A TikTok user dug up an interview with Obaid-Chinoy claiming she likes to make men uncomfortable. They actually made videos where he said, “I like to make men feel comfortable. I like to make men feel uncomfortable. It's important to be able to look a man in the eye and say, I'm here and acknowledge that and I recognize that I'm working to bring something that makes you uncomfortable and it should make you uncomfortable because you have to change your attitude.”
They then overlaid that clip with comments about her work on “Star Wars,” claiming that “Star Wars” was somehow ruined again.
This felt quite disingenuous and flat Snopes had to participate in the fact-checking action. Obaid-Chinoy made this observation in 2015, almost a decade ago, in a forum where she was discussing her work. Prior to this exchange, a clip from her 2012 TV show “Ho Yaqeen” was played, which was about the mistreatment of women in Pakistan, including brick kiln workers in the Pakistani province of Punjab who had suffered severe physical and sexual abuse. Watching the forum and the context of the quote, it is obvious that she was referring to the kind of men who would watch her documentaries and commit such heinous acts.
Any thinking and enlightened person would agree that such people must to feel uncomfortable about their actions.
