss to argue that she should have thanked him instead of kissing him, insisting that men take non-consensual kiss as love. How big of an irony!

If it was a woman who was kissed by a drugged man she saves from thugs, would it make sense if she behaves like Vijay in Youth? Combine this idiocy with Tamil men's sex starvation and you have Tamil men saying, "Why didn't I have a teacher like this?" at news of female teachers sexually abusing their minor male students.

Guess what scene is this? The template is from a YouTube snippet from the movie Youth - uploaded in 2024. Male 2K kids are spitting fire at this scene where Thalapathy demeans women. 

Apparently, if it's not for motherhood, women are waste. He also glorifies Indian moms' overwork and gender roles as "love from mom."

Thalapathy glorifies men not moving on from breakup - men commiting s*icide after breakup is something contemptible, not a great thing men do.

Oh please! Don't build Taj Mahal or die for the love men have for us. By all means, find another woman to love. You know, just like you move to other women to bother with "Hi, WYD, Saptiya?" after one woman blocks you.

Says, "Only men love sincerely - we live and die for love. A nanosecond later, says that girls only love bad men who impregnate them, friend-zoning the men who love sincerely.

Up to this day in 2025, these hypocritical dialogues are uttered by men - the impact is multigenerational and transgenerational. With Thalapathy's hollow Women's Day message, this will continue even if he becomes CM in 2026. Unless, he apologizes and makes it right.

I can go on and on. Though released in the 90s and early 2000s, Vijay's movies continue to shape the psyche of Tamil men.

Clearly, Thalapathy doesn't care a damn about women. His intention is to attack the ruling party and win women's votes, not women's safety and respect as human beings. 

Unfortunately, many women fall for his "mom, sis, nanbi" sentiments. They either don't have the critical sense to understand the misogyny in his movies and its effects in real life - or, they simply don't care because he sang "Singa Penne."

"Bigil is a movie for women empowerment - Singa Penne!" In the climax, the women football players sport their coach's name on their jerseys, not their names.

This is exactly how our friend's Women's Day message is - our identities are his mother, sister, and friend, not the uniquely capable individuals we are.

MGR didn't apologize for the misogyny in his movies when he became Tamil Nadu's Chief Minister. Rajinikanth, who eyed the CM post didn't apologize either.

Thalapathy Vijay is just riding in the same boat. Women's safety and men's accountability will continue to be a question mark when/if Vijay becomes CM. Udhayanidhi Stalin is another culprit. Nothing will change unless these men in power at least realize their mistakes and use their influence to rectify them.