Actor Vijay on twitter issue : Everyone should embrace womanhood

For those unaware of the happenings in the twitterverse, journalist Dhanya Rajendran, editor-in-chief of The News Minute, was subject to the wrath of actor Vijay's fans over the weekend when she put out a tweet in disfavor of his film Sura (The tweet has now been deleted). The issue escalated when the trolls started turning into abuses and an unparlimentary hashtag was trended in her name, following which the Rajendran resorted to the help of the cyber crime and the issue made it to the headlines of various media houses. 

Rajendran & co. demanded that actor Vijay come forward to put an end to this whole fiasco and after several debates from various sides on whether or not Vijay should be held responsible for this, the actor has come forward with an official statement. It reads:

Thalapathy Vijay's announcement :

I give a lot of respect to women in the society. Freedom of speech entitles anyone to criticize anyone's movie. In my opinion, women should not be criticized with slander or derogation for any reason, at any time. 

Everyone should embrace womanhood. I request to not send out messages aimed at hurting someone, with wrong opinion about women, on social media platforms.