Intimacy isn't just sex: Osman Khalid Butt schools troll

Butt responded to a social media user who accused actors of using pathetic excuses to get physical with female actors

It's not easy being on the right side of a discussion. And Osman Khalid Butt sure knows about this. The actor has received his fair share of criticism for speaking out his mind on social media. So when he responded to a recent comment by Zahid Ahmed in which the latter said that Pakistani television is okay with showing violence but not intimacy, the Ehd-e-Wafa star received a message from a social media user who alleged that the actors use this as a “pathetic excuse to get physical with female actors”.

“We can slap women on TV but can’t show intimacy,” the Ishq Zahe Naseeb star had said in a recent interview. Butt shared his peer's statement with jibed, “Strange indeed.”

One of the users took to the actor's DMs and messaged, “Just a pathetic excuse to get physical with female actors. Not to mention the influence it has on society and especially on young children and teens.”

In his quintessential way, Butt decided to school the troll and explained to him a thing or two. “Intimacy is just not sex. Yeah, so reactions like this are wholly predictable,” said Butt.

He went on to add, “First off: intimacy is not just sex. Secondly, I’d rather my child see a healthy intimate relationship between fictional spouses than, you know, physical abuse being normalised.”

“The nerve to talk about ‘influence’,” he concluded.

Recently, the Diyar-e-Dil actor addressed the Pakistani society’s obsession with criticism, anti-feminism and meaningless categorisation of anything remotely ‘vulgar’ as 'liberal' as per their understanding.

"No one has ever been able to define to me what Pakistani culture really is," said Butt, smirking. "I remember being young and doing folk dances — Sindhi, Balochi. I used to take part in all my annual school functions. No one ever said you're distorting our cultural and moral fabric,” he added.

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