Hania Aamir is a lot of things. She’s an award-winning actress, she’s a prominent voice for women’s rights and she’s also… tired of society’s disdain for empowered women.

In a rant posted on her Instagram account, Aamir said she had been suffering from self-doubt recently and decided to take some time off to rethink her life and her career.

After weeks of trying to figure out what’s wrong, she said she was hit with a stunning realisation: “People just hate happy women.”

Aamir was of the opinion that women living their best lives tend to be dragged and bullied by strangers on the internet and entertainment industry colleagues alike. “The hate is not good for women,” she sounded off. She was quick to point out that it wasn’t only men doing this women were also guilty of unnecessarily criticising other women.

The Kabhi Main Kabhi Tum actor explained that people have a problem with audacious women who dared live beyond the validation of others.

“Of course she’s hated on, because, how dare [she] not fit into the mould that we have for [her] in our brain?” she said. Aamir ended her rant with a message for the world: “Stop gaslighting and bullying people in general to water themselves down and their personalities. Let them be whoever they are.”